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Member	Item		Review/Comment
fixbutte 8th Jul 2022		78 RPM Norfolk Jazz Quartet - Dixie Blues / Quartet Blues (1923)	Version with "Quartet" spelling on B-side title and artist name exists though, see uploaded B-side label.
fixbutte 6th Jul 2022		78 RPM Brown's Ferry Four - Rockin' On The Waves / If We Never Meet Again (1946)	Thank you very much for your uploads, 83montlvr. For better legibility I have edited your A-side image and moved it up. I prefer the previous B-side image though (after having removed the grey square) because yours is very dark.
fixbutte 5th Jul 2022		78 RPM Jimmie Osborne - A Million People Have Died / God Has Taken My Flower (1952)	… which happen to be the A-side ("AA") of the promo (Dee Jay Special) twice. Added an image of the B-side ("A") and a better version of the A-side label, both of the promo as well (and moved them up).
fixbutte 2nd Jul 2022		78 RPM The Sundown Playboys - Saturday Nite Special / Valse De Soleil Coucher Sundown Waltz (1972)	Thanks, Break-In Master, for your comment. Unfortunately too late for mickey rat though because he passed away in early December 2021 (from the 45cat mod board).
fixbutte 23rd Jun 2022		78 RPM The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home / Wabash Blues (1921)	It's apparently still the same today, xiphophilos. On further research I have found an interesting link to the General Royalty Information of BMI, stating that - songwriters get one half of the royalties and publishers (who may be identical to the songwriters) get the other half - lyricist and composer generally get one half of the songwriters' share each, regardless whether it is an instrumental or vocal (lyric) performance of the song, if not the lyric and instrumental versions are known by different titles.
fixbutte 22nd Jun 2022		78 RPM The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home / Wabash Blues (1921)	xiphophilos wrote: Lyricist Ringle shouldn't have his name credited at all since this is an instrumental version without lyrics. Is it so when lyrics and melody were copyrighted together? Should a lyricist not be entitled to claim royalties for an instrumental version of a song? Many songs would not exist without the lyrics because the music was created in view of them, or because composer and lyricist were interacting. I don't know however what the legal situation is.
fixbutte 22nd Jun 2022		78 RPM The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home / Wabash Blues (1921)	xiphophilos wrote: In fact, the lyrics and the melody had been copyrighted together on September 16, 1921, 13 days before this Victor recording was made, according to the Catalog of Copyright Entries (1922), page 1316. Interesting, I should have researched that before posting. Does it have an effect on the recording date discussion for Isham Jones' original version of "Wabash Blues" on Brunswick 5065? (released after September 16, 1921 anyway)
fixbutte 21st Jun 2022		78 RPM The Benson Orchestra Of Chicago - Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home / Wabash Blues (1921)	I'd rather guess that Dave Ringle's name was added later because there were no lyrics to the melody when these recordings were made and even when the record was released. The presumably first vocal version of "Wabash Blues" was recorded by white vaudeville blues singer Dolly Kay on December 22, 1921, but it was still credited only to "Meinken" as composer when it was released on Columbia A3534 in February 1922. Whereas Dave Ringle actually was the writer of the lyrics, Fred Meinken wasn't the composer of the melody though. An early jazz standard by an unknown author, it was originally called "The Trombone Jazz" and was orchestrated in 1918 by Joseph E. Maddy who brought it to the attention of Isham Jones - who would make the most popular instrumental recording of "Wabash Blues" with his orchestra in August 1921 (Brunswick 5065), see Wikipedia.
fixbutte 20th Jun 2022		78 RPM Al Jolson - Movin' Man, Don't Take My Baby Grand! / Ragging The Baby To Sleep (1912)	Actually not identical regarding the B-side where the word VICTOR on the side of Nipper’s gramophone is missing (and "febrero 1904" patent is mentioned).
fixbutte 20th Jun 2022		78 RPM Al Jolson - Movin' Man, Don't Take My Baby Grand! / Ragging The Baby To Sleep (1912)	A set of clearer labels of the 1914 to 1916 repress uploaded (so mcchuggernaut's images may be hidden).
fixbutte 14th Jun 2022		78 RPM Mississippi Sheiks - Please Don't Wake It Up / Kind Treatment (1932)	Most discographies (including the Columbia 13/14000-D Series discography by Dan Mahony) date these recordings to October 24, 1931 in Atlanta, GA. The unconfirmed lineup for both sides is Walter Jacobs aka Walter Vinson on vocals and guitar and (probably) Lonnie Chatmon/Chatman on violin, see e.g. https://www.wirz.de/music/missheiks.htm. Bo Carter aka Armenter "Bo" Chatmon took part in the October 24 & 25 sessions but his vocals were released under his own name (on the OKeh label).
fixbutte 20th May 2022		78 RPM Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris - Rugged Road / Come Back Baby (1947)	A-side label with Harris' All-Stars personnel and better version of corresponding B-side label uploaded, and this set of labels moved up because they came apparently first. As Rudy Toombs actually was the composer of "Rugged Road Blues" (see here), the wrong attribution to Wynonie Harris had to be corrected on the later issue.
fixbutte 16th May 2022		78 RPM The Drifters - White Christmas / The Bells Of St. Mary's (1954)	Two reviews uploaded confirming "White Christmas" as the top side.
fixbutte 16th May 2022		78 RPM The Four Rockets - Little Red Wagon / Travelin' Light (1948)	Recorded on December 30, 1947, in New York at Empire Broadcasting Co., just before the second recording ban of 1948. Later releases from the same session came out under the new artist name The Trumpeteers.
fixbutte 26th Apr 2022		78 RPM Großes Blasorchester Mit Männerchor - Lore, Lore / Horst-Wessel-Lied (Die Fahne Hoch) (1933)	Re the B-side: for those who don't know it anyway see Wikipedia: The "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), also known by its opening words "Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise the Flag", lit. 'The Flag High'), was the anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis made it the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first stanza of the "Deutschlandlied". The "Horst-Wessel-Lied" has been banned in Germany and Austria since the end of World War II.
fixbutte 7th Apr 2022		78 RPM Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes And The Andrews Sisters - There's No Business Like Show Business / Anything You Can Do (1947)	Release month corrected from Dec 1947 to June 1947, as suggested by LBart0 and confirmed by Billboard clippings.
fixbutte 2nd Mar 2022		78 RPM Henry Spaulding - Cairo Blues / Biddle Street Blues (1929)	Released on September 5, 1929 (Thursday) according to Talking Machine World & Radio-Music Merchant, August 1929, page 133 (so current date is correct)
fixbutte 2nd Mar 2022		78 RPM Willie Harris - West Side Blues / What Makes A Tom Cat Blue (1929)	Released on September 12, 1929 (Thursday) according to Talking Machine World & Radio-Music Merchant, August 1929, page 133 (not on July 29, 1929)
fixbutte 2nd Mar 2022		78 RPM Coletha Simpson - Riverside Blues / Lonesome Lonesome Blues (1929)	Released on August 15, 1929 (Thursday) according to Talking Machine World & Radio-Music Merchant, August 1929, page 132 (not on July 5, 1929)
fixbutte 2nd Jan 2022		78 RPM Harry Owens And His Royal Hawaiians - Aloha No Wau I Ko Maka / The Laughing Song (1944)	Thanks for the B-side label image, han enderman. "San Antone" is an obvious shortening of the Texas town San Antonio, so it seemed possible that it was spelled in a different way on the official V Disc (e.g. San Anton' or San Antonio).
fixbutte 31st Dec 2021		78 RPM Harry Owens And His Royal Hawaiians - Aloha No Wau I Ko Maka / The Laughing Song (1944)	A-side label image meanwhile available (from an 2018 eBay auction, copy sold for $ 22) and uploaded, which doesn't clarify the mentioned B2 title spelling on this issue though. Could correct the A1 composer anyway (from Owens to Leleiohoku).
fixbutte 29th Dec 2021		78 RPM Jenkins' Sacred Singers - When I See The Blood / The Glory Land Way (1927)	@Mike Gann Your maroon labels with the "Pat'd … May 22, '23" inscription were also the original ones (first used in Jan 1927). The black labels with the "Pat'd … Re. 15688" inscription were not introduced before Sep 1928.
fixbutte 21st Dec 2021		78 RPM "Fats" Waller And His Rhythm - Ain't Misbehavin' (I'm Savin' My Love For You) / Moppin' And Boppin' (1948)	Well done, xiphophilos. Treated the same for US and UK issue on RYM.
fixbutte 17th Dec 2021		78 RPM Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Sugar Blues / Fan It (1936)	Set of first press black labels eventally added and moved up (in fact, Apes Ville unnoticedly had added first press images before which are inferior though, so they have been hidden).
fixbutte 12th Dec 2021		78 RPM Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Squeeze Me / Santa Claus Blues (1925)	Another version of "Santa Claus Blues" by Clarence Williams' Blue Five with Eva Taylor was released on OKeh 8245 in November 1925 (Talking Machine World, Nov 15, 1925, p. 198, "for December"). See also my comment on my list Hotter Than That: Louis Armstrong and OKeh's 8000 Race Records Series on RYM from some years ago: 8254 (Dec 1925/Jan 1926?) Talking Machine World, Jan 15, 1926, p. 167 ("for February") Both sides feature Louis Armstrong on cornet. Although announced for release early in 1926, this record apparently came out in December 1925, as the B-side was "a very slow reworking of the song recorded a week earlier, also released for the Christmas market", see The Louis Armstrong Discography. Against the B-side label, the Clarence Williams' Trio was an instrumental trio consisting of piano, banjo (played by Buddy Christian) instead of guitar, and cornet, and a vocal trio (Eva Taylor, Clarence Williams, and Clarence Todd) instead of a vocal duet.
fixbutte 2nd Dec 2021		78 RPM Randy Newman - The Beehive State / I Think It's Gonna Rain Today (1968)	Nice label images, Kevin Walsh1, that should be moved up after editing, and an interesting addditional article about this "mock-future antiquity".
fixbutte 2nd Dec 2021		78 RPM Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues / Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (1931)	Remember the fake image we hid in 2019? Even the song title was misspelled and the instrumentation was wrong there (piano instead of guitar).
fixbutte 2nd Dec 2021		78 RPM Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues / Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (1931)	It's apparently the same copy that was once pictured in the 78 Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 5 (1990), page 85, the source of the image uploaded to RYM by me in July 2021. The record is well-worn but the image here is better than the previous one.
fixbutte 23rd Nov 2021		78 RPM Gene Autry - You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) / Mexicali Rose (1936)	Dear benchwarrant17 Every word you write is true of course, and an excellent addition to my 22nd Apr 2015 comment, written as well after years of gathering information about the Columbia/ARC/Brunswick/Vocalion/CBS/OKeh/WB/Decca/Columbia imbroglio
fixbutte 16th Nov 2021		78 RPM Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol - Who Blew Out The Flame? / The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish (1938)	W.B.lbl: your last sentence sounds serious. I hope you are all right.

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