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Member	Item		Review/Comment
mister_tmg 26th Jun 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - The Love Of My Life / What A Day We'll Have	The b-side only credits Jack Fishman as the composer, but the sheet music also credits Joe Henderson.
mister_tmg 20th Jun 2024		Book Ronald Taylor - Columbia Twelve-Inch Records In The United Kingdom 1906-1930	Glad to say I’ve now acquired this book. Rather odd printing error in which two pages got mixed up.
mister_tmg 12th Jun 2024		78 RPM Layton And Johnstone - Moon Song / Put A Little Springtime	No, the titles are correct, although the B-side's full title is "Put A Little Springtime (In the Winter of Their Lives)". I couldn't find any trace of the record when searching online, but saw a reference to the A-side in an old newspaper cutting on Newspapers.com, with the catalogue number DB 1107. The CLPGS Columbia DB series book confirms both titles on that disc. Not sure why the disc was entered here with the catalogue number "BD." I've requested the catalogue number be corrected (would be nice if we could do these ourselves). [Corrected. mod]
mister_tmg 11th Jun 2024		78 RPM Layton And Johnstone - Moon Song / Put A Little Springtime	Seems a bit of an odd addition? No catalogue number and a BD. prefix for a Columbia record? Appears to be DB 1107.
mister_tmg 11th Jun 2024		78 RPM Reggie Goff - Song Of The Rain (Prisionero Del Mar) / Carnival Time	Interesting to see The Beaux and the Belles on record. They appeared on Ray's a Laugh, a show which had just started at the time this record came out, and were actually The Keynotes under another name.
mister_tmg 10th Jun 2024		78 RPM Turner Layton - I'll Always Love You / Trade Wind	Trade Winds, surely?
mister_tmg 31st May 2024		78 RPM Don Porto's Novelty Accordion Band - A Little Church Around The Corner / Alone With All My Memories Of You	Take 1 appears to have been used on both sides.
mister_tmg 20th May 2024		78 RPM David Whitfield - Answer Me / Dance, Gypsy, Dance	From what I can tell, the re-recorded version of this didn't actually get pressed on the UK 78. Presumably, it was just for radio and promotional use.
mister_tmg 20th May 2024		78 RPM Percy Faith - The Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is My Heart) / Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer Vigil)	Funny how this was #1 in America but didn't chart in the UK, where Mantovani had the only hit version.
mister_tmg 20th May 2024		78 RPM Dickie Valentine - Christmas Alphabet / Where Are You Tonight?	According to the Daily Herald (dated Thursday, 15 December 1955), this had sold over 200,000 copies at that point.
mister_tmg 19th May 2024		78 RPM Frankie Laine - In The Wee Small Hours / You're A Character, Dear	This was his first commercially issued 78, and features his first recordings, cut in 1945. Prague Frank's discography of Frankie Laine says the tracks were recorded in New York, although this link says the location was Hollywood. See Gold Seal website.
mister_tmg 18th May 2024		78 RPM The Stargazers - Broken Wings / Make It Soon	Marie Benson appears to have still been working into at least March 1953, so I expect she is on this record.
mister_tmg 18th May 2024		78 RPM Ted Weems - Let's Sing Again / You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes	B-side is the first commercial recording by Perry Como. This 78 was issued in the UK on Decca F.6008.
mister_tmg 11th May 2024		78 RPM Larry Page - That'll Be The Day / Please Don't Blame Me	Another British 78rpm performer who has died, aged 87.
mister_tmg 6th May 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - May I Have The Next Romance With You? / All The Time	Nice to be able to hear these sides. Thanks for uploading.
mister_tmg 29th Apr 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - May I Have The Next Romance With You? / All The Time	Thanks for adding the photos. Good to know there are at least two copies in existence! I wonder who wrote the b-side. I think Crown often used songs they had the rights to on their b-sides, so it was probably one of those. I can’t trace it.
mister_tmg 18th Apr 2024		78 RPM Layton And Johnstone - Hard Hearted Hannah / It Had To Be You	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] Both label images are on Discogs. Though I might be able to add my own scans here at some point.
mister_tmg 14th Apr 2024		78 RPM Layton And Johnstone - Hard Hearted Hannah / It Had To Be You	Does anyone have label images or a transfer of this 78?
mister_tmg 12th Apr 2024		78 RPM Mantovani - The Song From The Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart) / Vola Colomba	There was a later pressing of this record with the new Decca label design: eBay link
mister_tmg 14th Mar 2024		78 RPM Aileen Stanley - I'll Never Ask For More / Give Your Little Baby Lots Of Lovin'	Picture needs cropping.
mister_tmg 14th Mar 2024		78 RPM The Romaine Orchestra - Dear Love, My Love / Riviera Rose	Would be good to hear this record if anyone can transfer it!
mister_tmg 6th Mar 2024		78 RPM Joyce Frazer - I Went To Your Wedding / Moon Above Malaya	I would suggest eBay and Discogs.
mister_tmg 6th Mar 2024		78 RPM Various Artists - Daily Mail Mystery Record	@vinyl_junkie Thanks. There’s a copy on eBay, but without the sleeve or leaflet. I wondered how one would find out the answers now!
mister_tmg 4th Mar 2024		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. R. 13	That video isn’t from this 78, I don’t think.
mister_tmg 4th Mar 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby	It makes more sense if this was amongst a batch of old recordings being issued in 1950. You reminded me of “Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White” / “When I Grow Too Old To Dream”. The Vera Lynn discography by Tony Middleton lists those matrix numbers as unissued, with accompaniment by Roland Shaw. Yet the above record is on eBay now, and I can see that the 78 has those same matrix numbers as in the discography. The accompaniment on the 78 is by Woolf Phillips, who accompanied those same songs on the Vera Lynn Concert album at around the same time that the matrix numbers date from. It therefore seems likely that the masters used for this 78 were just taken from the live album, perhaps faded out before the applause. Woolf Phillips didn’t usually back Vera for her studio recordings, but did for that LP. It would be nice if Vera had made studio recordings of those two songs, but I doubt it was the case. I’d be interested to hear how the recordings were edited for the 78.
mister_tmg 1st Mar 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby	What’s odder is that it appears to be her only Danish release, although there could be others we don’t have listed here yet.
mister_tmg 29th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - May I Have The Next Romance With You? / All The Time	I’ve never seen a copy of this record, though I’m told it does exist. It’s featured in discography listings for Vera Lynn and the Crown label. I wonder if it’s because she switched to Rex shortly afterwards. Her first Rex recordings were made the following month, although she only cut two 78s for them. So maybe this one only had limited circulation.
mister_tmg 29th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby	Still seems odd - the recordings would have sounded quite old by 1950. I think some of Vera’s recordings were issued more than once on 78, but not years later?
mister_tmg 27th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby	Seems a bit odd to issue this over ten years after it had been recorded?
mister_tmg 26th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - The Wind Cannot Read / Every Hour, Every Day Of My Life	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]

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