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Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Soviet Choir And Military Band - Soviet Airman's Song / Chapayev (1942)	Accompanied by Arnold Goldsbrough on piano. This accompanist played the organ at the wedding of the parents of Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Jonathan Croft And David And Michael Percival - Catch As Catch Can (17th Century Catches) (1942)	El Paso Del Ebro would probably translate as "The Crossing Of The Ebro" rather than "The crossing at Ebro" which is suggested on the label.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Jonathan Croft And David And Michael Percival - Catch As Catch Can (17th Century Catches) (1942)	B side Choir and Orchestra conducted by Rodolfo Halffter. He also Arranged the music
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM The Topic Singers - Two Soviet Folk Songs (1942)	The B side was from the Soviet film "Jazz Comedy"
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Jack Elliott - Old Blue / Rambling Blues (1956)	1st label shown has 1 & 2 to denote sides, second red & white label has A & B to denote sides. Label printed properly on this second issue.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Jack Elliott - Old Blue / Rambling Blues (1956)	Second label printed in about 1957, I think.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Jack Elliott - Old Blue / Rambling Blues (1956)	1st label seemed to suffer from labels being stamped with the ink stamp several times in error and on both sides of the label...
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Jack Elliott - Old Blue / Rambling Blues (1956)	Aka Ramblin' Jack Elliott of course...
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Hylda Sims With The City Ramblers - Round And Round The Picket Line / Nine Hundred Miles (1956)	The City Ramblers went through a number of line up changes. Jim MacGregor was with the group for a while, before he found fame and fortune with Robin Hall. These two tracks fitted the "Skiffle Boom" requirement for American songs. One of them being an American Union Song and the other an American Railroad Song.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM John Hasted - The Bridge Below The Town / Keep Talking (1956)	With Al Jeffery on vocals and guitar, and Ted Andrews on banjo.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra - Society Blues / Ory's Creole Tombone (1950)	Strictly speaking it says on the label "Ory's Sunshine Orchestra" This issue is also a later edition - note the address on the side. The original was with red ink and the Jazz Art Society address round the side.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Ewan MacColl - Moses Of The Mail / The Firman's Not For Me (1951)	Both of these songs were "Railway Songs". Moses was the driver of the mail train and the fireman referred to in the other song is not someone who puts out fires but rather a fire-stoker on an old steam locomotive.
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Ewan MacColl - Moses Of The Mail / The Firman's Not For Me (1951)	This is a typo on the label of B side. Should read "The Fireman's Not For Me" as seen elsewhere in MacColl's recorded life. Peggy Seeger singing The Fireman's Not For Me
Fokeman 27th Jan 2014		78 RPM Bob De Cormier And Pete Seeger - Dark As A Dungeon / Talking Union Blues (1956)	This is a later issue label. First issue had the red and white label as seen on (almost) all other Topic 78s
Fokeman 9th Jan 2014		78 RPM Paul Robeson - Chinese Soldier's Song / Riding The Dragon (1952)	Record scanned perfectly because ebay seller wrapped it badly and it arrived broken. Sadly it is easier to scan labels flat from a broken 78... :-(
Fokeman 3rd Jan 2014		78 RPM Ewan MacColl - Johnny Of Breadisley / Henry Martin (1954)	Henry Martin - the song In fact if you look here, it seems that even Henry Martin (originally Andrew Barton) was a Scottish traditional ballad if we are to believe what we read...
Fokeman 3rd Jan 2014		78 RPM Ewan MacColl - Johnny Of Breadisley / Henry Martin (1954)	Henry Martin a traditional British ballad as opposed to a Scottish ballad as is the case of Johnny O' Breadisley. I presume Henry Martin is more of an English ballad as sung by the likes of Phil Tanner - the Gower Nightingale (in Wales).
Fokeman 3rd Jan 2014		78 RPM Ewan MacColl - Johnny Of Breadisley / Henry Martin (1954)	Known traditionally as "Johnny O' Breadisley"
Fokeman 17th Dec 2013		78 RPM State Street Ramblers - Georgia Grind / Richmond Stomp (1950)	Oddly enough, I think that all copies of this record had the same damage on the label. On the Richmond Stomp side they all seem to have had the damage by the date and codes.
Fokeman 15th Nov 2013		78 RPM Leroy Carr - Barrelhouse Woman No.2 / I Believe I'll Make A Change (1952)	This one is a reissue see the address in Charing Cross Road instead of Kensington.
Fokeman 15th Nov 2013		78 RPM Freddy Keppard And His Jazz Cardinals - Stockyard Strut / Salty Dog (1949)	This record is clearly a reissue. The number 8 would have been issued significantly before the move to Charing Cross Road. See the red label issues of records before and after this record and the different address round the edge.
Fokeman 11th Nov 2013		78 RPM Paddy Ryan - The Man That Waters The Workers' Beer / The Internationale (1939)	T- shirts now available with A side printed on front. http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/workers-beer-navy.png I have no financial interest in this but it was my record that Topic used for the printing.
Fokeman 21st Oct 2013		78 RPM Ma Rainey And Her Georgia Band - Misery Blues / Dead Drunk Blues (1950)	Misery Blues personnel unknown. Dead Drunk Blues, Ma Rainey, vocals; Claude Hopkins, piano. Both sides recorded Chicago 1927
Fokeman 19th Oct 2013		78 RPM James P. Johnson - Harlem Strut / Pallet On The Floor (1950)	Both sides Piano Solo, recorded 1922, New York. B side is a Piano Roll A side BS 2026 (P151-1) JCL 0381
Fokeman 22nd Sep 2013		78 RPM Soviet State Choir And Orchestra - Soviet Fatherland Song (Land Of Freedom) / The Internationale (1939)	The second of 3 Topic number 1 78rpm records
Fokeman 27th Jul 2013		78 RPM The Hokum Band - Easy Rider Blues / Alki Blues (1950)	Yes, Scrough, as regards the EPs on vinyl, all of them begin with J as do the singles (JDN for a single JEN for an EP where N stand for "new jazz") But I'm wondering why here, there is a J being used when simply the letter L as a prefix is the rule for almost all other records in the series. I've done a lot of work on the Collector label and have pretty much completed the EP and single discography, still working on 78s though...
Fokeman 23rd Jul 2013		78 RPM The Storyville Jazzmen - Milenberg Joys / Weary Blues (1958)	Many thanks Lorangrecords
Fokeman 23rd Jul 2013		78 RPM The Storyville Jazzmen - Eh Le Bas / Old Kentucky Home (1958)	Many thanks Lorangrecords. Since it says only "Storyville Jazzmen" and not "The Storyville Jazzmen", should I only put what it says on the record? I know that they were correctly called "The Storyville Jazzmen" or "Bob Wallis's Storyville Jazzmen".
Fokeman 22nd Jul 2013		78 RPM The Hokum Band - Easy Rider Blues / Alki Blues (1950)	Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to the origin of the J in the JL catalogue prefix. Could it be "Joint" here rather than Jazz? And why did the same record have a different prefix with another issue?
Fokeman 22nd Jul 2013		78 RPM Trixie Smith - Railroad Blues / The World's Jazz Crazy And So Am I (1953)	Matrices MMP 39 Railroad Blues (2064-2) MMP 40 The World's Jazz Crazy And So Am I (2063-2)

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