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fixbutte 11th Jul 2021		78 RPM Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman / What A Time (1929)	Thanks very much, but are you sure? There's another one by Jim Jackson that could have been released on August 2, 1929: I'm Wild About My Lovin' / Goin' Round The Mountain, Victor V-38525.
fixbutte 11th Jul 2021		78 RPM Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman / What A Time (1929)	According to the cat# this one was not released in 1928 but in 1929, either on April 5 or on May 3. Can you help with the correct date, Mike Gann?
fixbutte 10th Jul 2021		78 RPM Cantor Josef Rosenblatt - Hinini Heoni Mimaas (I Came Before Thee) / Yaale (Supplication) (1938)	Like all Victor records with a "V-" cat# this one was not issued before 1929 (and not later than 1930).
fixbutte 10th Jul 2021		78 RPM Smyth County Ramblers - My Name Is Ticklish Reuben / Way Down In Alabama (1929)	This one with the correct cat# V-40144 was probably released in November 1929 instead of 1928.
fixbutte 10th Jul 2021		78 RPM Ishman Bracey - Leavin' Town Blues / The Four Day Blues (1930)	Released in Dec 1929 or (rather) Jan 1930 instead of 1928 according to the Victor cat#.
fixbutte 10th Jul 2021		78 RPM Frank Stokes - I Got Mine / How Long (1929)	Probably issued in June 1929 instead of 1928. Can you add the date please, Mike Gann?
fixbutte 10th Jul 2021		78 RPM Eva Parker - Careless Love / You're Going To Leave The Old Home, Jim (1929)	Another one entered as released in 1928 but actually released in February 1929 according to the cat#, Can you add the correct date, Mike Gann (Feb 8 or 22)?
fixbutte 9th Jul 2021		78 RPM Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - South / She's No Trouble (1929)	As shown on the Dave Swinger Blogger blog, "South" was actually available on single records for at least 70 years, until RCA stopping making vinyl records (later on 45: RCA Victor 47-2956 c/w Bunny Berigan's "Frankie And Johnnie", and 447-0880 c/w Earl Hines' "Boogie Woogie On The Saint Louis Blues" in the Gold Standard Series).
fixbutte 9th Jul 2021		78 RPM Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - South / She's No Trouble (1929)	According to its cat# this very successful record (reissued on Victor 24893 in April 1935 and available on RCA Victor with that cat# until the mid-1950s) was not released in 1928 (as originally submitted) but in February 1929. Mike Gann, owner of John Bolig's Victor Black Label Discography: 22000, 23000, 24000, V-38000, V-38500 and V-40000 Series, can you help with the accurate day (apparently 8 or 22)? Anyway this is another proof for the bizzare dates in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 book, who lists January 26, 1929 as this record's entry in the not yet existing US pop charts, i.e. before it was actually released. Edit: Found it myself over there, apparently added by our own xiphophilos: "Both sides were originally released on February 22, 1929 as Victor V-38021." So I have edited the release date here accordingly.
fixbutte 29th Jun 2021		78 RPM Nora Lee King - Let Me Rock You Home / I'm Not That Way Any More (1942)	What Do They Want?: A Jazz Autobiography by Sammy Price lists Ham Jackson on guitar and "probably" William "Smitty" Smith on double bass besides Nora Lee King and Sammy Price on the A-side session, see here.
fixbutte 21st Jun 2021		78 RPM Earl Forest - Baby, Baby / Rock The Bottle (1952)	Uploaded A-side label with Memphis, TN, address suggests an original release before Duke Records was taken over by Don Robey's Peacock Records, and indeed, this record was already reviewed in Cash Box, June 14, 1952, page 18.
fixbutte 21st Jun 2021		78 RPM Johnny Ace - My Song / Follow The Rule (1952)	The original Duke 102 (Tri-State, Memphis, TN, label) was not released in August 1952 but already in June 1952, see review in Cash Box, June 21, 1952, page 16, or even earlier - "My Song" was listed at #8 on the regional "Hot in Memphis" R&B chart in the same Cash Box issue. When Duke Records was taken over by Don Robey, owner of Peacock Records, Houston, TX, in August 1952, Duke 102 was marketed again and reviewed in Cash Box for a second time in the August 16, 1952 issue (Award O' The Week - page 18).
fixbutte 11th Jun 2021		78 RPM Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe) - Beautiful Brown Eyes / Sittin' On Top Of The World (1943)	The previous date (Oct 19, 1942) was probably taken from Cary Ginell's Decca Hillbilly Discography 1927-45, where it says under Release Dates: "In the Decca label copy books, one piece of information included on each page was a date. This date referred to that time when the information on the record label was printed. In comparing this date with Decca advertisements showing new releases, it can be determined that the records were released within a month after the date shown on the label copy pages. In some cases, the labels were corrected (usually to change the composer credit). When this was done, an additional page immediately followed the original page, showing the correction and indicating a new date. It has not yet been determined whether or not actual records bearing the original uncorrected label were ever released." In this case, the original date for Decca 6079 was "10/19/42" and it was changed to "1/7/43". In view of this and the timeframe in the Billboard issue (Released January 30 thru February 6, 1943), I consider a late January 1943 release more likely than a February 1943 release and have changed it like that.
fixbutte 20th May 2021		78 RPM Carlisle Brothers - Rainbow At Midnight / Live And Learn (1946)	[YouTube Video] Here's the Carlisle Brothers' version of "Rainbow At Midnight". Do I hear "The Tennessee Waltz" in it, yet to be composed by Pee Wee King (with words by Redd Stewart) "close to Christmas in 1946" according to Wikipedia?
fixbutte 20th May 2021		78 RPM Carlisle Brothers - Rainbow At Midnight / Live And Learn (1946)	The Carlisle Brothers' recording of "Rainbow At Midnight", although virtually ignored by the Billboard reviewer in behalf of the B-side "Live And Learn", made it to #5 on the Juke Box Folk chart (week ending Oct 18, 1946, miscredited to Bill Carlisle only), and Ernest Tubb later had his third #1 on the Juke Box Folk chart with his version of the song. According to Praguefrank the instrumentation is just Bill Carlisle on rhythm guitar and Cliff Carlisle on steel guitar and both are on vocals, but the A-side recording sounds more like it reads on the label: "Vocal Trio with String Band", with apparently a wind instrument (a clarinet?) added at least. The same (vocal trio with string band) seems to be true for the B-side that I have not heard yet, see Billboard review: "There's little of interest in the waltz, but a considerable amount of outdoor appeal is lodged in Cliff Carlisle's Live and Learn, here given voice to by the trio. A steel guitar kicks things off on this side, the string band plays along behind the boys and a dancey beat is maintained." Maybe someone (Mike Gann?) can help out with more details of the session.
fixbutte 19th May 2021		78 RPM Carlisle Brothers - Rainbow At Midnight / Don't Tell Me Your Worries (1946)	Additional set of labels with original label design uploaded, the last one that was missing from the early King numbers 500 (November 1943) to 543 (July 1946), see my The King of Hillbilly - King 500 / 1000 Series list. Surprisingly it already has "Don't Tell Me Your Worries" as the B-side, which replaced the original flip side "Live And Learn" only around August 1946 according to the Billboard advance information.
fixbutte 13th May 2021		78 RPM Tiny Bradshaw - After You've Gone / Salt Lake City Bounce (1944)	Only that the information from your link is apparently wrong, see the records on our database and the uploaded Regis back catalogue: Tiny Bradshaw's "After You've Gone" b/w "Salt Lake City Bounce" is on Regis 1010 and his version of "Straighten Up And Fly Right" b/w "Bradshaw Bounce" in on Regis 1011 (not 1010 as they say there).
fixbutte 11th May 2021		78 RPM Tiny Bradshaw - After You've Gone / Salt Lake City Bounce (1944)	@Mike Gann I don't know where you found the information for your note "immediately reissued as Regis 1011 with the correct catalog no.". As there is another Tiny Bradshaw coupling with no. 1011 on the Regis label, "Straighten Up And Fly Right" and "Bradshaw Bounce", I doubt that this one here was actually reissued with another number. In addition, both records are listed in the Regis Back Catalogue in a label ad in the Billboard December 9, 1944 issue (now uploaded).
fixbutte 11th May 2021		78 RPM Hal Mitchell - Mitch's Idea / Let's Pitch A Boogie Woogie (1944)	@slholzer "I'm So Disappointed In You" was sung by (female) Albennie Jones accompanied by the Regis house band, the Ambassadors Of Rhythm, "Buster's Mess" was an instrumental only by the band. There was another vocal/instrumental coupling on Regis 106, "Ain't It Hard (To Love Another Woman's Man)" and "Alcazar Jump", recorded in March 1943 and reviewed in Billboard November 13, 1943. As the record was miscredited to "Albino Jones And Ambassadors" on both sides, Billboard took "Albino" for the bandleader and the singer as an "unbilled blues shouting gal". As you say, "I'm So Disappointed In You" b/w "Buster's Mess" was actually released on Regis [S-]109 sometime in 1944, and it was still available in Dec 1944 as a Regis label ad in the Billboard December 9, 1944 issue shows (now uploaded). The same ad also includes this record here, Regis 1009 by Hal Mitchell. So, as Marv Goldberg says, "it's possible, but highly improbable, that S-109 was reissued as Regis 1009". Marv Goldberg has much more about the "Rhythm & Blues, Blues, and Jazz singer named Albennie Jones, ... highly regarded by her peers, however, she was never a hit with the public" here: http://www.uncamarvy.com/AlbennieJones/albenniejones.html
fixbutte 6th May 2021		78 RPM Campbell And Burr - I'm In Heaven When I'm In My Mother's Arms / There's A Vacant Chair At Home Sweet Home (When The World Goes Back On You) (1920)	Release date could be specified as October 20, 1920, see uploaded newspaper clipping from that day where it reads: "Complete November List Now on Sale", confirming again that new records on Columbia's monthly catalog supplements were made available to the public on the 20th of the previous month (except the "Mid-Month" records that were released on the 10th).
fixbutte 4th May 2021		78 RPM Al Jolson - Tell Me / Wonderful Pal (1919)	Actually released on December 10, 1919, as seen on Columbia's "Mid-Month List", see uploaded newspaper clipping.
fixbutte 4th May 2021		78 RPM Nora Bayes - Freckles / Ev'rybody Calls Me Honey (1919)	Newspaper clipping uploaded showing this was a "Mid-Month List" record, actually released on December 10, 1919, although listed in the "Advance Record Bulletins for January, 1920" of the Talking Machine World, December 15, 1919.
fixbutte 4th May 2021		78 RPM Selvin's Orchestra - Sal-O-May / Canadian Capers (1921)	As already confirmed for Columbia records of the time, Brunswick records for a specific month were available on the 20th of the previous month as well, see uploaded ad from Glendale Daily Press December 20, 1921: "JANUARY Brunswick Records - On Sale Today". The list includes all records from Brunswick's January 1922 list with catalog numbers from 2151 to 2164 and numbers 5069, 10047, 10048, 13030, 30022 and 30023.
fixbutte 3rd May 2021		78 RPM Ted Lewis Jazz Band - I'll See You In C-U-B-A / The Moon Shines On The Moonshine (1920)	Unfortunately, Columbia's Mid-Month List was not always published in the The Talking Machine World issue of the current month. The announced "Special June Mid-Month List" in the May 15, 1920 issue just meant what it said. As the uploaded clipping from The Glendale Evening News, June 10, 1920, page 3 shows, the said Mid-Month list was on sale on that day (and not in mid-May, as suggested).
fixbutte 3rd May 2021		78 RPM Al Jolson - That Wonderful Kid From Madrid / I'll See You In C-U-B-A (1920)	A Columbia dealer's ad in the Glendale Evening News of May 10, 1920 has this record from the "Mid-Month List Now on Sale" (see uploaded clipping), so another confirmation of the 10th of the previous month as release day for Columbia's mid-month list.
fixbutte 3rd May 2021		78 RPM Marshall P. Lufsky - Through The Air / You And I (1917)	Btw, here's an explicit confirmation by the "renowned website DAHR" itself, basically covering the whole interval from 1901 to 1934, though not specifying the 10th and 20th as "official" release days: Appendix A: Matrix and Catalog Number Dating Charts ...Discs were announced monthly throughout most of this period, and the monthly supplement in which the record was first listed defines the official month of release. Columbia (and its competitors) allowed dealers to place new releases on sale a week or so before the end of the preceding month, however, so a “January” release would actually have been available in late December.
fixbutte 30th Apr 2021		78 RPM Marshall P. Lufsky - Through The Air / You And I (1917)	As shown by xiphophilos, new records on a Columbia month list (catalog supplement) were apparently released on the 20th of the previous month, and from September 1917 on there was an additional Mid-Month List with a selection of eight records released on the 10th of the previous month, "to get more business from the 10th to the 20th" to the Columbia dealers, see Talking Machine World July 15, 1917, page 16-17. Accordingly, eight records of the January 1918 Columbia list, including the seasonal "Christmas Morning At Clancy's" record (Columbia A2402), were already released on the 10th December 1917, see The Evening Star, Tuesday, December 11, 1917, page 14: Columbia Mid-Month Records - Just Released. The seven Columbia records besides A2402 from this mid-month list can be identified as A2398, A2399, A 2403, A2308, A2309, A2310 and A5998. Consequently, the other 30 records from the January 1918 Columbia supplement as displayed in the Talking Machine World would have been released on the 20th December 1917. As known from later lists and catalogs, Columbia would have three release days from at least 1924 to the end of 1928: the 10th, the 20th and the 30th. It appears that the third of these release days, the 30th, had not been installed in 1917.
fixbutte 24th Apr 2021		78 RPM Dale Hawkins - Poor Little Rhode Island / Every Little Girl (1960)	An entry on the Online Discographical Project doesn't mean much. For example, they have all Aladdin records there on https://www.78discography.com/Aladdin3000.htm - up to number 3468 which was released on 45 in February 1961, see http://www.45cat.com/record/453468us. In contrast, the last Aladdin number we have here on 45worlds 78 RPM is 3456, arguably released in May 1959 on 45 and 78.The last 78 Aladdin record that was definitely released is 3432, in July 1958.
fixbutte 23rd Apr 2021		78 RPM Hattie Parker With Pace Jubilee Singers - We Will Walk Through The Valley Of Peace / Is It Well With Your Soul Today? (1927)	Thanks, Mike. What's about Brunswick 7002 then?. Does the book also say 28 July 1927, like they have on Discogs?
fixbutte 22nd Apr 2021		78 RPM Bill Brown And His Brownies - Bill Brown Blues / Hot Lips (1927)	Uploaded clean images of the record, so I could hide the subpar images from valueyourmusic.com.

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