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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Fokeman ● 25th Feb 2017		78 RPM Seosamh Ó hÉanaí - Bean An Leanna / Rogha Chiarrai / An Coirneal Frazer / An Bad Gaile (Ríleanna) (1957)	[YouTube Video] Joe Heaney - Bean an Leanna
Fokeman ● 25th Feb 2017		78 RPM Seosamh Ó hÉanaí - Neainsín Bhán / Comhsheinnm Uí Chearbhalláin (1957)	Part of the 18 78rpm disc set of traditional Irish music released in the Ceolta Eireann series. Mostly these had two sides of different performers, 1 track on each side.
Fokeman ● 26th Jan 2017		78 RPM Martin Lawrence - O What A Charming Thing's A Battle / The Song Of Momus To Mars (1951)	"Momus, the god of pleasantry and ridicule, constantly employed himself in satirizing the gods until at last he was driven from Olympus" Thy sword within the scabbard keep And let mankind agree; Better the world were fast asleep Than kept awake by thee. The fools are only thinner, With all our cost and care, But neither side a winner, For things are as they were.
Fokeman ● 21st Jan 2017		78 RPM The Rambleers - Waltzing Matilda / The Shearer's Dream (1958)	By 1958, all attempts at printing the complicated chessboard squares on the label had been abandoned. Henceforward, only plain yellow labels.
Fokeman ● 21st Jan 2017		78 RPM The Bushwhackers - Click Go The Shears / Botany Bay (1956)	On some copies the checkered label hardly shows through at all and it looks plain yellow, although it is possible to hold it up to the light and see the white overprinting in squares.
Fokeman ● 21st Dec 2016		78 RPM Jelly Roll Morton - Shreveport Stomp / Stratford Hunch (1951)	Only if it was out of step with the others.
Fokeman ● 17th Dec 2016		78 RPM Marina Koshetz - Kalitka (Little Gate) / Shto Mue Goré (There’s No Sorrow) (1948)	I wonder if the matrix numbers match the labels? This looks like a typical label error as it's almost too much of a coincidence that it's the right number but wrong label? Just a hunch...
Fokeman ● 17th Dec 2016		78 RPM The Yorkshire Jazz Band - Doctor Jazz / When You And I Were Young, Maggie (1950)	From the label design, I'd date this actual record to about 1956, even though the Tempo release dates from 1950.
Fokeman ● 29th Nov 2016		78 RPM Lord Beginner - Victory Test Match (1950)	Lord Beginner arrived in 1948 on the "Windrush" from Trinidad.
Fokeman ● 25th Nov 2016		78 RPM Irene Scruggs - My Back To The Wall / You've Got What I Want (1956)	Good man Xiphophilos, you worked it out. Biography looks good too...
Fokeman ● 20th Nov 2016		78 RPM Bridie Gallagher - A Mother's Love / I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers (1957)	This is an Irish issue (Made In Eire). [Fixed. Mod.]
Fokeman ● 10th Sep 2016		78 RPM O'Brien's State Street Seven - Royal Reserve Blues / Carolina In The Morning (1947)	Mecolico stamp explains what is already stated on the label - that this is a private record and not to be sold to the general public or broadcast. This became the Tempo Record Society - a group of like minded people who belonged to the "club" and thus had access to buy these records which were reproductions of American (Jazz) records.
Fokeman ● 10th Sep 2016		78 RPM Humphrey Lyttelton - Careless Love / When The Saints Go Marching In (1948)	Given the label design and the early label number this is probably a later issue from the mid 1950s.
Fokeman ● 10th Sep 2016		78 RPM Lee Stafford - Winter Garden Rag / Heliotrope Bouquet (1950)	[YouTube Video]
Fokeman ● 10th Sep 2016		78 RPM Folk Dance Band - Mage On A Cree / Hey, Boys, Up Go We (1929)	B side is Bb 13970⌂ exactly the same as this.
Fokeman ● 7th Aug 2016		78 RPM I. I. Petrov With The State Choir Of Russian Song - Song Of The Forests (Part 1 (1951)	Slight problem with the black ink at top of label on B side.
Fokeman ● 6th Aug 2016		78 RPM The Centenary Choir - The Internationale / The Red Flag (1949)	I have a copy of the earlier issue which is pressed on flexible vinyl like the TRC 24. The later issue is on Shellac (counter to expectations). Mike Brocken take note.
Fokeman ● 6th Aug 2016		78 RPM Ewan MacColl - The Brewer Laddie / The Ballad Of Stalin (1951)	Matrix numbers A side:13167 B side:13171
Fokeman ● 28th Jun 2016		78 RPM The Rambleers - Waltzing Matilda / The Shearer's Dream (1958)	Both tracks A & B were available here on the 7" EP by the Rambleers on Wattle too.
Fokeman ● 25th Jun 2016		78 RPM Seamus O'Doherty - The Rose Of Tralee / Kitty Of Coleraine (1926)	Yes Frankie, Mikey has it. Try sending him a pm. when you click on the who has it, his name appears... click on that blue Mikey to send him a personal message.
Fokeman ● 16th May 2016		78 RPM Jimmy Blythe's Ragamuffins - Messin' Around / Adam's Apple (1950)	Original issue red labels from Bramber Road uploaded.
Fokeman ● 10th May 2016		78 RPM Folk Dance Band - Rufty Tufty / The Maid Peeped Out (1929)	A side available on the B side of this record
Fokeman ● 10th May 2016		78 RPM Alf. Edwards - Tarantella / Tarantella Abbruzzese (1951)	These 3 discs were all credited to Alf. Edwards and his Concertina. Alf Edwards (without the dot marking the abbreviation for his name Alfred Edwards) was his normal performing name.
Fokeman ● 24th Apr 2016		78 RPM The Bushwhackers - The Old Bullock Dray / Nine Miles From Gundagai (1956)	Both sides feature Brian Loughlin on vocals. However the band name remains "The Bushwhackers" as they featured different vocalists on each of their records while retaining the name of the band. It would be unnecessary and wrong to create new artist names just because the featured vocalist's name appears on the label.
Fokeman ● 16th Feb 2016		78 RPM Alfie Bass And The Four Bailiffs - Pity The Downtrodden Landlord / The Oakey Evictions (1955)	B side is more correctly known as The Oakey Strike Evictions More information about the composer of B side here.
Fokeman ● 12th Nov 2015		78 RPM Paul Robeson - Joe Hill / John Brown's Body (1956)	Later blue labels added.
Fokeman ● 1st Nov 2015		78 RPM Jack Elliott - Talking Miner Blues / Pretty Boy Floyd (1956)	Also exists with the "Topic Record Company" text at the top of the label. Note two different spellings of Woody Guthrie, second issue had the Woodie Guthrie corrected to Woody Guthrie.
Fokeman ● 31st Oct 2015		78 RPM Phil Cardew, Edward Silverman And Ben Frankel - Trio (1932) / Monologue From The Soviet Opera "Yemelian Pugachev" (1941)	It's not surprising that you didn't find them in the USA. They were run by a very much Communist organisation with most if not all of the members being card-carrying communists. This was perfectly acceptable to most reasonable people (it wasn't the communists who exterminated millions of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and the disabled in the recent war). However in the USA, it was the world's worst nightmare to have someone with loyalties to a political ideal rather than to the Nation State of the US of A. Only later did the horrific excesses of the Stalinist regime become widely known. Oddly enough there were a few recordings that slipped through and I will be putting up Topic issued recordings which were issued by a special label in the USA on 78rpm. Bear in mind also that these records are incredibly fragile. Even in the UK in the 1950s it was almost impossible to get hold of USA 78s and there were import/export implications with the shipment of records across the atlantic. A blues 78 from America arriving in a town would be sufficient for a party to be thrown to listen to a record brought back in a suitcase after a transatlantic trip. The WMA was formed in 1936 by Alan Bush - an English composer and was set up to encourage a community of singers, choirs and performers to engage with each other and between different countries. It was a novel and forward-thinking way of generating friendships and inter-cultural links, whatever your politics. Don't imagine that they found a general public in Britain. In order to buy one initially you had to be part of the "Topic Record Club" (guess what TRC in the catalogue number stands for?) and apart from the classic "The Red Flag / The Internationale" record most of them sold in very poor numbers. It was as a result of poor sales and the risk of draining the financial resources of the thriving WMA organisation that the record company was split off in about 1956 from the WMA to leave it to stand on its own two feet. It is still going today...
Fokeman ● 30th Oct 2015		78 RPM Phil Cardew, Edward Silverman And Ben Frankel - Trio (1932) / Monologue From The Soviet Opera "Yemelian Pugachev" (1941)	Yes, Michael Brocken & Alistair Banfield's discography of Topic as per discography here.
Fokeman ● 30th Oct 2015		78 RPM Patrick Galvin - Who Fears To Speak ? / Johnny I Hardly Knew Yer (1954)	Unusual for this series of 10" 78s, this is actually on the 12" format. Were the songs too long for the 10" disc?

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