Latest Updates - Larry Cross

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Comment by mister_tmg:

The Jerry Vale song wasn’t released until 1972, and has different writers! https://www.45cat.com/record/310042

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Comment by Stuart Ralls2:

If i could write a song was originally recorded by U S singer Jerry Vale. As far as I know it wasn't a hit. Embassy often went off the beaten track early days with music selection on sometimes coupling American hits with a British Hit or even selecting music that had not charted anywhere Greensleeves/Noel Gay medley being an example. After introduction of LPs and EPs in 1958 the Embassy singles tended to follow the British chart music more with two more well known hits on esch disc. Most of the 50s releases were never meant to be copycat versions as most people thought but affordable alternate offerings.

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Comment by jimmysaville53:

Please could anyone who owns this disc upload mp3's or YouTube videos of both tracks onto this site. Neither of them are currently available anywhere on the internet at present. Thanks.

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Comment by jimmysaville53:

Please could anyone who owns this disc upload a mp3 or YouTube video of "Too Young To Go Steady" onto this site. It is currently not available anywhere on the internet at present. Thanks.

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Comment by jimmysaville53:

Please could anyone who owns this disc upload mp3's or YouTube videos of both tracks onto this site. Neither of them are currently available anywhere on the internet at present. Thanks.

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Comment by jimmysaville53:

Thanks mister_tmg for this info. I guess this confirms that Embassy releases were not 100% exclusively cover versions of UK releases after all.

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Comment by mister_tmg:

Ah, another Billy Merrin composition published by Dave Toff. The British Library have the sheet music for this one with the date 1954. So it appears to be the correct title. The BL don't have any other recordings of the title, but they don't have everything issued by any means. However, I suspect that these Billy Merrin numbers were not recorded by anyone else other than the Embassy artists. Perhaps it was a similar scenario to the earlier Woolworths label, Crown, which I recall used a popular song on one side and an unknown song on the other, as they had bought a whole batch cheaply from the publisher.

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Comment by jimmysaville53:

Does anyone know who recorded "If I Could Write A Song" apart from Larry Cross? Was that the correct title? There is no reference anywhere on the internet of a song with that title that was released in the UK in 1954 or earlier.

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Comment by jimmysaville53:

Please could anyone who owns this disc upload mp3's or YouTube videos of both tracks onto this site. Neither of them are currently available anywhere on the internet at present. Thanks.

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Comment by Mike Gann:

Year of release added

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Comment by SeverlyWarpedRecord:

Now Voyager is a Bette Davis movie from 1942, so if I had to guess I’d say this record came out in 1942-43, but I could be wrong