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Member	Item		Review/Comment
RadnaNotions 21st Apr 2014		78 RPM The Clovers - One Mint Julep / Middle Of The Night	LaurenceD's scans indicate they've been "edited" by DJA1969. I guess they weren't so much edited as replaced.
RadnaNotions 19th Feb 2014		78 RPM Los Beatles - Twist Y Gritos (Twist And Shout) / La Vi Parada Ahi (I Saw Her Standing There)	Maybe it's just the scan but there are some scary eyes on that sleeve - especially John's. I can't help thinking that something with a price on the cover can't be "promo only" in the sense that that designation is usually used on these sites.
RadnaNotions 30th Jan 2014		78 RPM Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Lullaby Of Broadway / The Words Are In My Heart	I couldn't possibly comment on which one is the right speed (but I agree with you). At the very least you get to my favourite bit 5 seconds earlier on my video...
RadnaNotions 29th Jan 2014		78 RPM Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Lullaby Of Broadway / The Words Are In My Heart	The A-side of this is one of my favourite records full stop. I know Glenn Miller was lurking in this band around this time. I seem to recall looking it up to check once it got to the bit at about 2:20 in the video below. Incidentally my UK Brunswick copy plays quite a lot faster than that video.
RadnaNotions 17th Jan 2014		78 RPM Billy Williams - When Father Papered The Parlour / Don't Go Out With Him Tonight	Especially since most of the early Phoenix labels I see look like this.
RadnaNotions 13th Jan 2014		78 RPM George Formby - John Willie, Come On / I Was Always A Willing Young Lad	I'm sure people knew that Formby Snr had died, but there was a lot of re-releasing of material back then. (Although admittedly that was less true by 1926 than it had been a few years earlier.) I wouldn't be surprised if a few people bought this believing they were buying the original hit by the original artist. (Like anyone who's foolishly bought a sixties compilation CD without looking closely at the sleeve notes and found arrangements awash with synths played by perms.)
RadnaNotions 12th Jan 2014		78 RPM George Formby - John Willie, Come On / I Was Always A Willing Young Lad	The song was written (and recorded) by Snr. Given that, you'd have thought they might have distinguished on the label between Snr in the writing credit and Jnr as the performer. It's almost as if they were deliberately avoiding informing the uninformed...
RadnaNotions 6th Nov 2013		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Charge De L'armée Française	You might have more luck trying to play the sleeve... Playing from the centre outwards means that you get the highest bandwidth towards the end of the record. As I recall, the thinking was that most records would build towards the finish - so they cut them in a way that suits that.
RadnaNotions 4th Nov 2013		78 RPM Dorsey Brothers And Their Orchestra - Persian Rug / Indian Cradle Song	Nice.
RadnaNotions 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Blue Jays - I'm Wild About Horns On Automobiles That Go Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta / Jericho	[YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 28th Sep 2013		78 RPM Henry Hall - Teddy Bears' Picnic / Hush Hush Hush, Here Comes The Bogey Man	Absolutely. Although recession and mass unemployment in the thirties were ultimately why people weren't buying records. And to be clear, all this is why you don't see many of the Henry Hall discs. It was just bad timing on his part to take over when he did.
RadnaNotions 27th Sep 2013		78 RPM Henry Hall - Teddy Bears' Picnic / Hush Hush Hush, Here Comes The Bogey Man	Although the Great Depression started in around 1930, the real drop in record sales appears to have occurred in around 1932. You really don't see that many records from about 1933-1948. Or perhaps I should say, compared to the number of records you see from the late twenties, early thirties, and the fifties, you don't see many records from those years.
RadnaNotions 30th Aug 2013		78 RPM Choral À Coeur Joie - Marjolaine Strasbourg	Well, it's an "animated disc"... I'd guess the mirror(s) revolve with the disc and just reflect the frames of the animation that run around the red circle so that you can view them when looking from the side. As it turns you'd see the animation repeating over and over.
RadnaNotions 10th Jul 2013		78 RPM The Everly Brothers - Bird Dog / Devoted To You	As indicated, I've got this - so I'll try to do a scan of it some time fairly soon if no one else does.
RadnaNotions 1st Jul 2013		78 RPM Roy Fox - Minnie The Moocher / Kicking The Gong Around	I was going to link to someone else's (i.e. better) transfer but the others seem to have reverb on them that isn't on the disc. I think the message is drugs are bad.
RadnaNotions 29th Jun 2013		78 RPM Desi Arnaz - Mi Vida / Another Night Like This	So they really were stating the obvious... I suppose we could compare it with this. Or this contemporaneous USA one. Maybe it was an idea for a house style that they soon realized was superfluous for the main label.
RadnaNotions 28th Jun 2013		78 RPM Desi Arnaz - Mi Vida / Another Night Like This	I doubt they were just stating the obvious. Presumably - as your(?) notes suggest - it represents a series. Possibly it was an indication of high quality (price) or value for money (price). Brunswick in the UK had a "red label" series, which I'm told was priced differently. They had red labels. Although the only one that's been uploaded here so far is one of the blue Fred Astaire ones. It has an "RL" cat. no. though.
RadnaNotions 19th Jun 2013		78 RPM Mitglieder der Kapelle der Staatsoper Berlin - Op 68 : 6. Symphonie, F-dur , "Pastoral"	You can buy this from Naxos. The recording apparently dates from around 1930. This is a re-issue:- "Documentation concerning Grammophon/Polydor recordings is very sketchy. Exact recording dates are uncertain, matrix numbers are not always an accurate indicator, and Grammophon was known to reissue certain recordings in dubbed versions, with new matrix numbers. The Pastoral Symphony originally appeared as Polydor 66467/72 and Brunswick 90 189/94, and was later reissued as Polydor 95378/83. French pressings of this issue were from original stampers and bore the same matrix numbers and mechanical copyright date (1930). German pressings were dubbings, mechanical copyright 1938, and given new matrix numbers: 582/5 GO, 905/6 GS 8D, 586/90 GO"
RadnaNotions 12th Jun 2013		78 RPM The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra - The Music Goes 'Round And Around / The Broken Record	This song was written in 1935 so I don't think 1932 can be right. The FB series started around 1935 too.
RadnaNotions 3rd Jun 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major	I'll be posting a 1918 Harry Fay record to YouTube in a day or two... I should say my intention in creating a list was to give me something to measure my collection against. What I realised was that my list was never going to be complete - my collection even less so. While I think I'd like to look at the legendary Rust books (I confess I've never seen them), I don't know if I could live with knowing the true scale of the "problem".
RadnaNotions 29th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major	That page has "Behind the clouds" (1926) listed under both Percival Mackey and his Kit Cat Band and Percival Mackey Orch. (lower down) and it seems to be the same recording. I've got Thanks For The Buggy Ride from 1926 and I think it's actually credited to Percival Mackey's Band on the label, which I think was the name used on most of the twenties Columbia releases. When I started buying 78s about five or six years ago, I found that his records were usually worth a punt - there's something kind of charming about them. So when the Gramophone archive was available online (for free, as a beta) I started trying to piece together a list of his records. The October 1926 edition listed four 10" and two 12" releases and I don't think that was out of the ordinary. From somewhere I've written down the information that his band released 48 records from 1927 to 1928. Amazing. I gave up with my list pretty quickly...
RadnaNotions 28th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major	With the proviso that I know nothing... I was under the impression that Mackey took over as the band leader at the Kit-Cat Club in around 1931. I think the review of To-day I Feel So Happy in Gramophone refers to that as the first record release for that band. I have no idea how different that line-up was from this twenties band. I've a feeling TIFSH (which is one of my favourite records) is the only Mackey record I've got that was recorded electrically.
RadnaNotions 27th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey And His Kit-Cat Band - I'm Thru' With Love / To-day I Feel So Happy	To-day I Feel So Happy:- [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 27th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major	The catalogue number would indicate 1925.
RadnaNotions 5th May 2013		78 RPM Harry Hudson's Melody Men - In The Shadows / Misery Farm	Misery Farm then:- [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 30th Apr 2013		78 RPM Jack Hylton - Jollity Farm / On Her Doorstep Last Night	As the lyric indicates, it is itself an answer song to Misery Farm. I daresay if you follow the chain for long enough you end up at Bingo-Master's Break-Out.
RadnaNotions 6th Apr 2013		78 RPM Mr. Billy Williams - Save A Little One For Me / Meet You One Dark Night	The A-side is a Fred Godfrey song and the very good Bless 'Em All: The Songs of Fred Godfrey site rather confusingly says this song was published in 1909 and then says that Billy Williams recorded six versions in 1908 and 1909. But this would be a reissue of one of those, and I don't think Coliseum started until 1912. So, I'd say 1912 is certainly more correct than 1906.
RadnaNotions 11th Mar 2013		78 RPM Symphony Orchestra - Ballet De Syliva Prelude And Pizzicato / Ballet De Syliva Intermezzo And Valse Lente	It looks like it was commonly used to denote the Marconi system, as TheJudge says. Search for "M in a circle" in this page.
RadnaNotions 10th Mar 2013		78 RPM George Formby - The Lancashire Toreador / The Window Cleaner (No.2) (Further Adventures Of The Window Cleaner)	Yes, the catalogue number would place it in 1937.
RadnaNotions 10th Mar 2013		78 RPM Eddie Cantor - Cheer Up	There was an equivalent UK Durium label that ran from 1932 to 1933. I've uploaded a couple of examples from that.

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