78 RPM - Comments by GeneRobertson

78 RPM - Comments by GeneRobertson

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
GeneRobertson 16th Jan 2014		78 RPM Mantovani - The Best Of Everything / It Was Love (1959)	A side label not crudely edited - just printed off-centre.
GeneRobertson 16th Jan 2014		78 RPM Billy Williams - When Father Papered The Parlour / Don't Go Out With Him Tonight (1913)	I apologise for the awfully worn label - hopefully a better copy will turn up in due course.
GeneRobertson 14th Jan 2014		78 RPM Wm. Reitz - Heather Bells / Dance California (1914)	"Heather Bells" released in the USA as Victor 17178 : 14 November 1912. "Dance California" released in the USA as Victor 17357 : 5 May 1913.
GeneRobertson 14th Jan 2014		78 RPM George Moxey And His Calypso Quintet - You Got To Pay / Time For A Change (1954)	Correct me if I'm wrong Charlie, but weren't these 78s pressed in the UK, with intent to export them to the West Indies?
GeneRobertson 14th Jan 2014		78 RPM Desmond Dekker And The Aces - 007 / El Torro (1967)	Makes you wonder if "Al Capone" by Prince Buster or "Guns Of Navarone " by the Skatalites would have been pressed on 78 in SA.
GeneRobertson 13th Jan 2014		78 RPM Enrico Caruso - O Sole Mio (My Sunshine) / La Donna E Mobile (Woman Is Fickle) (1933)	Both of these are re-recordings with an electronically-recorded orchestra dubbed on to Caruso's original acoustically recorded vocals.
GeneRobertson 13th Jan 2014		78 RPM The Property Of Herr Carl Reich - Record Made By A Captive Nightingale (1910)	[YouTube Video] "Record Made By A Captive Nightingale" - His Master's Voice (9439)
GeneRobertson 13th Jan 2014		78 RPM Betty Wells, Bill Marine And The Playmates - Gingerbread Man / Little Brave Sambo (1962)	Also issued on Happy Time. Interesting, as it looks like Dandy (who clearly had something to do with Cricket Records - check their back cover), must have had a deal with Pickwick, who distributed Happy Time in the UK.
GeneRobertson 5th Jan 2014		78 RPM David Price, John Edwards - Bugail Aberdyfi / Cartref (1958)	Looking at the "all rights reserved" text around the label rim, it bears a striking resemblence to the same text used on Philips 78s in the UK. I wonder if this was pressed by Philips? I dare say it was probably only sold in Wales at the time of its release.
GeneRobertson 5th Jan 2014		78 RPM Rena Military Band - The Birds And The Brook / The Jolly Coppersmith (1909)	The confusing world of acoustically recorded 78s!
GeneRobertson 4th Jan 2014		78 RPM Rena Military Band - The Birds And The Brook / The Jolly Coppersmith (1909)	The strange thing about this is, although credited to the Rena Military Band, the spoken announcement at the start of the record says "The Birds And The Brook, by the Columbia Orchestra"!
GeneRobertson 2nd Jan 2014		78 RPM David Seville And The Chipmunks - Ragtime Cowboy Joe / Flip Side (1959)	Label scans added. Not crudely edited - just printed slightly off-centre.
GeneRobertson 26th Dec 2013		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Nightingale / Cuckoo (1936)	This is "Record Made By A Captive Nightingale" by Herr Carl Reich from 1910, mentioned in the notes - but it should give you some idea of what my test pressing sounds like. [YouTube Video]
GeneRobertson 23rd Dec 2013		78 RPM Martinas And His Music - Cha Cha Momma Brown / My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean (1958)	Martinas is none other than the late, great Martin Slavin.
GeneRobertson 14th Dec 2013		78 RPM Sandy Powell - Sandy's Happy Home (1933)	I can never understand how this was supposed to be 'humorous'. Sandy plays the part of a no-good drunk who goes drinking every night, leaving his poor, long-suffering wife at home alone. The sketch ends with his wife being shot dead by a burglar, and then he offers to take the burglar to go and shoot his mother-in-law. Perhaps that's was why it was one of his last Broadcast 78s?
GeneRobertson 14th Dec 2013		78 RPM Sandy Powell - Sandy, The Magistrate Part I / Sandy, The Magistrate Part II (1932)	Alternative label design with VGC logo and 'Broadcast' in gold shading added.
GeneRobertson 14th Dec 2013		78 RPM The Platters - (You've Got) The Magic Touch / Winner Take All (1956)	This is, in my opinion, one of their best '50s records, and I can never understand why it wasn't a hit in the UK!
GeneRobertson 14th Dec 2013		78 RPM Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman (Laughing Song) / Laughter And Lemons (1935)	This must have remained on catalogue for at least 20 years after its original release in 1926.
GeneRobertson 10th Dec 2013		78 RPM Constant Lambert - Romeo and Juliet Overture (1941)	Constant Lambert was the father of the late Kit Lambert, producer for The Who, Jimi Hendrix et al.
GeneRobertson 8th Dec 2013		78 RPM Ruby Murray - I'll Come When You Call / It's The Irish In Me (1955)	Probably one of very few (or maybe the only one) of Ruby's 78s that never got a 45 release at the time, aside from being one of the tracks on the "Everybody's Sweetheart" EP.
GeneRobertson 7th Dec 2013		78 RPM The Empire Orchestra - The Gaby Glide / Rum Tum Tiddle (1913)	This record plays outwards from the centre.
GeneRobertson 11th Feb 2013		78 RPM Teddy Johnson And Pearl Carr - Sing Little Birdie / If Only I Could Live My Life Again (1959)	"Yes it was indeed, well challenged"!
GeneRobertson 11th Feb 2013		78 RPM Doris Day - Pretty Baby / Confess (1948)	Judging by the MC number, I think this was intended for export - though not sure to which country.

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