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Member	Item		Review/Comment
benchwarrant17 14th Oct 2021		78 RPM Al Jolson - April Showers / Swanee (1946)	both sides recorded August 10, 1945 Los Angeles
benchwarrant17 6th Oct 2021		78 RPM Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra - Avalon / Wishing (1920)	good work on verifying release date
benchwarrant17 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Lawrence Welk - Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette) / Pic-A-Nic-In (In The Park) (1947)	Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music recorded June27 1947 New York Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette) 73982 - New York, NY 1947/06/27 Pic-A-Nic-In (In The Park) 73979 - New York, NY 1947/06/27 I'm A Lonely Little Petunia (In An Onion Patch) 73978 - New York, NY 1947/06/27 Svenska Flicka 73981 - New York, NY 1947/06/27 KENTUCKY WALTZ 73980 - New York, NY 1947/06/27
benchwarrant17 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Lawrence Welk - Back Home In Illinois / Canadian Capers (1948)	Both sides recorded March 26, 1941 Back Home In Illinois 93624 Canadian Capers 93625=B According to Decca, these were all recorded on that date FRIENDLY TAVERN POLKA (v.P.Grina-S.Grundy) C93608 You Are My Sunshine (v.Jayne Walton) C93610 Clarinet Polka C93609 Canadian Capers 93625=B FLORES NEGRAS' C93623 CHANSONETTE C93622 You're My Darling (v.Jayne Walton) C93611 Back Home In Illinois C93624
benchwarrant17 30th Jul 2021		78 RPM Mills Brothers - I'll Be Around / Paper Doll (1942)	First hit chart October 24, 1942 for 1 week, then re-appeared on May 22, 1943. Hit no. 10 on August 7, finally no. 1 as already described. A slow buildup! Remember, 1942-43 was the Musicians strike, maybe without that Decca just drops it and moves on to new songs.
benchwarrant17 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM Prairie Ramblers - Do Lord Remember Me / This World Is Not My Home (1935)	Melotone 3100 Prairie Ramblers Do Lord Remember Me 17234 CQ8503 - 1935/04/02 Melotone 3100 Prairie Ramblers This World Is Not My Home 17233 BA33449 - 1935/04/02 I show April 2
benchwarrant17 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM Sweet Violet Boys - Chiselin' Mama / Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down (1939)	Hit #2 on Billboard Hillbilly chart Dec 30, 1939 Prairie Ramblers I’m just a Poor Hillbilly Looking fer a Hill #4 on same chart they needed 2 names to get all their music out
benchwarrant17 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM The Sweet Violet Boys - Sweet Violets No. 2 / Down By The Old Mill Stream (1936)	Vocalion 3256 Sweet Violet Boys DOWN BY THE OLD MILL STREAM C1121=2 - Chicago, IL 1935/10/28 Tell Taylor Vocalion 3256 Sweet Violet Boys Sweet Violets No. 2 C1295=3 - - 1936/03/23 Bob Miller exact dates
benchwarrant17 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM The Sweet Violet Boys - Hop Pickin' Time In The Happy Valley / She Came Rolling Down The Mountain (1940)	Vocalion 3219 Sweet Violet Boys Hop Pickin' Time In The Happy Valley 17962=1 - - 1935/08/15 (none) Vocalion 3219 Sweet Violet Boys She Came Rolling Down The Mountain C1297=2 - - 1936/03/23 (none) those are the recording dates It definitely exists!
benchwarrant17 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM Sweet Violet Boys - I Give In So Easy / Show Me A Man That Won't (1940)	Show Me A Man That Won't WANT WOMEN
benchwarrant17 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM Sweet Violet Boys - I Haven't Got A Pot To Cook In / Hurry, Johnny, Hurry (1937)	Robert Miller-Johnny Wells (wtf is Rellim haha) >>>Trebor Rellim per Vocalion discography recorded Oct 13 1936 side 2 rec Feb 14 1935
benchwarrant17 6th Jul 2021		78 RPM The Sons Of Dixie - Bugle Two-Step / Those Blue Eyes Don't Sparkle Anymore (1941)	agreed recorded October 7, 1941
benchwarrant17 3rd Jul 2021		78 RPM Jerry Abbott And The Main Streeters - Get A Move On, Cowboy / Tend To Your Knitting (1942)	Billboard, Dec 12, 1942, page 68 catching on in Los Angeles
benchwarrant17 27th Jun 2021		78 RPM Clyde McCoy - Tear It Down / Sugar Blues (1935)	Great post, I knew of this record, but I long for background. Here is some more. Billboard July 26, 1941 rates S.B. #3 Hillbilly tune for the month of July 1941. Where they decided to put it in Hillbilly category I have no idea ( Hillbilly became "Country" over the years.) Why it is in a semi-worthless 1941 list I have no idea yet. I have collected enough information to produce good CW year-end charts for 1942-1945. Billboard crappy Hillbilly charts began January 8, 1944. There are no charts for 1942 and 1943, and 1944-1945 are extremely poor; half of the songs ranked are not Country or Hillbilly, they are like Sugar Blues, belong in the Race/Harlem or Polka divisions. I completely reverse engineered their chart and information, and will make new charts after I finish the earlier ones. I know I would have loved some decent charts when I was collecting, and it is good to have something to argue over, you learn a lot that way.
benchwarrant17 25th Jun 2021		78 RPM Louise Massey And The Westerners - Beer And Skittles / Quiera Mi Jesusita (1940)	writer - Larry Wellington (plays in the band) recorded Oct 11, 1940
benchwarrant17 24th Jun 2021		78 RPM Jimmie Revard And His Oklahoma Playboys - My Little Girl I Love You / It's My Time Now (1937)	Here are the top Hillbilly Folk records of 1942 1. Gene Autry Tweedle-O-Twill 2. Elton Britt There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere 3. Ernest Tubb Walking the Floor Over You 4. Carson Robison 1942 Turkey in the Straw 5. Zeke Manners & His Gang When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again 6. Ernest Tubb When The World Has Turned You Down 7. Gene Autry Deep in the Heart of Texas this is for the calendar year 1942!! After you add the several months of 1943 charts for nos. 1 & 2, and the 1941 charts for Walking the Floor, the outcome is 1. Star Spangled Banner 2. Tweedle Walking the Floor is no. 1 record of 1941, biggest hit of Tubb's career 1943 no. 1 is Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter, also top record of early 1940s (1940-44) All info comes from Folk-Hillbilly weekly columns from Billboard they didn't start chart until Jan 8 1944, but they gave regional info for several years so my chart is not perfect, but there were so few records then, and the rankings are good
benchwarrant17 24th Jun 2021		78 RPM Jimmie Revard And His Oklahoma Playboys - My Little Girl I Love You / It's My Time Now (1937)	Great work guys FYI My Little Girl re-released 1948 20-3117 I had to identify these records from Billboard Jan 31 1942 HILLBILLY RECORDINGS Jan 1942 You Are My Sunshine - Gene Autry, Airport Boys Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You - Jimmy Wakely My Little Girl - Jimmy Revand Barstool Cowboy - Spike Jones Frisky Fiddlers' Polka - Curley Hicks and His Taproom Boys Tears on My Pillow - Gene Autrey I Wouldn't Trade the Silver in My Mother's Hair - Ambrose Haley and His Ozark Ramblers Whoever wrote this is from the Beverly Hillbillies - Jethro Bodine
benchwarrant17 24th Jun 2021		78 RPM The Sons Of Dixie - Bugle Two-Step / Those Blue Eyes Don't Sparkle Anymore (1941)	Go here for recording date, matrix, confirmation of release date Billboard reported Feb 1942 hope bbcode works https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/64950/Bluebird_B-8873 Company Matrix No. Take Number Date Title/Artist Victor BS-071103 [1]1R 10/7/1941 Bugle two-step / Sons of Dixie Victor BS-071107 1 10/7/1941 Those blue eyes don't sparkle any more / Sons of Dixie
benchwarrant17 10th Jun 2021		78 RPM Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe) - Beautiful Brown Eyes / Sittin' On Top Of The World (1943)	Uploaded page 25 of "The Billboard" magazine Feb 6, 1943 See section "This Week's Records" released Jan 30 - Feb 6 1943 This record is listed under "Folk Records", which is how C&W was described at this time. There is an additional supporting section on Decca record releases This is pretty solid evidence for when this record was released Of course, there is always a possibility this was a re-release of the Oct 1942 issue Below are the matrix numbers and recording dates of the 2 sides SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD C90262-A Recorded Aug 20, 1935 Chicago, IL BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES C92041=A Recorded April 7, 1940 source Decca Records Interesting, this was during musicians strike, so Decca was digging into it's catalog to release records. That's why recording dates are so old. Their last session for Decca was April 26, 1941, according to the records I have I found this release Decca 5190 I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World / Four Or Five Times - 03-36 Also, their next recording session was for King Records in 1946 My information may have some holes in it, but the Decca info looks pretty solid, using multiple sources to verify as best I can. Love ancient Country music from the 1930s-40s
benchwarrant17 16th Feb 2021		78 RPM Fred Astaire - I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket / We Saw The Sea (1936)	both sides Recorded January 30, 1936
benchwarrant17 16th Feb 2021		78 RPM Fred Astaire - Cheek To Cheek / No Strings (1935)	release date Aug 1935 not Aug 8 1935 A Side: mx B-17732=1 B Side: mx B-17733=1
benchwarrant17 24th May 2018		78 RPM Sam Cooke - Desire Me / For Sentimental Reasons (1957)	Thanks for the info on the other "For Sentimental Reasons"; I need to add that the King Cole Trio version which you described was recorded on August 22 1946, hit the charts in November, and reached No. 1 on December 28, 1946, beating out another new record "The Christmas Song", which was No. 3. By 1951, Nat had gone solo and was turning out hits like Mona Lisa and Too Young. It was his first No. 1 record for 6 weeks (according to my spreadsheet), Capitol 304, written by Ivory Deek Watson and William Best like you said.
benchwarrant17 17th Apr 2018		78 RPM Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys - What Would You Do With Gabriel's Trumpet / Blue Ridge Sweetheart (1939)	What Would You Do With Gabriel's Trumpet composed by Roy Acuff; Blue Ridge Sweetheart by Joseph M. Davis-Spencer Williams
benchwarrant17 17th Apr 2018		78 RPM Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys - Stuck Up Blues / Lying Woman Blues (1941)	Look carefully at images this is Conqueror 9808 Lying Woman Blues/Stuck Up Blues recorded Chicago, IL 1941/04/29 released 11/1941; Conqueror 8808 recorded by Gene Autry - That's Why I'm Nobody's Darling/The Convict's Dream released 1937 [Thanks, fixed and info added. Mod.]
benchwarrant17 13th Apr 2018		78 RPM Spade Cooley - I Guess I've Been Dreaming Again / Steel Guitar Rag (1948)	In case anybody is interested re “Steel Guitar Rag”, Milsten was David Milsten, Bob Wills’ lawyer; don’t know how he got his name on this writing credit
benchwarrant17 13th Apr 2018		78 RPM Spade Cooley - You'll Rue The Day / Devil's Dream (1948)	Minor clarification - “Devil's Dream” written by Spade Cooley and Pedro DePaul (accordion player in band); error on label of hyphen between Pedro and DePaul makes it read like two people.

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