78 RPM - Comments by Bob Davis1

78 RPM - Comments by Bob Davis1

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Bob Davis1 20th Oct 2020		78 RPM Jimmie Adams And Bud Jamison (The Rolling Stones) - Down By The Old Rio Grande / Mountain Angel (1930)	Even older than Keith Richards.
Bob Davis1 22nd Mar 2020		78 RPM Jimmy Wilson - Tin Pan Alley / Big Town Jump (1953)	I picked up a copy of this back in 1958, when the music store where I worked was clearing out the 78s. Some really deep blues, sounds like it could have been recorded in some dive bar in West Oakland. Robert Geddins was the owner of Big Town Records--he supported himself and his record business as a radio and TV repair tech.
Bob Davis1 14th Mar 2020		78 RPM Herb Jeffries - Twilight / Pagan Love Song (1949)	This may answer the questions about old record labels that had "Not licensed for radio broadcast" printed on them. I remember hearing recordings by Herb Jeffries on the radio back about 70 years ago. Many years later I would learn that he starred in a number of low-budget Western movies as "The Bronze Buckaroo", becoming a screen hero that the "colored" kids could relate to.
Bob Davis1 27th Dec 2019		78 RPM Phil Harris - That's What I Like About The South / Brazen Little Raisin (1945)	I have a copy of this that my parents bought back in the 1940s. They had seen the Phil Harris orchestra "live" back in the 1930s. I was rather amused to find (many years later) that Mr. Harris was really from Indiana. We could do a segue from "That's What I Like About the South" to "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie" by Tom Lehrer, which dates back to the early 1950s.