78 RPM - Comments by 23skidoo

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23skidoo 17th Jul 2023		78 RPM Bruce Marshall, Anne Lloyd, The Sandpipers, Mitchell Miller And Orchestra - The Lil' Bad Wolf / Tinker Bell (1951)	Sleeves and labels added. Note the label has a different cat # than the sleeve.
23skidoo 10th Jul 2023		78 RPM The Sandpipers, Mitch Miller And Orchestra - Wringle Wrangle / (I'm Lonely My Darlin') Green Grow The Lilacs (1956)	Variant labels added. Although the sleeve still references Mickey Mouse Club on my copy, the blue label omits that reference. Also in the process of scanning I noticed the incorrect credit on the sleeve (or is it incorrect label credit?) and had something added to the Notes about that.
23skidoo 10th Jul 2023		78 RPM Annie Oakley, The Sandpipers, Mitchell Miller And Orchestra - Ten Gallon Hat / I Gotta Crow (1955)	Labels and sleeve rear scans added. Should the artist credit read "Annie Oakley [Gail Davis]" since it's the actress performing in character?
23skidoo 9th May 2023		78 RPM Bill Haley and the 4 Aces Of Western Swing - Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals / Four Leaf Clover Blues (1948)	Incidentally, these singles appear to be the only place where Haley's band is credited as "4 Aces of Western Swing." The band was more widely known as the Western Aces.
23skidoo 2nd Apr 2023		78 RPM Bill Haley With Haley's Comets - Stop Beatin' Round The Mulberry Bush / Real Rock Drive (1952)	Interestingly according to 45cat this was released on 45 in September.. I didn't think the separated out the dates like that. Is November or September confirmed for release? This was the first single to be released under the Comets name but it took another year or so for them to start using "Bill Haley and the Comets" (or "His Comets") on the labels.
23skidoo 15th Mar 2023		78 RPM The Lifeguards - Everybody Out'ta The Pool / Teenage Tango (1960)	AKA Bill Haley's Comets, doing a little side gig during Haley's Decca contract.
23skidoo 27th Feb 2023		78 RPM Shorty Mc Millen With The Peter Pan Orchestra And Chorus - Cheyenne / Blue Tail Fly (1960)	Is the A side the theme from the TV series? The sleeve makes no mention of the TV show, though.
23skidoo 22nd Jan 2023		78 RPM Voco Orchestra With Voco-Choir - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Joy To The World (1949)	I will be adding scans once I am able to get to a Mac that allows me to circle-crop. Just noting that this is not a duplicate entry for X-524-2/X-624-2 as the cat #s and picture disc art are different.
23skidoo 2nd Nov 2022		78 RPM The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P. - End Of The War In Europe (1950)	@Mike Gann - thanks for the uploads! My scanner bed is just a tad too small to get an acceptable scan. Question: I know sometimes colours change in the scanning - my labels are more a darkish burgundy-red rather than the bright red shown here. Are yours darker red in "real life" too?
23skidoo 28th Oct 2022		78 RPM The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P. - End Of The War In Europe (1945)	Also released in the UK on His Master's Voice J0.202; though that label (which I am unable to scan at the moment) is the standard HMV Nipper graphic rather than Winston.
23skidoo 28th Sep 2022		78 RPM Various Artists - There Stands The Glass / Doggone It Baby I'm In Love	Keefer Sisters misspelled as Keffer Sisters on the label
23skidoo 4th Sep 2022		78 RPM Mickey Mouse And Donald Duck, Anne Lloyd, The Sandpipers, Mitch Miller And Orchestra - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Christmas Party (1954)	Added sleeve variants. I also have label variants that I will upload once I get to my work Mac and can do a circular crop. EDIT: Label variants added
23skidoo 14th Aug 2022		78 RPM Don Elliott And The Skip Jacks - High Hopes / Eatin' Goober Peas (1960)	Sleeve uploaded (Label to follow tomorrow). I'm submitting a correction on the artist name for the A side. As shown on sleeve and label, Sinatra isn't on this record; it's a cover version by Elliott that is said to be from a movie starring Sinatra.
23skidoo 4th Jul 2022		78 RPM Peter Pan Players - All Around The Mulberry Bush / Did You Ever See A Lassie?	Sleeve scans added. This is the sleeve that came with the "illustrated" label variant, which incidentally was on orange shellac. Rear sleeve had paper dolls that were to be cut out and placed over the record-player spindle to simulate two kids doing the A-side dance. Luckily no one got around to cutting up my copy!
23skidoo 22nd May 2022		78 RPM [no artist listed] - I Wish That I Were Santa Claus / Jingle Bells	Also released in a 7-inch variant with the same cat #, but with a die-cut shape (Santa's hat goes beyond the 7-inches, as does the reindeer's ear. Will upload an image when I fix my scanner. EDIT: Can anyone confirm that the version indexed here is indeed a 10-inch? Voco tended to just do 7-inch releases. To play it safe I'll ask a mod to change the category to "picture disc", which is accurate in any event. EDIT: Scans added.
23skidoo 6th Apr 2022		78 RPM Bill Haley With Haley's Comets - Green Tree Boogie / Rocket "88" (1954)	@Pridesale All Essex/Trans-World issues of Holiday tracks are the original 1951-52 recordings. Haley's first re-recording didn't happen until 1957 when he redid Rock the Joint for Decca.
23skidoo 28th Mar 2022		78 RPM Jimmie Rodgers - The Cow Han's Last Ride / Blue Yodel No. 12 (Barefoot Blues) (1933)	According to the liner notes of a 1980s picture disc (q.v.), this was the first picture disc. Can anyone confirm? (might have been a special edition).
23skidoo 26th Mar 2022		78 RPM Dick Byron, Bob Miller, Mike Stewart, Ralph Nyland, Mitchell Miller And Orchestra - Songs From Walt Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)	Added sleeve variants. Note the variant front sleeve omits the price and has a slightly different cat #: D174:25. The label however displays the original cat #.
23skidoo 26th Mar 2022		78 RPM Dick Byron, Bob Miller, Mike Stewart, Ralph Nyland, Mitchell Miller And Orchestra - Songs From Walt Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)	Yellow vinyl (or whatever equivalent).
23skidoo 28th Feb 2022		78 RPM Marty Robbins - El Paso / Running Gun (1960)	Does this include the verse that is often cut ("Just for a moment I stood there in silence...") or is this indeed the complete song?
23skidoo 26th Jan 2022		78 RPM Bill Haley And His Comets - Lean Jean / Don't Nobody Move (1958)	Someone feel free to correct me, but I believe this was Bill Haley's final American 78 release on Decca. I know there was a Canadian Decca 78 of Haley's next single, Whoa Mabel, but I can't find an indication of there being any 78s on Decca US beyond this point.
23skidoo 3rd Jan 2022		78 RPM Bill Haley Y Sus Cometas - Florida Twist / Negra Consentida (1961)	The label for this can be viewed on the UCLA Archives website here and here.
23skidoo 25th Aug 2021		78 RPM Bill And Loretta And The Saddlemen - Pretty Baby / I'm Crying (1951)	Were there orange and red label variants or are the differing colours a scanning issue?
23skidoo 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Old King Cole / Sing A Song Of Sixpence (1957)	Rear sleeve and label scans added. I can see why this was accidentally submitted to 45cat as the sleeve is advertising 45 rpm editions of these records. Which makes sense as, while Golden continued to make 78s into the 1960s, by 1957 78s were headed the way VHS headed once DVD came out.
23skidoo 1st Jun 2021		78 RPM Bill Haley And His Comets - I'm Gonna Dry Ev'ry Tear With A Kiss / Why Do I Cry Over You (1956)	This must have confused listeners to no end! They buy a single labelled the Comets, likely expecting to hear a new rock and roll smash like The Saints Rock and Roll and instead they get a couple of lively C&W numbers instead. Ironically, Haley DID record his first known bona fide rock and roll song at Atlantic - a cover of Ruth Brown's Teardrops from My Eyes (the original also being on Atlantic), predating his version of Rocket 88 by a year - but for reasons unknown it was rejected for release in 1950 and never saw the light of day until Bear Family included it in a box set in 2006. It still had a country sound, but it would have been more on-brand for Haley at the time.
23skidoo 4th Nov 2019		78 RPM Sonny Dae And His Knights - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock / Moving Guitar (1954)	In recent months I've come across a few articles that have erroneously referred to Haley's record as a cover of a black original. Just for the benefit of people doing research, Sonny Dae was the stage name for Paschal Vennitti (I might have that spelling wrong), and he and the band were white. It's likely folks are getting this song mixed up with one recorded earlier by Hal Singer that had the same title but was a totally different song. There's also another "Rock Around the Clock" by Wally Mercer but I've never seen a photo of Mercer.
23skidoo 4th Nov 2019		78 RPM Wally Mercer - Rock Around The Clock / Don't Wait Till Tomorrow (1952)	Since the video below is no longer available, I'll just note here that this "Rock Around the Clock" is a completely different song than the one made famous by Bill Haley. There were a couple of songs using the same title that came out before the Haley track, but completely different. Hal Singer also released one (which as of this writing hasn't been indexed under 78s or 45s yet).
23skidoo 29th Sep 2019		78 RPM Los Jodimars - Well Now, Dig This / Let's All Rock Together (1956)	Interesting that on this Mexican release the songwriter credit is given to Margaret Pingatore when other releases credit Frank Pingatore (not the US version of this single, which just credits "Pingatore"; I refer to later reissues).
23skidoo 29th Sep 2019		78 RPM Bill Haley With The Saddlemen - Icy Heart / Rock The Joint (1952)	@PGlo64 As noted, mislabelling doesn't always make a record more valuable (though sometimes it happens). But if you have a label that actually titles the track "Icy Hearts" - plural, with an S, rather than "Icy Heart" - can you upload a scan and mark it as a variant?
23skidoo 29th Sep 2019		78 RPM Reno Browne And Her Buckaroos - My Sweet Little Girl From Nevada / My Palomino And I (1950)	There is some debate as to whether these two recordings were actually made in 1950 or whether they were left-overs from when Haley recorded for Cowboy with the 4 Aces of Western Swing in 1948-49. This is based primarily on the fact they sound nothing like the recordings Haley was making in 1950 with the Saddlemen, such as the Atlantic single that came out soon before this one.

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