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xiphophilos 14th Aug 2024		78 RPM Eddie Jordan And His East Side Boys - The Sidewalks Of New York / In The Good Old Summer Time	Added label scans of the original 1928 Oakland pressing. The Oakland repress is not from the mid-1930s (the company name from fall 1930-summer 1935 would have been RCA Victor Company, Inc.) but from spring to summer 1930 because it shows the short-lived company name Victor Talking Machine Division - Radio-Victor Corporation of America, cf. M. W. Sherman, Collector's Guide to Victor Records, 2nd ed., page 95.
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Pilar Arcos - Cielito Lindo / El Que A Hierro Mata	The green label is a late 1926 repress using a Viva-tonal style label without the words "Viva-tonal Recording” and with three lines of registration text in English and Spanish under the Columbia logo and two patent dates listed at the bottom (Jan. 21, '13 and May 22, '23), cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 31.
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM "Fats" Waller - Basin Street Blues / I Ain't Got Nobody	Image 2905508 of HMV B.8636 is the latest example of Han Enderman's HMV label variant #C3 at http://early78s.uk/hmv-record-labels-on-the-b-series-1912-1958/. So that variant was only used through Nov. 1937.
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Paul Whiteman - A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) / Well-Digger's Breakdown	Added Indianapolis pressing.
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo / Johnson Rag	B side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Glenn Miller - An Angel In A Furnished Room / Love With A Capital "You"	A side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Glenn Miller - An Angel In A Furnished Room / Love With A Capital "You"	B side: [YouTube Video] 16-year-old Kay Starr jumping in for Marion Hutton who had to take a week off after collapsing from exhaustion on the stage of the Glen Island Casino. More info here Five months later, on November 16, 1939, Marion Hutton recorded the same song: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Benny Goodman - I've Found A New Baby / Swingtime In The Rockies	A side: [YouTube Video] B side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 13th Aug 2024		78 RPM Pilar Arcos - Sonsa / Lola	Must have been recorded in 1926, as you say: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/115765/Arcos_Pilar?Matrix_page=100000 The label, though, is a 1928-1929 Viva-tonal style label marked as "Viva-tonal Recording" with one patent date (Jan. 21, '13) and patent nr. RE. 16588 at bottom, cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 32.
xiphophilos 11th Aug 2024		78 RPM Charlie Walker - The Chocolate Song / Hurry Back Home	Sides have been switched so that the side with the diamond symbol after the matrix number is the B side.
xiphophilos 4th Aug 2024		78 RPM Mr. J. D. Wardle - We close at 2 on Thursdays	J. D. Wardle is a pseudonym for Arthur Elliot, see Leonard Petts, in Talking Machine Review 20-21 (February - April 1973), page 126. That same article explains that these were originally Zonophone recordings that were transferred (dubbed?) to Gramophone matrices and produced exclusively for the Australian market because an Australian distributor had complained that Gramophone didn't provide them with enough comedy records. GC-3-2812 was originally Zonophone mx. X42409, recorded by Arthur Elliot.
xiphophilos 2nd Aug 2024		78 RPM Spike Jones And His City Slickers - Tennessee Waltz / I Haven't Been Home For Three Whole Nights	Since the Camden plant closed in January 1949, the Camden labels must be Camden label blanks used up by the Indianapolis plant. They do have the Indianapolis "I" in the runouts.
xiphophilos 31st Jul 2024		78 RPM Jimmie Lunceford - Flamingo / Siesta At The Fiesta	I've added the runouts of my copy. The little o (actually looks more like a small zero "0") is probably a pressing plant ID. My guess is that it's Decca's West Coast plant in Los Angeles, but I have nothing to prove that. Does anyone else know more?
xiphophilos 31st Jul 2024		78 RPM The Varsity Seven - Shake It And Break It / A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody	Eli Oberstein worked for Victor between 1929 and February 1939, rising from salesman and accountant to recording supervisor and finally head of RCA Victor's budget label Bluebird, which he built into a major pop music label. By 1940, when this was recorded, Oberstein had left (was fired from?) RCA Victor. He ran the Varsity label as a budget label that was supposed to rival the Bluebird label. Around the fall of 1940, both Varsity and its sister label Royale went bust. That did not stop Oberstein, however. By 1941, he had founded another record company and released the Elite and later the Hit Record label. Both managed to issue new records even during the 1942-1943 Petrillo recording ban and despite the scarcity of shellac during the war years. More on Oberstein here.
xiphophilos 30th Jul 2024		78 RPM Artie Shaw - You Forgot About Me / Whispers In The Night	Added Indianapolis pressing.
xiphophilos 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Nobody's Sweetheart / St. James' Infirmary	You are right, of course. I thought I'd seen more of the Century Expanded numbers than of the Cheltenham ones when I scrolled trough the releases we have, but now I see it's the other way around. And in fact, I now see that you'd declared a 1929 label to be "typical East Coast with fonts from the Cheltenham family" at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/4418us&rc=355428#355428
xiphophilos 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Jack Denny - Just Friends / Oh, What A Thrill (To Hear It From You)	DAHR gives two different recording dates, Jan. 8 and Jan. 9, 1932 (see above). It also identifies the male singer as Rod May.
xiphophilos 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Kay Kyser - When The Roses Bloom Again / A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)	B side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Paul Whiteman - A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) / Well-Digger's Breakdown	A side: [YouTube Video] Wingy Manone: I want a zoot suit with the reet pleat And a drape shape, and a stuffed cuff To look sharp enough to see my Sunday gal. Dorothy Mitchell: You want a reef sleeve with a right stripe And a rare square, so the gals will stare When they see you struttin’ with your Sunday pal. You want to look keen so your dream will say "You don't look like the same beau!" So keen that she'll scream "Here comes my walkin' rainbow!" Wingy Manone: So make a zoot suit with the reet pleat And a drape shape, and a stuffed cuff To look sharp enough to see my Sunday gal. – Now what do you want? Dorothy Mitchell: I want a brown gown with the zop top With a hip slip, and a laced waist In the sharpest taste to see my Sunday man. A scat hat and a zag bag And a slick kiss, so the other chicks Will be jealous when I’m with my Sunday fan. I wanna look keen so my dream will say “Ain’t I the lucky fellah” So keen that he’ll scream, “Baby’s in Technicolor” Wingy Manone: So make a reet pleat and a drape shape, and a stuffed cuff to look sharp enough to see my Sunday, Sunday gal! Some pictures of Zoot suits: https://kennethkellystyle.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/fashion-iconograpgy-the-zoot-suit-coming-soon/
xiphophilos 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Nobody's Sweetheart / St. James' Infirmary	The catalog numbers of the East Coast and West Coast versions (#1 and #1W) are set in very different fonts. The East Coast version numbers might be Century Expanded; the West Coast maybe a type of Cheltenham? I've written to W.B.lbl to help us identify the fonts for sure. Based on the font similarity, though, #2 looks also like a West Coast version to me. Variant #2 (from 1932) lists the matrix number in the runout: ?35881ᴬ 4. The ? stands for what may be a small letter that I can't read, Variant #3 (from 1934, with the inner pressing ring) lists the matrix numbers both on the labels and in the runouts. In the A side runout, it may again be preceded by some other letter: ?35881ᴬ 9 ⍑. The B side runout also has something like ⍑ in the 9 o'clock position. Couldn't read the rest on the original uncropped images.
xiphophilos 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Mel Powell - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise / Mood At Twilight	A side: [YouTube Video] B side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 27th Jul 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Nobody's Sweetheart / St. James' Infirmary	"Nobody's Sweetheart" is the A side after all. The original 1931 release marks "St. James Infirmary" as the B side with a dash in the runout, see the images here.
xiphophilos 27th Jul 2024		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Many Happy Returns Of The Day / At Your Command	Added another NP tax code repress copy. This one is lacking the 0-prefix on both sides (the earlier upload does feature it on the A, but not on the B side), and it has two tax increase stamps, reflecting the fact that it remained unsold for a while: DT (in force April 9, 1948 - December 29, 1950) AT (in force December 30, 1950 - April 15, 1953) Many copies of the original 1931 release probably fell victim to the used shellac recycling drives of World War 2.
xiphophilos 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Nat "King" Cole - Come Closer To Me / Nothing In The World	This does not seem to be a British release. It doesn't list EMI at the top, for example, and it features a large inner pressing ring. It looks very different, e.g., from Capitol CL. 14899.
xiphophilos 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Wiley Walker And Gene Sullivan - Forgive Me / Make Room In Your Heart For A Friend	This October 8, 1945 release seems to be the earliest release on a October 1945 to October 1947 CBS label with two lines of patent text under COLUMBIA, listing patent 1702564, cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 9 and https://www.friktech.com/labels/ColumbiaLabelography.pdf Some lower catalog numbers bear the same label style, but were released later: Marek Weber on Columbia 36863 - 36866 (= Columbia album C 109) in January 1946 and Harry James on Columbia 36867 and Frank Sinatra on Columbia 36868 on October 22, 1945. Gene Krupa on Columbia 36862 also appeared on October 8, 1945 but still exists with the older CBS label that has 3 lines of patent text.
xiphophilos 24th Jul 2024		78 RPM Male Voice Quartette From The Brompton Oratory - The Church's One Foundation / The Son Of God Goes Forth To War	Pressed in Berlin, but for sale in Britain only. The larger numbers are the matrix numbers; the catalog number appears much smaller to the left of the spindle hole.
xiphophilos 20th Jul 2024		78 RPM Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Danny Boy	In the meantime, you can listen to it here: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 18th Jul 2024		78 RPM Rambling Red Foley - The Lone Cowboy / Single Life Is Good Enough For Me	That's not quite right. https://78discography.com/VOC5500.htm does not list Vocalion 5501. It only lists Vocalion 05501, which is indeed a different record (Yas Yas Girl, "You're A Pain In The Neck To Me / You Don't Know My Mind"). Our Vocalion profile at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/about/vocalion-us explains this doubling of numbers: "Starting in April 1938, after ARC had stopped issuing its budget labels Banner, Conqueror, Melotone, Perfect, Oriole, and Romeo, it reissued some of these releases on Vocalion. To do that, it created new catalog numbers by reusing old numbers of popular records that had not yet been issued with a 0-prefix and adding a "0" to them." So Vocalion 05501 is a 1938 reissue of an older Yas Yas Girl recording (which was originally released as Conqueror 9449).
xiphophilos 4th Jul 2024		78 RPM The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - Doodle-Doo-Doo (La, Ra, La, La) / Back In Hackensack New Jersey	A side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 4th Jul 2024		78 RPM The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - Doodle-Doo-Doo (La, Ra, La, La) / Back In Hackensack New Jersey	B side: [YouTube Video]

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