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fixbutte 4th Oct 2024		78 RPM Walkers' Corbin Ramblers - The Dying Tramp / Match Box Blues (1934)	With respect to Mike Gann, I've added a clearer and more complete A-side label image.
fixbutte 22nd Jul 2024		78 RPM Bobby Ramos - Dormillon – Rumba / Bongo Bongocero – Rumba (1946)	Created an entry for the album and moved your images there. Thanks anyway!
fixbutte 21st Jun 2024		78 RPM Tampa Red And Georgia Tom - Friendless Blues / Dying Mercy Blues (1930)	It was the B-side, "Dying Mercy Blues", that was re-recorded by Tampa Red (see previous comment). This first version here is not credited to Tampa Red and Georgia Tom though (as it was entered here), but to Tampa Red "The Guitar Wizard" as well, see B-side label on https://www.wirz.de/music/tampared.htm. In contrast to the re-recording, which is a guitar solo instrumental, this one is actually a "Vocal with Piano and Guitar". Unlike on the A-side, which was recorded on a different session, the pianist is not Georgia Tom, but Romeo Nelson (though uncredited). B-side artist corrected accordingly and notes added.
fixbutte 14th Jun 2024		78 RPM Benny Carter - Dream Lullaby / Shoot The Works (1935)	As Mike Gann‘s linked source has the same recording date (13 December 1934), originated from there, I have corrected it here. In fact, there is no first-hand source for the release month, but it can be interpolated quite solidly for this specific record by evaluating the recording dates on the ODP.
fixbutte 19th May 2024		78 RPM Blind Boy Fuller - Baby, I Don't Have To Worry ('Cause That Stuff Is Here) / Looking For My Woman (1938)	Here we had the original discussion, nearly five years ago: Vocalion 03070 (with my comment from nearly ten years ago, on OKeh 03070).
fixbutte 19th May 2024		78 RPM Henry Busse - Jealous / Hot Lips (1938)	Right again, this was another straight reuse of an earlier Vocalion number (the first Vocalion 2846 from late 1934 was Johnny Johnson & Orch. - A: Flirtation Walk, B: Take A Number From One To Ten). Henry Busse's record has an interesting release history. Originally issued on Columbia 2937-D in mid-1934, it was reissued only a few months later on Melotone M 13227 and Perfect 16031, after ARC had acquired Columbia in late 1934. This record here was apparently the next reissue, after ARC had stopped issuing its budget labels such as Melotone and Perfect in April 1938. It was followed by another new edition in 1940, on OKeh 2846. Therefore the release date for this alternative Vocalion 2846 had to be changed from Dec. 1934 (which may apply for the Melotone edition) to 1938, I'm guessing not much after April because it had proven to be an enduring sales hit.
fixbutte 19th May 2024		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Some Of These Days / Let's Spend An Evening At Home (1938)	Actually these two sides were originally issued on Brunswick but reissued on Melotone 13130 already in 1934. I guess these later Vocalion reissues of ARC budget label recordings all happened in 1938, like we suggest all OKeh reissues of previous Vocalion numbers happened in 1940. As this is in line with the Vocalion label design here, I have added 1938 as release year.
fixbutte 19th May 2024		78 RPM Blind Boy Fuller - Baby, I Don't Have To Worry ('Cause That Stuff Is Here) / Looking For My Woman (1938)	Thank you, Mike Gann, for editing the notes. In addition, I propose removing the release month. As said, the ARC budget label records were reissued on Vocalion "starting in April 1938", so we can't be sure about the exact month, just like for all those 1940 OKeh reissues of previous Vocalion numbers.
fixbutte 19th May 2024		78 RPM Blind Boy Fuller - Baby, I Don't Have To Worry ('Cause That Stuff Is Here) / Looking For My Woman (1938)	You're right, han enderman. Vocalion 2830 by Bing Crosby is a reuse of the previous number 02830, not the other way around. The two Crosby sides, originally recorded for Brunswick, were previously coupled like this on Melotone M 13132 in 1934. There are more Bing Crosby reissues on Vocalion, even using the same old unprefixed numbers: 2834, 2835, 2845, 2867, 2868, 2869, 2870, 2877, 2878, 2879 (of these, only 2867 had a prefix counterpart).
fixbutte 18th May 2024		78 RPM Blind Boy Fuller - Baby, I Don't Have To Worry ('Cause That Stuff Is Here) / Looking For My Woman (1938)	Against Mike Gann's notes, this record was not originally issued on Vocalion and reissued on Melotone. In fact, Blind Boy Fuller's first 25 singles until April 1938 were all (except two for Decca) released on ARC budget labels, mostly Melotone and Perfect, see his singles discography on RYM that I have sorted out some years ago. It was not before May 1938 that Fuller's singles were issued and reissued on Vocalion. See our Vocalion biography that xiphophilos once made with my help: Starting in April 1938, after ARC had stopped issuing its budget labels Banner, Conqueror, Melotone, Perfect, Oriole, and Romeo, it reissued some of these releases on Vocalion. To do that, it created new catalog numbers by reusing old numbers of popular records that had not yet been issued with a 0-prefix and adding a "0" to them. The first reused number appears to be 2847, the last one 3499. Most of these Vocalion reissues were records by Blind Boy Fuller and Gene Autry, in addition to others, e.g., by Big Bill Broonzy, Patsy Montana, and the Carter Family.
fixbutte 25th Feb 2024		78 RPM Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Lost John Dean / Italy (1928)	This record was scheduled for release on Brunswick 227, see Online Discographical Project, but it was actually not released there (no copy has ever surfaced). In fact, Brunswick master recordings of February 6, 1928 of both sides were renumbered for Brunswick's sublabel Vocalion (Vocalion numbers assigned on June 26, 1928), see DAHR (A-side and B-side). The record was then released on Vocalion 5246 and is scarce even in this version, see Venerable Music. Vocalion 5246 was apparently released before Vocalion 5252 which came out on November 15, 1928. According to Talking Machine World, Vocalion numbers 5240 to 5242 came out on October 1, 1928 (see October issue, page 126), numbers 5247 to 5250 on November 1, 1928 and numbers 5251 to 5254 on November 15, 1928 (see November issue, page 126). The missing Vocalion numbers 5243 to 5246 were most probably released on October 15. 1928 which date is not documented on Talking Machine World though.
fixbutte 22nd Feb 2024		78 RPM Buell Kazee - A Short Life Of Trouble / The Dying Soldier (Brother Green) (1928)	"Brunswick 214 was never issued but a production copy somehow survived in the company vaults", see Philip Kazee, A Family Legacy - page 34: "20. A Short Life of Trouble"
fixbutte 14th Jan 2024		78 RPM Paul Whiteman - Valencia / No More Worryin' (1926)	No objection, xiphophilos. When I said that the release dates of Victor records "were nearly always on Fridays of the previous month" (not: on the last Friday) of the monthly Victor catalog and the DAHR date, I meant the time when records were actually released weekly, which was definitely true from 1923 on but possibly already earlier in the 1920s.
fixbutte 12th Jan 2024		78 RPM John Kirby - Move Over / Slowly (1946)	See also here: DISC Records David Stone Martin art Cover Album John Kirby & Orchestra. I've uploaded a detail from the cover where you discern the signature and added a clearer one of David Stone Martin for comparison, so your suspicion is also confirmed by the similarity.
fixbutte 23rd Nov 2023		78 RPM Collegiate Choir - Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful / Joy To The World (1924)	The images there are also free to download as far as I can see > Download Options > Item Image
fixbutte 17th Oct 2023		78 RPM "Young" Jessie - I Smell A Rat / Lonesome Desert (1954)	Release date changed from January 1954 to April 1954, according to the trade magazine reviews (see supplemented Notes).
fixbutte 27th Sep 2023		78 RPM Clara Smith And Her Jazz Trio - Freight Train Blues / Done Sold My Soul To The Devil (And My Heart's Done Turned To Stone) (1924)	You're right, han enderman, that the flag labels (with just "Columbia Phonograph Company") belong to the original 1924 pressing. However, I found a clearer and brighter pair of labels that I have moved up (yours have been hidden, thanks anyway!). I have also edited and moved up your later B-side flag label with "Inc." added to the company name, which was used from March to May 1925 according to the Columbia label discography here on 45worlds 78 RPM. The black labels (with second patent date "May 22, '23") followed from June 1923 on.
fixbutte 26th Sep 2023		78 RPM Sallie Martin And Her Singers Of Joy - Four And Twenty Elders / Jesus Steps Right In (1948)	Although both sides were recorded in April 1947, the record was reviewed in the Billboard not before February 4, 1950 and advertised there the following week (Sallie Martin misspelled as "Sally"), see sources above. Considering the scarce promotion for Aladdin's Spiritual series, this does not necessarily mean that the record was only released in 1950. The same Aladdin ad for "early 1950 hits" listed a Calvin Boze record (Score 4008, wrongly allocated as Aladdin 4008) that had been advertised already in October 1949. Additionally, Capitol had signed on Sallie Walker in August 1949, so Aladdin may have repromoted the artist then.
fixbutte 26th Sep 2023		78 RPM Sallie Martin And Her Singers Of Joy - He's A Friend Of Mine / You Know Lord Whether I'm Right Or Wrong (1948)	(fixbutte, not han enderman:) As the original 2017 eBay link is now defunct, I don't know, rhythmdog, whether I'm right or wrong about the B-side ;-) I could, however, edit and crop the original A-side label image, so that "the worst side of the label" looks partly repaired and the grey paper rim is fully included.
fixbutte 21st Sep 2023		78 RPM Sallie Martin And Her Singers Of Joy - He's A Friend Of Mine / You Know Lord Whether I'm Right Or Wrong (1948)	There is something else interesting about this record. The A-side label image here seems to come from the same source as the one I uploaded to RYM in 2017, when the record was auctioned on eBay. However, it did not have the B-side label it should have ("You Know Lord Whether I'm Right Or Wrong" or possibly just "You Know, Lord"), as I commented on The Aladdin Records Story (#159): A somehow mysterious release. The displayed label belongs to a record with the labels of 2015-A and 2016-A which seems to exist in several copies according to online offers (unknown which songs it actually plays). The label of 2015-B with "You Know, Lord" hasn't shown up yet, and it is unsure if copies of Aladdin 2015 with correct labels exist.
fixbutte 21st Sep 2023		78 RPM The Martin And Morris Singers - On The Jericho Road / I Know I Have Another Building (1948)	Incomplete images completed (yes, we can ;-))
fixbutte 16th Sep 2023		78 RPM The Meditation Singers With James Cleveland - My Soul Looks Back And Wonders / Ain't That Good News (1959)	This record from October 1959 was the last original single in Specialty's gospel (800/900) series, to be continued only ten years later with #920, and it was one of the last Specialty 78 records as well.
fixbutte 8th Sep 2023		78 RPM Bob Mosley - Apollo Presents Bob Mosley Boogie Woogie (1946)	I have to say that I second rhythmdog. Boogie woogie is rather blues than jazz, see e.g. Wikipedia, but Rhythm and blues may be more accurate for a 1946 record. As also said in Wikipedia, that term had been used in Billboard as early as 1943, see here (page 12): "... Cute Nova Coggan sells rhythm and blues numbers. …" Many blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s are listed in the jazz discographies as well, but that does not make their music decidedly jazz.
fixbutte 4th Sep 2023		78 RPM Various Artists - American Folksay Ballads and Dances (1944)	Actually released in September 1944, see https://www.friktech.com/labels/AschRecordings.pdf, or even earlier. Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie, edited by Robert Santelli and Emily Davidson, says "label copy submitted 11 August 1944" (page 204/205). The album was also advertised in The Billboard 1944 Music Year Book (with copy deadline September 1944), page 161, "for Fall Delivery".
fixbutte 4th Sep 2023		78 RPM Bessie Smith - Empress of the Blues: Hot Jazz Classics Album #4 (1940)	More images added, including the inner cover with liner notes of the album editor, George Avakian, and the missing "B side on the second 78", or Track D with cat# C 31-4.
fixbutte 19th Jul 2023		78 RPM Ethel Waters - Shake That Thing / No Man's Mamma (1926)	A pair of original labels with three patent dates (Aug. 11, ’08, Jan. 21, '13 and May 22, '23) in the manufacturer credit on bottom line next to border uploaded and moved up. Dan Mahony has the additional information that the 1908 patent had expired in 1925, so it had to be removed in early 1926..
fixbutte 17th Jul 2023		78 RPM Ethel Waters - Shake That Thing / No Man's Mamma (1926)	Thanks, xiphophilos, for the label design info and the additions to the record notes. The record was definitely a sales hit, still advertised three months after its release and apparently repressed in 1927 and later, and according to Dan Mahony's handbook The Columbia 13/14000-D Series: A Numerical Listing it already had a decent Initial Manufacturing Order (interpreted as being the quantity of records ordered on the initial pressing) of 16,550, one of highest of the series by then, plus Additional Supplies (additional labels to be printed in anticipation of possible large sales volume) of 7,000. I should have listened to it though before I made my last comment about "Shake That Thing" having been a dance hit in Georgia. "Down in Georgia, there's a dance that's new" is actually just a quote of the first line of the song, not a statement about its success in that state.
fixbutte 14th Jul 2023		78 RPM Ethel Waters - Shake That Thing / No Man's Mamma (1926)	Better pair of labels uploaded in order to replace GumboStu's original images which have been hidden. j.monk's inferior brownish labels, however, have to stay because they belong to a later pressing, advertising the "Viva-Tonal" recording process. These labels were introduced only in September 1926 although Western Electric's process had been used by Columbia since mid-1925 at least. According to the uploaded Columbia ad in The Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) on April 10, 1926, "Shake That Thing" was the top side (and a Georgia dance hit), so I have also flipped sides.
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		78 RPM Olive Goff - Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces / In Quelle Trine Morbide (1925)	Last part of my detective work, contradicting TheJudge: Under the title "Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces" it reads "arr. Jane Wilson", so she is not the performing artist but the arranger (of a possibly traditional song). So Olive Goff may be the artist on both sides if the vocals sound the same.
fixbutte 18th Jun 2023		78 RPM Olive Goff - Phyllis Has Such Charming Graces / In Quelle Trine Morbide (1925)	Another reference to Olive Goff, soprano, on BBC's National Programme on Monday 22nd May 1939, 11:00 - see here.

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