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Member	Item		Review/Comment
xiphophilos 5th Jun 2024		78 RPM Robert - Swinging On A Star / The Older You Grow	I have replaced the Youtube video, which indeed had deplorable sound quality, with a new soundfile that I have uploaded to Internet Archive.
xiphophilos 5th Jun 2024		78 RPM Jimmy Dorsey - I'm A Gambler / Dusk In Upper Sandusky	Now there is actually a 1938 recording with the title "Dusk In Upper Sandusky" (mx. 63692, recorded NYC April 29, 1938) that was released in 1938, just like this reissue, on Decca 1939A. I wonder if that new recording became the reason for re-naming the original 1935 recording of "Dorsey Stomp"? [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM Caroline Johnson - Ain't Got Nobody To Grind Ma Coffee / Mama's Losin' A Mighty Good Chance	Fixed release year and recording date. Can't have been recorded ca. August 1, 1928 because the label says 7-26, i.e., the record was released in July 1926 (not July 1924). May 1, 1926 recording per http://www.78discography.com/GNT3000.htm
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Milenberg Joys / Sugar Foot Stomp	Added release month, as on the label indicated: 8-25. If you add descriptions to the images, they can be more easily found by searches.
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM Jimmy Dorsey - I'm A Gambler / Dusk In Upper Sandusky	I personally think it would make sense to create a separate entry so that the different titles can be shown, and then link the two entries. What do others think?
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM Cavan O'Connor - I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen / Kathleen Mavourneen	This is the first label I've found with the margin text that was introduced in ca. April 1948: “All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Made in England. Unauthorized public performance, broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited.” See also the new label guide at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/about/decca. The database is missing Decca F.8851, which might already show this margin text.
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM Bob Crosby - South Rampart Street Parade / Dogtown Blues	Redpunk's T tax code scans are earlier than the TT ones. T was in force October 21, 1940 – April 14, 1942. Hawkmarty 's DT tax code labels show the first DT tax code (in force April 15, 1942 - April 13, 1943), as the later TT sticker shows (TT was in force April 14, 1943 - April 9, 1946).
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Let's Start The New Year Right / White Christmas	Redpunk's labels (images 3263111 and 3263112) show the margin text used on red labels, I think, between 1934 and April 1946: “This copyright record may not be publicly performed nor broadcast without authority." So they could be from 1942. Lovinda's labels (1152869 and 1152870) show the margin text in use between March or April 1948 and October 1954: “All rights of the manufacturer and of the owner of the recorded work reserved. Made in England. Unauthorized public performance, broadcasting and copying of this record prohibited.” Because they still feature side indicators A & B, they must be from ca. March or April 1948 and June 1950. I'm not sure why they don't show a white Beethoven head and white Decca logo. Could it be that they are not British? lorangrecords' labels (images 3519627 and 3519628) show the same margin text, except the label has an empty spot at the top where Lovinda's label says "Made in England." Could this be a Swedish label?
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM The Jesters - McNamara's Band / She Lived Next Door To A Firehouse	These labels are a repress with TT tax code = April 14, 1943 - April 9, 1946.
xiphophilos 4th Jun 2024		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Let's Start The New Year Right / White Christmas	lorangrecords' third label variant no longer has A and B side designations, so it must be from after July 1950, which is when Decca stopped using them. I think the labels with the white Beethoven head and Decca name and the shorter margin text are the earliest, and I have moved them up.
xiphophilos 2nd Jun 2024		78 RPM Louis Armstrong's Hot Five - New Rhythm Style Series No. 5 & 6	Rearranged labels chronologically.
xiphophilos 1st Jun 2024		78 RPM Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Happy Go Lucky Local Part I / Happy Go Lucky Local Part II	Apart from the matrix number, the B runout here also lists <L> (an L in a diamond). Which pressing plant would that be?
xiphophilos 28th May 2024		78 RPM Fred Van Eps - Thanks For The Lobster / In Search Of A Husband	Both songs are from 1914, so the record is probably from the same year. Per DAHR, "Thanks For The Lobster" was recorded by banjo player Fred Van Eps in February 1914 for Victor but rejected and in July 1914 with the Van Eps Banjo Orchestra and released on Columbia A1593. The Victor Military Band recorded the same title a few days after Van Eps, on February 10, 1914, and released it on Victor 17550.
xiphophilos 25th May 2024		78 RPM Cootie Williams - Juice Head Baby / Salt Lake City Bounce	Images 3573032 and 3573033 do not look like a Scranton pressing. Both images list titles and artist names in a wider font, Metro Black No. 2. In contrast, the Scranton pressing 1258389 and 1258389 uses titles set in a narrow font, Intertype Vogue Bold Condensed, characteristic for Scranton pressings.
xiphophilos 24th May 2024		78 RPM Frankie Laine - In The Wee Small Hours / You're A Character, Dear	Fixed the matrix numbers and titles. In terms of the recording place, I followed Robert L. Campbell and Robert Pruter's Gold Seal discography. The background vocals on "That's Liberty" from the same session were by a group called "The Hollywoodsmen", which seems to support Hollywood rather than New York as the place of recording.
xiphophilos 20th May 2024		78 RPM Ricardo Duardo - Recuerdo De Un Cocktail / Divina Mujercita	Ricardo Duerte and the Discos Tri-Color are mentioned in Gráfica, vol. 2 (1949), page 6, 30 & 31. Unfortunately, Google only provides a few snippets. But one of them (page 6) mentions that Gilda Basurto singing "Solo Un Sueño" b/w "Quanta Dicha" accompanied by Orquesta De Cheché Sánchez (Tri-Color 574) is one of the latest releases. So every Tri-Color up to 574 must be from 1949.
xiphophilos 19th May 2024		78 RPM Ernest Thompson - Little Brown Jug / How Are You Goin' To Wet Your Whistle?	Image 3568309 represents a 1926 Viva-tonal style label without the words "Viva-tonal Recording", with one line of registration text under the logo on top and two patent dates (Jan. 21, '13 and May 22, '23) at the bottom. Image 3568310 represents the earlier, June 1925- very early 1926 first Viva-tonal-style label with one line of registration text and three patent dates (Aug. 11, ’08, Jan. 21, '13 and May 22, '23). Images 2653975 and 2653976 represent an August 1929 to April 1930 Viva-tonal style label with three lines of registration text under the logo on top and one patent date (Jan. 21, '13) and patent nr. RE. 16588 and 1702564 at bottom. See also M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," pages 31 and 32.
xiphophilos 19th May 2024		78 RPM Blind Boy Fuller - Baby, I Don't Have To Worry ('Cause That Stuff Is Here) / Looking For My Woman	I've removed the release month.
xiphophilos 19th May 2024		78 RPM Benny Goodman - Man Here Plays Fine Piano / Hora Staccato	[YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 19th May 2024		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Some Of These Days / Let's Spend An Evening At Home	This Vocalion label design was used from mid-1938 to 1940. Question is when this reissue was first released. In 1939? There is an earlier Vocalion with the same catalog number 2869 (Al Kavelin And His Orchestra, "Dancing With My Shadow b/w The Church Bells Told"). That's the one that was released in February 1935.
xiphophilos 18th May 2024		78 RPM Duke Ellington - The Blues With A Feelin' / Misty Mornin'	Thanks to Han for the images and to scrough for editing them. I've rearranged the labels in chronological order.
xiphophilos 18th May 2024		78 RPM Louis Armstrong And His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra - Just A Gigolo / Shine	I've re-ordered the images now. And just to set the record straight, han enderman knows far, far more about OKeh pressings than me. I hardly own any of these late 1920s/early 1930s Okeh's, so I have never seriously looked into them.
xiphophilos 13th May 2024		78 RPM Sonny Burke - What, Where And When / Mambo Jambo	The original June 1950 release still featured A & B side indicators, see Discogs copy.
xiphophilos 12th May 2024		78 RPM Comedian Harmonists - Hallo, was machst du heut, Daisy! / Ich hab' dich lieb, braune Madonna	"Hallo, Was Machst Du Heut, Daisy!" is Walter Donaldson's 1930 hit "You're Driving Me Crazy", except with new German lyrics. For comparison, here is Don Redman singing the original in a 1931 recording: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 11th May 2024		78 RPM Billy Toffel - New Look, Mademoiselle / Après La Pluie Le Beau Temps	Changed to Canada.
xiphophilos 9th May 2024		78 RPM Tex Williams And His Western Caravan - That's What I Like About The West / Downtown Poker Club	The original release is the one without a hyphen between A-prefix and catalog number. From late September to mid-October 1947, Capitol added a hyphen to separate prefix and catalog number; in late October 1947, it dropped the prefix altogether.
xiphophilos 8th May 2024		78 RPM Roy Hogsed - Cocaine Blues / Fishtail Boogie	Yes, Capitol 40274 is a reissue from Jan. 1950.
xiphophilos 8th May 2024		78 RPM Tex Ritter - Pecos Bill / Egg-A-Bread	A side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 8th May 2024		78 RPM Tex Ritter - Pecos Bill / Egg-A-Bread	B side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 8th May 2024		78 RPM Tex Ritter - Deck Of Cards / Rounded Up In Glory	The "Radio Station Studio" may have been that of radio station WSFA in Montgomery, AL, which, according to Wikipedia, helped start the career of another famous country singer and Alabama native, Hank Williams.

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