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Member	Item		Review/Comment
xiphophilos 23rd Mar 2024		78 RPM Bob Grant - Peter Parker The Parrakeet / Repeated Phrases	Based on the labels, this record does not feature "Repeated Phrases" on a second track on the A side; "Repeated Phrases" is the title of the B side.
xiphophilos 23rd Mar 2024		78 RPM Jean Hippach - Caro Mio Ben	These private recordings were a not inexpensive way to have one's own voice immortalized. Around 1917, Columbia responded to an inquiry of the black tenor Roland Hayes, as Tim Brooks reports here, that they could record him privately for "a base price of $50 to make one ten-inch master, with three single-faced pressings provided. Piano accompaniment was included." Copies of the recording cost extra. Per Brooks, "Columbia charged $1 each for the first 50 copies of a ten-inch, single faced disc, declining to about 60¢ each in quantities of 500." So someone who wanted 50 copies of their own record paid $100. In today's dollars, that would be the equivalent of $1,793.79 (source).
xiphophilos 20th Mar 2024		78 RPM Regensburger Domchor (Domspatzen) - Mariae Wiegenlied (Maria sitzt am Rosenhag) / Wiegenlied (Schlafe mein Prinzchen)	Okay, I've moved the Swedish labels to their own entry at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/eg6786se
xiphophilos 19th Mar 2024		78 RPM Regensburger Domchor (Domspatzen) - Mariae Wiegenlied (Maria sitzt am Rosenhag) / Wiegenlied (Schlafe mein Prinzchen)	So shouldn't we give the Swedish issue its own Swedish entry? The black and white Nipper version is a post-ww2 repress with purchase tax code ST (in force April 10, 1946 - November 12, 1947). The shorter text in the lower margin, only “The Gramophone Co. Ltd.”, was introduced in In May 1946. This E.G. export version, as far as I know, was not only exported to Sweden, but to the Benelux countries, all of Scandinavia, and Switzerland. That's why we list these export issues usually under the country of origin, the U.K.
xiphophilos 19th Mar 2024		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Creole Love Call / Black And Tan Fantasy	I'm surprised that this Scandinavian export label features a British purchase tax code. DTP was in force December 30, 1950 - April 15, 1953. Maybe HMV stamped the tax code onto these records because they could also be bought in Britain?
xiphophilos 18th Mar 2024		78 RPM Helen Louise And Frank Ferera - Hawaiian Medley Two-Step / Wailana Waltz	I have moved up the 1916 original labels.
xiphophilos 18th Mar 2024		78 RPM Frank Marvin And His Guitar - I Don't Work For A Living / Our Old Family Album	Labels 2754492 and 2754493 are West Coast pressings, 3519431 and 3519433 are West Coast pressings. The Los Angeles pressings characteristically feature the genre description not aligned with the spindle hole, but pushed toward the upper right corner, see https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/about/brunswick-us and Han Enderman's comment at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc548794us.
xiphophilos 17th Mar 2024		78 RPM Dick Robertson - Twenty-One Years (Is A Long Time) / Mary And Mother	Can't say anything about the label size. But I find it interesting that this label has both the small "o" between the gramophone horn and Nipper that characterized Oakland pressings and a small capital "H" in the scroll work at the top of the label that marks a Hollywood pressing. This must be a very early pressing by the RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood, which seems to have been active from at least 1935.
xiphophilos 12th Mar 2024		78 RPM Nat Gonella And His New Georgians - The Man Who Comes Around / Never Took A Lesson In My Life	A side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 12th Mar 2024		78 RPM [no artist listed] - 11. Bali (Koeta). Gendèr Wajang	Good eye. I've moved both towns into the title spaces to indicate from where in Bali these tunes are.
xiphophilos 12th Mar 2024		78 RPM Nat Gonella And His New Georgians - The Man Who Comes Around / Never Took A Lesson In My Life	I've now created a new entry for the Swedish labels.
xiphophilos 12th Mar 2024		78 RPM Maurice Chevalier - Louise / Valentine	Thanks, scrough! Your 1951-52 HMV catalog with its cut and pasted and, best of all, dated updates is indeed a goldmine! Thanks for letting me have a peek! The release dates for many of the items in the catalog also make clear that releases didn't always come out in the numerical order of the catalog number. I just noticed, for instance, that JO 89 came out in July 1948, JO 90 in November 1948, but JO 91-93 in August 1948.
xiphophilos 12th Mar 2024		78 RPM Maurice Chevalier - Louise / Valentine	It's great to be able to consult such primary sources! But how could you use a catalog from July 1951 to date JO-276 to Oct. 1951 and JO 298 to April 1952? Are planned future release dates mentioned?
xiphophilos 11th Mar 2024		78 RPM Nat Gonella And His New Georgians - The Man Who Comes Around / Never Took A Lesson In My Life	Yes, that large pressing ring seems also diagnostic for Swedish releases. It's the same as on this Swedish Columbia that was just uploaded: https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/8443se
xiphophilos 11th Mar 2024		78 RPM Maurice Chevalier - Louise / Valentine	I've corrected the release date of this record and of the Oscar Peterson to 1953. More corrections may be needed. As you said, Han, some of these dates seem to be guesses. The Eddie Arnold disc JO-396 was released in the US in January 1954, so 1954 seems like a likely release date for the HMV export version. I've corrected the three nearest cat. numbers (up to JO-406) after the Eddy Arnold releases also to 1954.
xiphophilos 2nd Mar 2024		78 RPM Peerless Quartette - The Music Of Wedding Chimes / Dear Old Sue	Switched track order per Talking Machine World.
xiphophilos 2nd Mar 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby	This is definitely not the only Danish Vera Lynn release. There were at least 14, and the record here was part of a release of six older hits that were issued together in 1950. We just don't have enough Danish members here that collect Vera Lynn records: Decca F 7300 (date 1939?): Vera Lynn With Arthur Young on the Novachord: "A Mother's Prayer At Twilight / Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye)" Decca F 9159 (1948): Vera Lynn with Robert Farnon And His Orchestra: "The Good-Night Waltz (Based On Auld Lang Syne) / This Perfect Day" Decca F 44101 (1950): "The Bells Of St. Mary's / When The Lights Go On Again" Decca F 44102 (1950): the entry here. Decca F 44103 (1950): "Concerto For Two (A Love Song) / You Can't Be True, Dear" Decca F 9442 (1950): Vera Lynn, Bob Farnon And His Orchestra – "On The Outgoing Tide / Love Finds A Way" Decca F 9817 (Jan. 1952): "Cry / And Love Was Born" Decca F 9927 (1952): Vera Lynn With Soldiers And Airmen of H.M. Forces, Accompaniment Directed By Roland Shaw –" Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart / From The Time You Say Goodbye" Decca F 40632 (1952): Vera Lynn, Soldiers And Airmen Of Her Majesty's Forces – "The Homing Waltz / When Swallows Say Goodbye" Decca F 10029 (1953): "Vera Lynn Sings" Decca F 10164 (1953): "Vera Lynn Popular Medley" Decca F 10463 (1955): Vera Lynn With The Johnston Brothers & The Roland Shaw Orchestra – "Addio Amore / I Do" Decca F 40702 (1955?): "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White / When I Grow Too Old To Dream" Decca F 44327 (1956): "A House With Love In It / Walk Hand In Hand"
xiphophilos 28th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby	These are 1941 and 1942 recordings, which is why this had originally been listed as 1942. The catalog number shows that this date was obviously wrong, but 1954 was off too. The same record was issued in Sweden in 1950 per smdb, and that seems a likely date for this Danish record as well.
xiphophilos 25th Feb 2024		78 RPM Lillian Glinn - All Alone And Blue / Come Home Daddy	Images 3501770 and 3501771 show the song titles on both sides set in a larger serif font, 12 point Century Expanded, which is typical for Oakland, CA pressings (from Fall 1926-1936 or later), cf. W.B.lbl’s comments at here. On images 3502132 and 3502135, in contrast, the song titles are set in the smaller sans-serif typeface 10-point Gothic Condensed No. 1, which the Bridgeport pressing plant began to use in 1927, see W.B.lbl's comments at here.
xiphophilos 25th Feb 2024		78 RPM Lillian Glinn - All Alone And Blue / Come Home Daddy	The variant label 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. The original is a Feb. 1927-1928 Viva-tonal style label marked as "Viva-tonal Recording" with three lines of registration text in English and Spanish under the Columbia logo and with two patent dates (Jan. 21, '13 and May 22, '23) at bottom. Infos per M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 32.
xiphophilos 25th Feb 2024		78 RPM Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Lost John Dean / Italy	The labels probably paid for a record's inclusion in The Talking Machine World's Advance Record Releases and so didn't often advertise Race Records and anything else that was primarily targeted at smaller, more limited audiences (like many foreign-language records).
xiphophilos 22nd Feb 2024		78 RPM Frank And James McCravy - I Want To Dream By The Old Mill Stream / Why Can't We Be Sweethearts (Once Again?)	Thanks for doing that, TheJudge!
xiphophilos 21st Feb 2024		78 RPM Ella Mae Morse - Shoo-Shoo Baby / No Love, No Nothin'	Thank you for identifying the typeface and the pressing plant!
xiphophilos 21st Feb 2024		78 RPM Frank And James McCravy - I Want To Dream By The Old Mill Stream / Why Can't We Be Sweethearts (Once Again?)	I respectfully disagree, The N for New York, C for Chicago, and L for Los Angeles recordings that appear on Brunswick labels between 1930 and 1931 have nothing to do with the catalog number. No one else adds them to the cat. nr. either. See, for example, the DAHR entry for this release at https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/271114/Brunswick_589
xiphophilos 21st Feb 2024		78 RPM Ella Mae Morse - Shoo-Shoo Baby / No Love, No Nothin'	My copy (variant 2) has a 30mm or 1.18" interior pressing ring and a small "o" close to the label in the B side runout. Since the 1st variant with the "Ƨ" is a Scranton pressing, I wonder if the small "o" and the pressing ring indicate a Clark Phonograph Record Company of Newark, NJ pressing. Apart from these two pressing plants, Capitol also contracted with Allied Record Manufacturing Co. of Los Angeles.
xiphophilos 17th Feb 2024		78 RPM Hawaiian Quintette - Aloha Oe (Farewell To Thee) / Kuu Home (Native Plantation Song)	Your newly added labels, historyofcountrymusic, are a repress on Fall 1923-1926 Victor Batwing label with shorter patent text (lists only 1908 patent) and note: “For best results use Victrola Tungs-tone Needles” to the left of the spindle hole, cf. M. W. Sherman, Collector's Guide to Victor Records, 2nd ed., page 84.
xiphophilos 17th Feb 2024		78 RPM The German Opera Orchestra - Serenade For String Orchestra Op. 48	First I thought this could be an auto-coupled release, but it doesn't look like it.
xiphophilos 17th Feb 2024		78 RPM Shannon Quartet - The Sidewalks Of New York / Maggie Murphy's Home	"Orthophonic Recording" is Victor's fancy name for an electrical recording. Your version is a repress on Spring 1928-Spring 1930 Scroll label with the phrase “Orthophonic Recording” above the Nipper trademark and "For best results, use Victor Needles" to the left of the spindle hole, cf. M. W. Sherman, Collector's Guide to Victor Records, 2nd ed., page 95
xiphophilos 17th Feb 2024		78 RPM Sigge Fürst - Stadsbudsvisan / Anna Maria	Which one is it now, older or newer? ;-)
xiphophilos 15th Feb 2024		Book Maximilian Böttcher - Die Wolfrechts	The publisher is called Antäus (not Intäus)-Verlag, after the Giant that challenged all passers-by to wrestling matches and defeated them. The name makes sense for a press that published Maximilian Böttcher's Blut und Boden-type fiction because Antaeus was a son of the Earth who regained new strength from his mother whenever someone wrestled him to the ground. It also seems an unintentionally ironic choice, given that Antaeus ended up losing against Hercules, the representative of human decency and civilization, when Hercules lifted him up into the air and crushed him to death. The press, however, survived the end of the Nazi regime. It was active from the early 1920s into the 1950s.

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