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laviolet 24th Mar 2018		78 RPM Fats Domino - Don't You Lie To Me / Sometimes I Wonder	Billboard ad (May 5, 1951, p. 34) shows "Sometimes I Wonder" as the featured side.
laviolet 11th Mar 2018		78 RPM Jewel King - 3 X 7 = 21 / Don't Marry Too Soon	Here are both sides. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 11th Mar 2018		78 RPM Fats Domino - Hey! La Bas Boogie / Brand New Baby	Posted Imperial ad from Billboard, July 15, 1950, page 52. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 11th Mar 2018		78 RPM Fats Domino - Little Bee / Boogie Woogie Baby	Billboard review, April 29, 1950, p. 31 "Little Bee": Warbler has a highly effective delivery; combo plays with fine beat; material is novel and persuasive--a standup side in all resperts. "Boogie Woogie Baby": Jump boogie with short vocal bits swings hard.
laviolet 7th Mar 2018		78 RPM Archibald - Stack-A' Lee Part I / Stack-A' Lee Part II	Billboard review, April 29, 1950, p. 30: "A magnificent blues record. The story, steeped in old folk lore, is sung from the heart by a standout warbler, backed by a compact, clean combo led by soulful 88'ing. Hits with a haunting impact that could be as commercial as it is artistic."
laviolet 4th Mar 2018		78 RPM Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank My Beer While I Was In The Rear / Little Girl Sing Ding-A-Ling	The 45 referenced by slholzer is clearly a boot; mistitling of both sides is a dead giveaway. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 23rd Feb 2018		78 RPM Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie / Tijim	This was a promotional record for Jax Beer, a popular brand in New Orleans until the brewery closed in 1974. (The building is now a festival mall.) No A-side writer is shown; song is registered to Bartholomew in BMI but mistitled "Good Tax Boogie." Release date is approximate. See Discogs entry for B-side image. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 18th Feb 2018		CD Album The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed [50th Anniversary Edition]	Here's the video clip. On the DVD, the host's intro and outro are removed. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 17th Feb 2018		78 RPM Tommy Ridgley - Jam Up / Wish I Had Never	Billboard review, October 2, 1954 "Jam Up": A spanking beat sparks the band in a toe-tapping instrumental. Could serve as good juke filler material. "Wish I Had Never": Chanter mourns an ill-fated romance in this routine blues.
laviolet 13th Feb 2018		CD Album The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed [50th Anniversary Edition]	Review If you've been wanting to hear the original 1967 mix of Days of Future Passed on CD, your wait is now over. The only drawback is, unlike the Sgt. Pepper anniversary issue, there's no single-disc option so you'll have to buy the complete set. Bonus material includes eight studio tracks and a batch of BBC radio performances, much of which has been previously released. The DVD on disc three is the real discovery, since it contains two high quality mixes of the LP and a 16-minute clip of the band performing three songs on French TV from early 1968. You'll marvel at the primitive production compared to today but also at the rare look at the band at their peak. Highly recommended. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
laviolet 6th Feb 2018		78 RPM Tommy Ridgley - Jam Up / Wish I Had Never	Interesting ... two reviews of the same record, published the same day, with opposite sides listed first. If nothing else, this shows that reliance on the first listed side to identify the A side can be dicey. Thanks, all. "Jam Up" is Ridgley's most compiled track, remarkably because it's his only record where he doesn't sing. He never had any big national hits but made some fine records for Herald and Ric and remained a popular entertainer in New Orleans throughout his professional life.
laviolet 5th Feb 2018		78 RPM Tommy Ridgley - Jam Up / Wish I Had Never	I posted this with "Jam Up" as the A side and someone flipped the sides. The Cash Box issue of October 2, 1954 reviews the record with "Wish I Had Never" listed first, which doesn't necessarily mean it was the side Atlantic was promoting. An Atlantic ad in Billboard (January 29, 1955) mentions "Jam Up," although this was about three months after release. Does anyone have any evidence of which side was being pushed? By the way, the 45cat entry still shows "Jam Up" as the A side.
laviolet 5th Feb 2018		78 RPM Tommy Ridgley - Jam Up / Wish I Had Never	Here are both sides: [YouTube Video]
laviolet 5th Feb 2018		78 RPM Tommy Ridgley - Boogie Woogie Mama / Lonely Man Blues	Billboard review, June 3, 1950, p. 111 "Boogie Woogie Mama": Warbler does well enough on an ordinary shout boogie with jump combo backing "Lonely Man Blues": Ridgley gets conviction in a slow blues. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 30th Dec 2017		78 RPM Lloyd Glenn's Combo - Christmas Sleigh Ride / Savage Boy	The images of the Swing Time 78 show "Sleigh Ride" as the title. In its review Billboard criticized the "Christmas Sleigh Ride" title; was it then changed? After all these years, who knows.
laviolet 28th Dec 2017		78 RPM Charles Brown With Johnny Moore's Blazers - Merry Christmas Baby / Sleigh Ride	"Merry Christmas, Baby" originally released November 1947 on Exclusive 254, credited to Johnny Moore's Three Blazers. (Billboard, November 8, 1947, p. 33) "Sleigh Ride" originally released December 1951 on Swing Time 271 as "Christmas Sleigh Ride." (Billboard, December 15, 1951, p. 33)
laviolet 25th Dec 2017		78 RPM Charles Brown With Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Merry Christmas Baby / Lost In The Night	Reissue of Exclusive 254; that label folded in January 1950. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 24th Dec 2017		78 RPM Lloyd Glenn's Combo - Christmas Sleigh Ride / Savage Boy	"Christmas Sleigh Ride" was retitled to "Sleigh Ride" and later coupled with The Three Blazers' "Merry Christmas, Baby." [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 24th Dec 2017		78 RPM Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Merry Christmas, Baby / Lost In The Night	See Discogs entry for image of "Lost in the Night," where it's listed as the A side. Record is included in Billboard "Advance Record Releases" of November 8, 1947, but since titles are listed alphabetically A and B sides can't be distinguished. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 16th Dec 2017		Vinyl Album The Meters - Fire On The Bayou	Fire on the Bayou was the first Meters album with Cyril Neville, youngest of the Neville brothers, as official member. "Mardi Gras Mambo," although credited to the Meters, wasn't written by them. It's the same song recorded 20 years earlier by Art Neville's first band, the Hawketts. A longer version of "Running Fast" was released on 45 RPM as the B side of "They All Ask'd For You" and later included on CD editions.
laviolet 15th Oct 2017		78 RPM King Cole - Nature Boy / Lost April	Here's "Lost April." [YouTube Video]
laviolet 5th Oct 2017		78 RPM Smiley Lewis - Sad Life / Don't Jive Me	Here are both sides. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 4th Oct 2017		78 RPM Smiley Lewis - Where Were You / My Baby	No writer credit appears on label; both sides written by Smiley Lewis per booklet notes in compilation Smiley Lewis "Rocks" and BMI database. [YouTube Video]
laviolet 25th Jul 2017		CD Album Laura Nyro - A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection	Review Real Gone Music scores again with the first-ever CD issue of the mono versions of Laura Nyro's first two albums. More Than a New Discovery appears in the dedicated mono mix and original running order. Eli and the Thirteenth Confession appears in the fold-down mix only released in the US as a promo. As bonus tracks, we get the "alternate" single version of "Stoney End" (actually recorded before the LP version), the single edit of "Eli's Comin'," and the uptempo Bones Howe-produced single version of "Save the Country." Very good sound. Highly recommended. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] 8 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
laviolet 10th Jul 2017		CD Album Justin Hayward - Songwriter	Review Justin Hayward's 1977 LP Songwriter was first issued on CD in 1987 with two bonus tracks. The 2004 edition is the one to get, as it sports two additional tracks and much improved sound. I'm not familiar with all of Hayward's solo work, but most reviews find Songwriter his best, and it is a quite pleasant listening experience. Recommended. Note: CD notes credit Hayward as sole producer of tracks 12 and 13, but original 45 credits Hayward and Alan Leeming. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
laviolet 5th Mar 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - All These Things	This is an almost-but-not-quite reissue of the 1967 Instant LP; Ernie K-Doe's "Come on Home" (a Minit recording) replaced Aaron Neville's "For Every Boy There's a Girl" as the closing track.
laviolet 5th Mar 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - All These Things	Songwriters: Lee Dorsey, Renald Richard (B3) Chris Kenner (A3, B2) Earl King (B4, as "S. Johnson") Roger Leon Jr., Earl Oropeza, Ray Theriot (A4) Raymond Lewis (B5) Art Neville (B6) Huey Smith, Brenda Brandon (A5) Allen Toussaint (A1, A2, A6, B1) Here's an excerpt from the sleeve notes by Greg Mason, program director of WNOE radio, referring to a pompous magazine article: "... it was jarring to hear listed among the NEWCOMERS, names like Art Neville and Lee Dorsey. It is understandable that a song writer like Allen Toussaint might not be well known, even if Herman's Hermits (A Certain Girl), The Rolling Stones (Fortune Teller) and numerous other British groups had recorded much of his material. And admittedly Chris Kenner might be a strange name to some, even though his own original versions of “Land Of A Thousand Dances” and “I Like It Like That” were giants in R&B circles, before they became giants in the pop world when later redone by Cannibal And The Headhunters, and The Dave Clark Five respectively. But to dig these established greats as NEW artists!" In 1967, Lee Dorsey had had Top Ten hits with "Ya Ya" and "Working in the Coal Mine." Art Neville was mainly known for the local hit "All These Things" and wasn't quite an established great yet. That came with the Meters and the Neville Brothers. Allen Toussaint, of course, became very well known. The Instant label's biggest hit "I Like It Like That" is curiously absent from this compilation. Linked release on Bandy has different content; "For Every Boy There's a Girl" was replaced by Ernie K-Doe's "Come on Home," a Minit recording.
laviolet 27th Feb 2017		Vinyl Album Various Artists - All These Things	See the Cosimo Code LP page for rear cover and label scans. Neither title nor catalog number appears on label; only Cosimo's matrix numbers. Track sources: A1: Instant 3246 (original 45 edit) A2, B3: Valiant 10011 and ABC-Paramount 10192 (A2 as "Lover of Love") A3: Instant 3237 A4: Seven B 7001 (original 45 edit) A5: Instant 3279 A6, B6: Airecords 333; tracks also released in different mixes on Instant 3282 B1: Alon 9029 B2: Instant 3252 (original 45 edit) B4: Alon 9000 B5: Instant 3242 [YouTube Video]
laviolet 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM Fats Domino - Rockin' Chair / Careless Love	"Careless Love," a public domain song, carries no writer credit. This was apparently Domino's last record released exclusively on 78 RPM. Three months later, "You Know I Miss You" b/w "I'll Be Gone" was advertised as "Also Available on 45 RPM." [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
laviolet 20th Jan 2017		78 RPM Professor Longhair - Tipitina / In The Night	Here are both sides. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]

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