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Member	Item		Review/Comment
xiphophilos 20th Apr 2024		78 RPM Harry Champion - Natty Little Patch / Yiddle Play Your Fiddle	Please add your record.
xiphophilos 19th Apr 2024		78 RPM Handy's Orchestra - A Bunch Of Blues / Moonlight Blues	I know, it does take some time, doesn't it? ;-) Thanks for doing an impressive job with them, scrough! I notice you even managed to make some of the more tilted images look straight - far better than I could ever have done. You are a real artist!
xiphophilos 19th Apr 2024		78 RPM Harry Richman - Puttin' On The Ritz / There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie	B side (US label): [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 17th Apr 2024		78 RPM Handy's Orchestra - A Bunch Of Blues / Moonlight Blues	This is a large collection of ebay pictures, and it shows nicely how popular this record was. But before I could rearrange anything, I would have to crop all these images to a circle, and right now, I'd rather not do that.
xiphophilos 16th Apr 2024		78 RPM Handy's Orchestra - A Bunch Of Blues / Moonlight Blues	I've now seen an actual first release. It lists the orchestra only as "Handy's Orchestra", not "Handy's Orchestra of Memphis," and features the label printing date code JZ (= October 1917). Based on the catalog numbers, Columbia A2417, A2418, A2419, A2420, A2421, all credited to Handy's Orchestra, must have been released around December 20, 1917. They didn't get mentioned or listed in The Talking Machine World's December 15, 1917 issue. Maybe the company thought that only African-Americans would be interested. Instead, individual dealers promoted the records in their local newspapers. The oldest promotional ad I have now seen is: Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, Okla.), Tuesday, January 1, 1918, page 6. Only in February 1918, when Columbia was printing repress after repress of these records, did they list the first two of these five records (A2417 and A2418) in The Talking Machine World, but the as Dance Records of the Month.
xiphophilos 8th Apr 2024		78 RPM Hungarian Folk Dance Orchestra - Tapei Darudobogo / 1. Faridazo, 2. Paloc Csardas	A side: N8OB-8706-2 (archive.org) B side: PN4C 6486-2 (archive.org)
xiphophilos 4th Apr 2024		78 RPM The Missourians - Ozark Mountain Blues / Missouri Moan	This looks like the Electrola logo was just pasted over the HMV logo. Is that right?
xiphophilos 4th Apr 2024		78 RPM Harry Parry And His Radio Rhythm Club Sextet - The 1941 Super Rhythm Style Series, No. 53 & 54	The blue/white A side label (image 2100274) has a D above a T stamped into the area to the left of the spindle hole. This is an example of a repress with the first DT (Double Tax, 66⅔%) purchase tax code that was in force between April 15, 1942 and April 13, 1943. The TT (Triple Tax, 100%) tax sticker must have been attached in mid-April 1943, when the next purchase tax rate was introduced. See http://www.78rpm.net.nz/mechcopy/mech7.htm By the way, these tax rates, imposed on luxury goods, are truly staggering. Compared to that, the current UK VAT of 20% is modest, but it also covers far more goods and services.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Harry James - The 1942 Super Rhythm-Style Series, No. 45 & 46	Labels have now been rearranged chronologically. The latest repress, with DTP tax code, has both the longer patent text and adds BIEM to the rights society NCB. The original release is still missing. It would have to feature a DT tax code.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Benny Goodman - The 1941 Super Rhythm Style Series, No. 49 & 50	I wonder if the B side with the right society logos Mecolico and NCB is the original one, and the one with M.C.P.S., the publisher MacMelodies, and NCB/BIEM is a slightly later repress. The D.-T. tax sticker was attached to unsold older stock in April 1942. (DT was in force April 15, 1942 - April 13, 1943). Could you upload an images of your A side too, soultwinz? I know it probably has the same logo as the current A side, but maybe it also shows the tax code (should be T).
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Benny Goodman - The 1942 Super Rhythm Style Series, No. 15 & 16	Image 781576 is another example where the D in the DT tax code has been canceled out with an X, and the tax code has been turned into a TT tax code (April 14, 1943 - April 9, 1946) by adding a second T on the right side of the spindle hole.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Jimmy Lunceford - The 1939 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 37 & 38	This release has what seems like XTT stamped into the label. I think the X is supposed to cross out the D of the earlier DT tax code (April 15, 1942 - April 13, 1943) that had been stamped above the original T. So this is a repress with the TT tax code = April 14, 1943 - April 9, 1946.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Benny Goodman - 1941 Super Rhythm Style Series, No.27 & 28	The DT tax code was in force April 9, 1948 - December 29, 1950, but the fact that the rim text takes up only the lower half of the labels makes this a April - December 1948 repress. In 1949, the margin text became so long that it covered about 2/3 of the label margins.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM John Kirby - The 1941 Super Rhythm Style Series, No. 29 & 30	A surprisingly late occurrence of the gold/blue Parlophone label. The ST tax code (in force April 10, 1946 - November 12, 1947) shows that this must be a 1946-1947 repress.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM The Metronome All Star Band - The 1940 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 95 & 96	soultwinz, can you make out the tax code on your copy? Because of the change in publisher logos on the B side, it probably is later than the copy with TT code (April 14, 1943 - April 9, 1946) uploaded by Stephen Harris, so probably ST, LT, or DT.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Teddy Wilson Quartet - The 1940 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 89 & 90	Images 1827809 and 1827811 show a repress with the first DT tax code. The D is stamped into the area surrounding the spindle hole above the earlier T tax code, so it must be the earlier one of the two DT tax codes. This makes this repress a 15 Apr. 1942 – 13 Apr. 1943 repress.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Pete Johnson And His Boogie Woogie Boys - The 1939 Super Rhythm Style Series, No. 65 & 66	I wonder what the tax code on your blue & white label repress is, rockin-geoff.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Bix Beiderbecke - Miscellany Rhythm-Style Series No. 7 & 8	The copy here is a repress with an N tax code stamped into the area around the spindle hole. This tax code was in force between April 16, 1953 and October 27, 1955, see http://www.78rpm.net.nz/mechcopy/mech7.htm.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2024		78 RPM Frank Newton And His Cafe Society Orchestra - The 1939 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 61 & 62	The copy here is a repress with DT tax code. The D is stamped into the area surrounding the spindle hole above the earlier T tax code, so it must be the earlier one of the two DT tax codes. This makes this repress a 15 Apr. 1942 – 13 Apr. 1943 repress. The original would have the label name in blue on a golden background and no tax code.
xiphophilos 2nd Apr 2024		78 RPM Vernon Dalhart - Till We Meet Again / Magic Of Your Eyes	This alternate label design seems to have been used only until May 1919, so I have moved it up.
xiphophilos 2nd Apr 2024		78 RPM Victor Silvester And His Ballroom Orchestra - If I Should Fall In Love Again / Begin The Beguine	Actually, rocket78's images (Images 1150791 and 1150792) show a DTP tax code (not a DT one) stamped into the area around the spindle hole, and so they are much later represses from December 30, 1950 - April 15, 1953. The patent text surrounding the entire label margin conforms with a much later release than 1942 as well.
xiphophilos 29th Mar 2024		78 RPM Alvin Kaleolani And His Royal Hawaiians - E Naughty Naughty Mai Nei / Alika	Your labels, 78-Ron, are the originals, and I have moved them up. The records manufactured by Coast Records are a repress from 1948 or later.
xiphophilos 29th Mar 2024		78 RPM Goldie Hill - I'm Yvonne (Of The Bayou) / Say Big Boy	Thanks, Han, this clearly is the riddle's answer. I've changed the country to India.
xiphophilos 27th Mar 2024		78 RPM Johnny Johnson And His Statler Pennsylvanians - Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me / There's Something About A Rose (That Reminds Me Of You)	Added Oakland version, once sold at the Meier & Frank department store in Portland, Oregon.
xiphophilos 27th Mar 2024		78 RPM Johnny Ingram With Dave's Happy Three - Did Your Mother Come From Ireland	How neat to have a recording like this of your own grandfather! The label is new to me as well: Advertisers Recording Service, Inc., 113 W. 57th St., New York City, run by Jean V. Grombach. They were mentioned in a brief 1933 article in the New Yorker magazine at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/12/23/records-2. Apparently, they did air-checks as early as 1924: https://jeff560.tripod.com/airchecks.html. A letter by the label owner to Fred Waring is listed as evidence in 1938 New York Court of Appeals case.
xiphophilos 27th Mar 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher / I'll Get By	Thanks, KeithS, for adding this interesting article. I have always wondered where these Bell records were sold. Now I know!
xiphophilos 26th Mar 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher / I'll Get By	Thanks, Han, I've added Bruyninckx' recording date to the entry. OkeH 6634 is also in this database.
xiphophilos 26th Mar 2024		78 RPM Tommy Dorsey - Symphony In Riffs / Hawaiian War Chant (Pa-hu-wa-hu-wai)	The Swedish images have been moved to a new Swedish entry, and the original with TT tax code has been moved up.
xiphophilos 26th Mar 2024		78 RPM Perry Como - When Tonight Is Just A Memory / I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	Good catch! I've moved the data from the duplicate release here and deleted it.
xiphophilos 26th Mar 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher / I'll Get By	Brunswick 6074 from 1931, reissued on Vocalion 4753 in 1939, was recorded by the Cab Calloway Orchestra, whereas these two tracks were recorded by Cab Calloway with Jimmy Carroll and His Orchestra. So no, they are not the same. I am not aware of the Columbia release. What is its catalog number?

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