mister_tmg 28th Jul 2024 | | 78 RPMThe Savoy Hotel Orpheans - The Cat And The Fiddle Gems Part 1 / The Cat And The Fiddle Gems Part 2 | [YouTube Video]
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mister_tmg 24th Jul 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumJohn Inman - Are You Being Served Sir? | Thank you Phil. I couldn’t find anything when I looked in the newspaper archives online. Pages 38-39 in that link has the advert for this album. 28 November may just refer to the Vic Lewis album? But November seems a good bet for the other releases listed.
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mister_tmg 24th Jul 2024 | | 78 RPMGeorgia Gibbs - Kiss Of Fire / A Lasting Thing | I think it's fine, probably no need to add photos of the source... :)
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mister_tmg 24th Jul 2024 | | 78 RPMConnie Francis - Freddy / Didn't I Love You Enough | No, it wasn't released as a single in the UK. Pop Music History has an MGM listing.
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mister_tmg 24th Jul 2024 | | 78 RPMGuy Mitchell - Walkin' And Wond'rin (My Heart Cries Out In Vain) / I Want You For A Sunbeam | You can see both sides here.
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mister_tmg 23rd Jul 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumJohn Inman - Are You Being Served Sir? | Great album, but does anyone have an exact release date?
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mister_tmg 17th Jul 2024 | | 78 RPMJay Wilbur - Georgia's Gotta Moon / I Got Love | Georgia’s Gotta Moon
I Got Love
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mister_tmg 9th Jul 2024 | | BookEddie Shaw - Date About All Those English Seventy-eights | You can buy a CD-ROM with scans of this book on eBay.
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mister_tmg 26th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMVera 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.
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mister_tmg 20th Jun 2024 | | BookRonald 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.
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mister_tmg 12th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMLayton 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]
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mister_tmg 11th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMLayton 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.
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mister_tmg 11th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMReggie 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.
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mister_tmg 10th Jun 2024 | | 78 RPMTurner Layton - I'll Always Love You / Trade Wind | Trade Winds, surely?
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mister_tmg 31st May 2024 | | 78 RPMDon 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.
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mister_tmg 20th May 2024 | | 78 RPMDavid 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.
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mister_tmg 20th May 2024 | | 78 RPMPercy 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.
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mister_tmg 20th May 2024 | | 78 RPMDickie 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.
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mister_tmg 19th May 2024 | | 78 RPMFrankie 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.
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mister_tmg 18th May 2024 | | 78 RPMThe 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.
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mister_tmg 18th May 2024 | | 78 RPMTed 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.
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mister_tmg 11th May 2024 | | 78 RPMLarry Page - That'll Be The Day / Please Don't Blame Me | Another British 78rpm performer who has died, aged 87.
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mister_tmg 6th May 2024 | | 78 RPMVera Lynn - May I Have The Next Romance With You? / All The Time | Nice to be able to hear these sides. Thanks for uploading.
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mister_tmg 29th Apr 2024 | | 78 RPMVera 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.
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mister_tmg 18th Apr 2024 | | 78 RPMLayton 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.
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mister_tmg 14th Apr 2024 | | 78 RPMLayton And Johnstone - Hard Hearted Hannah / It Had To Be You | Does anyone have label images or a transfer of this 78?
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mister_tmg 12th Apr 2024 | | 78 RPMMantovani - 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
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mister_tmg 14th Mar 2024 | | 78 RPMAileen Stanley - I'll Never Ask For More / Give Your Little Baby Lots Of Lovin' | Picture needs cropping.
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mister_tmg 14th Mar 2024 | | 78 RPMThe Romaine Orchestra - Dear Love, My Love / Riviera Rose | Would be good to hear this record if anyone can transfer it!
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mister_tmg 6th Mar 2024 | | 78 RPMJoyce Frazer - I Went To Your Wedding / Moon Above Malaya | I would suggest eBay and Discogs.
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