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Whyperion SUBS 15th Feb 2024		78 RPM Tommy Steele - The Truth About Me	[YouTube Video] audio
Whyperion SUBS 9th Feb 2024		78 RPM The Esquire Boys - Bye Bye Blues / Play Me Boogie	[YouTube Video] The YT comment on the 45 suggests one person had the 78 in their collection. Understood to be first release after death of Danny Cedrone
Whyperion SUBS 9th Feb 2024		78 RPM The Guitars Two - Wang Wang Blues / Dig-A-Doo	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] I Understand Media was one of Dave Miller's (Holiday and Essex) labels. YT uploader muses Dig-A-Doo sounding like the Esquire Boys, noting Danny Cedrone had died by this release, could it be Orlando Scaltrito a.k.a "Bob Scale" who plays guitar on this? Bob Scaltrito played also guitar on "Green Tree Boogie" by Bill Haley & The Saddlemen
Whyperion SUBS 6th Jan 2024		78 RPM Lee Konitz - Mean To Me / Skylark	Info from printed sources, see forum note and confirming that I came across a plain brown sleeve with V 2343 pencilled on it from an acquired collection of UK 78s in London.
Whyperion SUBS 3rd Jan 2024		78 RPM Renee Chemet - Waltz / Poem	Images of 1922 release on discogs. my pressing seems later poss 1932
Whyperion SUBS 3rd Jan 2024		78 RPM The Stargazers - Somebody / (My Baby Don't Love Me) No More	I have a disc with a round Edward Kassner publisher logo
Whyperion SUBS 3rd Jan 2024		78 RPM Ronnie Hilton - The Yellow Rose Of Texas / Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)	most seem to have a RT tax code, anyone got discs with others/none ?
Whyperion SUBS 28th Dec 2023		78 RPM The Carter Family - Don't Forget This Song / The Little Log Hut In The Lane	There must have been an accounting reason for specifically placing this in The Gramophone Company Ltd. But if it is not UK, why have Purchase Tax codes (habit?)
Whyperion SUBS 28th Dec 2023		78 RPM The Ambassadors Twelve - The Queen Was In The Parlour / We All Fell	JW385 JW404 aka Jay Wilbur and His Orchestra [YouTube Video] Vocal attributed by some to Les Allen [YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 27th Dec 2023		Book Jim Blake - The London Underground, 1968-1985	Review Publisher Blurb London's Historic, iconic Underground railway system in the period from 1968 to 1985 was a very different place to what it is in the 2020s. Much of its rolling stock dated from before World War Two, and with the exception of the new Victoria Line and the isolated Woodford to Hainault shuttle, trains were all two-person operated as the 1970s dawned. Transport photographer Jim Blake recorded most of the system on film before it would change forever, concentrating on the older rolling stock as well as other items of interest due for replacement or modernisation, during this period when, regrettably, London Transport was often starved of much-needed funds by central government. The eminently sensible transfer of overall control of London's buses and Underground system to the city-wide Greater London Council at the beginning of 1970 was snatched away by the Thatcher regime in 1984, after which things rapidly went downhill. This book covers the years of GLC control, including the months prior to their taking charge in order to set the scene. Many rare and unusual scenes are included in this volume, especially of the then still basically intact portion of the uncompleted Northern Line extension between Drayton Park and Highgate, which had been so close to completion when work was halted during the war, but then abandoned in the early 1950s, incurring much wasted work and expenditure. For anyone with a serious interest in London's Underground, this book is essential reading, including as it does many pervious unpublished photographs. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Whyperion SUBS 27th Dec 2023		Book Jim Blake - British Independent Bus And Coach Operators	Review Publisher Blurb During the 1960s, a large number of independent bus and coach fleets existed, which varied enormously in size and scope of operation. They ranged from major operators such as Barton Transport (Nottinghamshire); Lancashire United and West Riding who operated stage carriage services as well as coach fleets; or Wallace Arnold Tours of Leeds, a major coach touring company in Britain and Continental Europe; to small operators who possessed just a handful of vehicles. The latter were sometimes involved only in private hire work, for such things as outings to sporting events or theatres, school or industrial contracts or often a combination of both. Smaller operators were based throughout the country, sometimes in tiny villages but also in the heart of large cities. Often the smaller operators bought redundant buses and coaches from major operators, whether BET, BTC (Tilling) or municipal concerns, or London Transport. Many got bargains from the latter, with surplus RT and RTL double-deckers sold following the disastrous bus strike and service cuts of 1958. Conversely, redundant vehicles bought by independent fleets often brought types that came from as far away as Scotland to London and the south east. In the 1960s, the oldest buses and coaches with independent fleets were those employed on school or industrial contracts. These were not subject to the rigorous tests governing those carrying fare-paying passengers, so could be kept going until they were literally falling apart! These were known as non-PSVs', i.e. non-public service vehicles. On the other hand, some very small independent fleets, often with the title Luxury Coaches', took great pride in their fleets. They would purchase new coaches every two or three years and keep them in immaculate condition. The net result was that British independent bus and coach operators in the 1960s had a fascinating variety of chassis and body makes and styles, as well as liveries. This book shows many of these as they were between fifty and sixty years ago. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Whyperion SUBS 27th Dec 2023		Book Jim Blake - B.E.T. Group Bus Fleets	Review Publisher Blurb This book looks at the wonderful variety of buses and coaches operated by British Electric Traction group fleets in the 1960s, featuring previously unpublished photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives. Not only did these fleets, which served most of England and Wales, have a splendid variety of British-built buses and coaches with chassis manufactured by the likes of AEC, Crossley, Daimler, Dennis, Guy and Leyland - with bodywork by such firms as Park Royal, Weymann, Metro-Cammell, East Lancs, Northern Counties, Roe, Duple, Plaxton, Willowbrook and Leyland again - but they also had an array of distinctive liveries. Many dated back to the early part of the century when the operators first started bus operation. The smart maroon and cream of East Kent, the dark green and cream of Maidstone & District or the light green and cream of Southdown, for example, were supplemented by ornate fleet-names, often in gold lettering. These three fleets were just a few of those that served seaside towns, and will remind readers of holidays they spent in the 1950s and '60s. Sadly, the years covered by this book are the final years of the BET group, which was taken over by the nationalised Transport Holding Company in late 1967, as a prelude to the creation of the National Bus Company, under which the distinctive liveries of the BET group fleets, and even some of the operators themselves, would disappear. The 1960s also saw the demise of many traditional types of bus that these fleets operated, owing to the introduction of rear-engined double-deckers, such as the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline, as well as the spread of one-man operation. Many of the photographs featured in this book show the older types in their final days - pure nostalgia for the transport enthusiast. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Whyperion SUBS 26th Dec 2023		Book Jim Blake - London Transport Buses In The 1960s	Review Publisher Blurb Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by motorbuses. Begun in 1959 using surplus RT-types, it was completed by May 1962 using new Routemasters, designed specifically to replace them. They then continued to replace RT types, too. Traffic congestion and staff shortages played havoc with London Transport's buses and Green Line coaches during the 1960s, one-man operation was seen as a remedy for the latter, shortening routes in the Central Area for the former. Thus the ill-fated Reshaping Plan was born, introducing new O.M.O. bus types. These entered trial service in 1965, and after much delay the plan was implemented from September 1968 onwards. Sadly, new MB-types, also introduced in the Country Area, soon proved a disaster! Unfortunately, owing to a government diktat, Routemaster production ended at the start of 1968, forcing LT to buy off-the-peg vehicles unsuited to London operation and their in-house overhaul procedures. The decade ended with the loss of LT's Country Area buses and Green Line coaches to the National Bus Company. Photographer Jim Blake began photographing London's buses towards the end of the trolleybus conversion programme in 1961 and continued dealing with the changing scene throughout the decade. He dealt very thoroughly with the Reshaping changes, and many of the photographs featured herein show rare and unusual scenes which have never been published before. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Whyperion SUBS 26th Dec 2023		Book Jim Blake - London Buses In The 1970s, 1975-1979: From Crisis To Recovery	Review Publisher Blurb Continuing with photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still struggling to keep services going. This resulted both from being plagued by a shortage of spare parts for their vehicles, and having a number of vehicle types which were unreliable the MB, SM and DMS classes. In 1975, both operators had to hire buses from other companies, so desperate were they. Many came from the seaside towns of Southend, Bournemouth and Eastbourne. This continued until the spares shortage began to abate later in the decade, particularly with London Country. As the decade progressed, the two fleets began to lose their 'ancestral' vehicle types. London Country rapidly became 'just another National Bus Company fleet', buying Leyland Atlanteans and Nationals common to most others throughout the country. Having virtually abandoned the awful MB and SM-types, London Transport had to suffer buying the equally awful DMSs well into 1978, but had already ordered replacements for them by that point the M class Metrobuses and T class Titans both of which would finally prove successful. However, plans to convert trunk routes serving Central London to one-person operation were largely abandoned. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Whyperion SUBS 26th Dec 2023		Book Jim Blake - London Buses In The 1970s, 1970-1974 : From Divison To Crisis	Review Publisher Blurb Using photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the turbulent period in the history of London's buses immediately after London Transport lost its Country Buses and Green Line Coaches to the recently-formed National Bus Company, under their new subsidiary company, London Country Bus Services Ltd. The new entity inherited a largely elderly fleet of buses from London Transport, notably almost 500 RT-class AEC Regent double-deckers, of which replacement was already under way in the shape of new AEC MB and SM class Swift single-deckers. London Transport itself was in the throes of replacing a much larger fleet of these. At the time of the split, it was already apparent that the 36ft-long MB class single-deckers were not suitable for London conditions, particularly in negotiating suburban streets cluttered with cars, and were also mechanically unreliable. The shorter SM class superseded them, but they were equally unreliable. January 1971 saw the appearance of London Transport's first purpose-built one-man operated double-decker the DMS class. All manner of problems plagued these, too. Both operators were also plagued with a shortage of spare parts for their vehicles, made worse by the three-day week imposed by the Heath regime in 1973-4. London Transport and London Country were still closely related, with the latter's buses continuing to be overhauled at LT's Aldenham Works. Such were the problems with the MB, SM and DMS types that LT not only had to resurrect elderly RTs to keep services going, but even repurchased some from London Country! In turn, the latter operator hired a number of MB-types from LT, now abandoned as useless, from 1974 onwards in an effort to cover their own vehicle shortages. Things looked bleak for both operators in the mid-1970s. This book contains a variety of interesting and often unusual photographs illustrating all of this, most of which have never been published before. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Whyperion SUBS 15th Dec 2023		78 RPM The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon - Why Do Fools Fall In Love / Please Be Mine	The Sax break on this in the middle is superb
Whyperion SUBS 7th Dec 2023		78 RPM Bill Haley With The Saddlemen - Jukebox Cannonball / Sundown Boogie	Hank Williams wrote Move It On Over in 1947 , in late 1951 Bill Haley recycled it into Sundown Boogie. Did Hank ever know/care of the similarity or had the rockcountry beat become so common that it was effectively a public domain genre
Whyperion SUBS 1st Dec 2023		78 RPM The California Ramblers - Gotta Go To Work Again / Sing An Old Fashioned Song (To A Young Sophisticated Lady)	A Side Audio https://ia903002.us.archive.org/2/items/78_gotta-go-to-work-again_the-california-ramblers-eddy-lloyd-milton-pascal-edgar-fairc_gbia0160100a/GOTTA%20GO%20TO%20WORK%20AGAIN%20-%20The%20California%20Ramblers.mp3
Whyperion SUBS 27th Nov 2023		Cassette Album Chas And Dave - Best Of Live	Chas and Dave complained there were a lot of bootleg recordings going around , even under supposed reputable labels that didnt cough up fair/any royalities
Whyperion SUBS 20th Nov 2023		78 RPM Layton And Johnstone - The Birth Of The Blues / Lido Lady	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] Vids, not really my scene the tunes passable but dont quite hit it. Even if we have Whipperwill in the lyrics again
Whyperion SUBS 6th Nov 2023		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Original Reggae Greats Vol. 2	I assume the record being pressed in the US was to do with oil crises and labour issues in the UK 1973/74 ? Or were some jacketed and sent to other worldwide countries / US distribution ??
Whyperion SUBS 30th Oct 2023		78 RPM Frank Lee's Tara Ceilidh Band - Irish Jigs / Let's Have A Knees Up	Images at Discogs
Whyperion SUBS 30th Oct 2023		78 RPM Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire / Mean Woman Blues	£25 value on discogs probably fairer
Whyperion SUBS 29th Oct 2023		78 RPM Tommy Sands - Teen-age Crush / Hep Dee Hootie (Cutie Wootie)	is it my eyesight or are black label versions of this avalible ?
Whyperion SUBS 29th Oct 2023		78 RPM Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again	I think the only person that might have bought this would be the far end of Scotland or somewhere like that. The 45 collection I acquired had a good few 78s in it ,but the London (town) owner had a fairly clear 1957ish cut off for switching to buying 45s with only a few 78s that were either parents or only on 78 at time of issue. Unfortunately my friend who worked at Decca in Battersea was on radar/radar parts rather than discs so I cannot ask him if he remembers.
Whyperion SUBS 16th Oct 2023		78 RPM Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender / Any Way You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)	NME of 12 Oct 1956 ran with story that Elvis had recorded the four songs in "Love Me Tender" by that date. NME 16 Nov 1956 had Hound Dog still selling at chart position 3 and Blue Moon in at 15. Love Me Tender in the US was Number 1 , as it had been previous week.
Whyperion SUBS 16th Oct 2023		78 RPM Elvis Presley - Tryin' To Get To You / Lawdy, Miss Clawdy	Answering Maxonian, I think the HMV/EMI agreement with RCA expired end 1957 (though RCA for NEW releases had contracted with Decca for the UK before then). So the HMV label ones you will find are either on Sun in the US or were previous LP/EP tracks not always issued on a RCA Single in the US.
Whyperion SUBS 16th Oct 2023		78 RPM Elvis Presley - Mystery Train / Love Me	Mystery Train from Sun USA 223 Love Me appears not to have been issued as a single in the US (was on RCA Victor USA EPA 992 (EP 1956)
Whyperion SUBS 6th Mar 2023		78 RPM Lucienne Boyer - Des Mots Nouveaux / Je Ne Savais Pas	Picked up at the weekend what appears to be an unplayed / untouched (till I dropped my fingerprints over it) copy of this amazing condition for a pre WW2 pressing.
Whyperion SUBS 6th Mar 2023		78 RPM Grand Massed Brass Bands - Deep Harmony (Sweet Is The Work, My God My King) / Rimington (Jesus Shall Reign)	Later released as A Side of Columbia EP – SEG 7610

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