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Member	Item		Review/Comment
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		78 RPM Olive Goff - Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces / In Quelle Trine Morbide (1925)	"Olive" seems quite certain when you look at the capital O in the "Our happy work together will never be forgotten" sentence. And I would bet on a lady's handwriting.
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		78 RPM Olive Goff - Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces / In Quelle Trine Morbide (1925)	Clive could be Olive, although the only Olive Goff I found on the web had lived before 1925, see here.
fixbutte 15th Jun 2023		78 RPM "Texas" Alexander - Death Bed Blues / Mama's Bad Luck Child (1928)	Better legible labels uploaded and moved up.
fixbutte 3rd Jun 2023		78 RPM James Waynes - Gypsy Blues / Millionaire Blues (1950)	Better ones uploaded and moved up.
fixbutte 21st Apr 2023		78 RPM Alfred G. Karnes - Called To The Foreign Field / Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath The Clay (1930)	Possibly not. The original images on the source also show the full 10" record (fastened with a nail in the center hole for the photographs), so you can determine the actual label size (my guess: about 4"). I have produced a pair of better cropped labels, uploaded them here and moved them up.
fixbutte 14th Apr 2023		78 RPM Prairie Ramblers - Deep Elem Blues / Just Because (1935)	… which were also the original labels, see previous discussion, so moved up.
fixbutte 22nd Mar 2023		78 RPM The Robins - Don't Like The Way You're Doing / Come Back Baby (1949)	Changed release month from June to September 1949 because that was when the record was first mentioned in the Advance Rhythm & Blues Record Releases of the Billboard (September 24, 1949 issue, page 31).
fixbutte 10th Mar 2023		78 RPM Lennie Tristano Trio - I Can't Get Started / Out On A Limb (1947)	This record was released first as a single in March 1947 (see review in the Billboard of April 5, 1947) and some months later in the Keynote Album 147. Mercury 1062, now listed as released in October 1946, is actually a reissue, released after Keynote's bankruptcy and Mercury's acquisition of their catalog in 1948. Edit: all amended.
fixbutte 8th Mar 2023		78 RPM Pee Wee Crayton - Daybreak / When It Rains It Pours (1951)	Although Michel Ruppli gives the same lineup in his Aladdin discography and identifies the band as "Maxwell Davis All Stars", there are definitely no horns on both recordings as the YouTube clips evince. So I have deleted the given wind instrumentalists (i.e. Jake Porter, trumpet; Jack McVea, alto sax; Maxwell Davis, tenor sax; Maurice Simon, baritone sax) from the notes. (In fact, Maxwell Davis was in the Radio Recorders studio around the same time for the recordings of Aladdin 3114 and 3115, but only "with rhythm accompaniment", consisting of piano, guitar, bass, drums and bongo.) I have also flipped sides because regardless of the matrix numbers the "X" always indicates the top side on Aladdin records, whereas the "Q" stands for the flip side, and I have uploaded two Aladdin ads which confirm "Daybreak" as the top side of this record here.
fixbutte 3rd Mar 2023		78 RPM Floyd Dixon - Walkin' And Talkin' Blues / Girl Fifteen (1951)	Another pair of labels added and moved up because they were printed earlier, still with the "Price 79c Tax Incl." imprint which was actually dropped by Aladdin at the end of 1950. The record, however, was held back and came out only in March 1951, after three Floyd Dixon singles with higher numbers in the Aladdin catalog.
fixbutte 2nd Mar 2023		78 RPM Lil Green - Running Around In Circles / My Be-Bop Daddy (1950)	A-side label image and slightly better B-side label image added and both moved up.
fixbutte 24th Feb 2023		78 RPM Sonny Thompson - Mellow Blues (1952)	You're welcome, edlongus. You may fix stuff here with paint.net when you do some homework. I don't use anything else.
fixbutte 24th Feb 2023		78 RPM Sonny Thompson - Mellow Blues (1952)	Produced a pair of clean labels from your images (without the tape on Part 2), edlongus, and moved them up.
fixbutte 23rd Feb 2023		78 RPM The Cardinals - Shouldn't I Know / Please Don't Leave Me (1951)	Thanks for that anyway, edlongus. I've moved your A-side up and produced a clean B-side from your images (and moved it up as well). As you say, your images are only "slightly more focused" on the display, although they are quite clear in their original size. This is a well-known problem with the red channel of JPEG images (in contrast to PNG images), see this discussion from 2014: https://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/col5123522
fixbutte 4th Feb 2023		78 RPM Lester Young - Lover Come Back To Me / Jammin' With Lester (1946)	Original red labels uploaded. The later blue variant labels with the "Jazz Series" inscription appeared between mid-1947 and February 1950.
fixbutte 1st Feb 2023		78 RPM Lennie Tristano Trio - Lennie Tristano (1947)	This album was released in July or August 1947, chosen "the month's best" by reviewers of Metronome magazine of August 1947, see here. Mercury A-33, entered here as released in October 1946, is obviously a reissue, released after Keynote's bankruptcy and Mercury's acquisition of their catalog in 1948. Mod edit :- Mercury version now gives a later date.
fixbutte 31st Jan 2023		78 RPM The Almanac Singers - Talking Union: Dedicated To The Memory Of Joe Hill (1941)	Recorded May 1941 und actually released in 1941, not in 1942, see here. I have corrected it to July 1941, as the headline says, although the text with the quoted liner notes goes for an even earlier date ("Talking Union" went on sale in June 1941; it became the Almanac Singers' most enduring album, remaining in the Keynote catalog until Mercury absorbed the label in 1948.). Also subtitle (Dedicated To The Memory Of Joe Hill) added to the album title.
fixbutte 31st Jan 2023		78 RPM Joshua White - Southern Exposure: An Album Of Jim Crow Blues (1941)	Added subtitle (An Album of Jim Crow Blues) to the album title and corrected release date which was not 1942. According to Josh White: Society Blues by Elijah Wald, "the album [Southern Exposure] went on sale early in September" 1941 (p. 87), see here.
fixbutte 25th Jan 2023		78 RPM Rega Dance Orchestra - The Vamp / My Cairo Love (Egyptian Serenade) (1919)	Thanks cyeaman for the images of your record with mixed-up labels, and thanks xiphophilos for clarifying the "O.K.E. Heinemann" myth. Although I circulated the story myself, I have been doubting its validity for the last few years, as I have never found an evidence for it. Still it seems obvious that the first spelling of the label name was not just an accidental layout fancy but meant to highlight the initials of the owner and president of the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co. Anyway, his full name and the OkeH spelling (still without the logo) were prominently placed in the announcement of the first OkeH record in the Talking Machine World issue of May 15, 1918 (full-page advert after page 46 and article on page 95).
fixbutte 25th Jan 2023		78 RPM Bessie Smith - Bessie Smith Album (1937)	Three more original Columbia Notes label images added and moved up (sides E, F & G, {Images #3196912, 3196917 & 3196955}), so we now have all 12 sides with that design, six of them with the later TRADE MARK REGISTERED imprint flanking the Notes though. After these 12 labels and the album spine image three variant Columbia Notes labels are shown with the additional FULL RANGE RECORDING imprint {Images #1189146, 1189148 & 1189157}, used from late 1937 up to CBS's acquisition of ARC according to W.B.lbl. After the reissue album cover with the Columbia notes and CBS microphone nine record labels with the appropriate logo are displayed. As already said, this blue label design was only used in 1939, as CBS/Columbia was going to launch their "red labels" series in August 1939.
fixbutte 15th Jan 2023		78 RPM Milton Brown And His Brownies - Copenhagen / Who's Sorry Now (1935)	Missing A-side label eventually added.
fixbutte 6th Jan 2023		78 RPM Chick Webb - You Showed Me The Way / Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie (1937)	As the recently uploaded "sunburst" labels show, the original single record didn't have the inscriptions "Album No. 138 (12 Sides-3)" and "Album No. 138 (12 Sides-4)" respectively. The original B-side title was "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie", so not only an exclamation mark was added to the end of the album version, but also the name spelling was changed to "Charley" there (and the song composers were credited by their full names). In contrast to the original single labels, both sides of the album version show the orchestra lineup. Additionally, as we now have the original label images, there is no need to use the album release date (which obviously was after Chick Webb's premature death) for this entry. In fact, the original single was released shortly after the recording of both sides, in April 1937.
fixbutte 3rd Jan 2023		78 RPM Chick Webb - Chick Webb Memorial Album (1940)	Except that there were no "sunburst" labels with "Album No. 138" inscription and album side designation on them. The album came out in 1940, the sunburst design disappeared at the end of 1937.
fixbutte 31st Dec 2022		78 RPM "Porky" Freeman Trio - Rum And Coca-Cola / Boogie Woogie On Strings (1945)	Original labels eventually uploaded.
fixbutte 5th Dec 2022		78 RPM Cowboy Copas - Kentucky Waltz / Heartaches (1947)	Thanks, historyofcountrymusic, for uploading your original B-side label of "Heartaches", in addition to the existing "A"-side label from the later pressing with AA/A designation. You may also add your A-side label of "Kentucky Waltz" when it has the same brownish color probably belonging to the original pressing (in contrast to the existing reddish one).
fixbutte 3rd Dec 2022		78 RPM Brown's Ferry Four - Old Camp Meeting / There's A Light Guiding Me (1947)	Your dark brown A-side label "repaired" and both A/B label variants moved up. King didn't start the AA/A designation before April 1949, so these labels definitely belong to a later pressing.
fixbutte 24th Nov 2022		78 RPM Mabel Scott - A Bippity Be Bop Pony / Right Around The Corner From Basin Street (1949)	Sides reversed according to order of matrix numbers and Cash Box review (although "A Bippity Be Bop Pony" apparently did not come up to expectations commercially) and label images plus review uploaded.
fixbutte 31st Oct 2022		78 RPM Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats - I Love You Yes I Do / Sneaky Pete (1947)	Sally Nix' profiles on Discogs and Rate Your Music have been updated. @xiphophilos Convincing find, I will change the photograph description accordingly..I guess gnomon can confirm the 1955 date at first sight. @gnomon Good to know that you own your mom's 45 on Belmont H, so you may add the label images to the entry on 45cat one day. Anyway you are invited to add any info you want to your dad's and mom's records on 45worlds and 45cat.
fixbutte 27th Oct 2022		78 RPM Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats - I Love You Yes I Do / Sneaky Pete (1947)	Hello gnomon, before I found the article I was going to ask if your father played an instrument, presumably the piano, because he was such a gifted director, arranger and occasional composer. Now I know that he didn't, but as you suggest (and Whyperion paraphrases) he must have had some kind of understanding of the notes at least. I could find the complete photograph of your mother, Henry Glover and your father, apparently made at a recording session with Cathy Ryan on July 28, 1948 in New York, see https://www.gettyimages.de/fotos/lucky-millinder. Do you know who the other two men on the photograph are? And do you have an idea in which year your mother made the Belmont H record? From the single labels and design of the Bill Hein LP I guess it was in the early 1960s.
fixbutte 27th Oct 2022		78 RPM Udo Jürgens - Es waren weiße Chrysanthemen / Trippe-Trapp (1956)	To clarify things: 78rpm-maniac originally made his remark in the Notes section nearly nine years ago when adding this record on 23 January 2014, it was only moved to the Comments yesterday. In fact, Udo Jürgens is not 76 years old now but he died on 21 December 2014 at the age of eighty.

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