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21st Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMHarry Goss-Custard - Fantasie (1927) | Composer: Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens
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20th Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMThe Choristers Of St. Nicolas College, Chislehurst, Kent - O Lovely Peace / Brother James' Air ("Marosa") (1941) | Also released on Columbia ROX190 (private issue for St. Nicolas College?)
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16th Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMRichard Tauber - Roses Of Picardy / Serenade From "The Student Prince" (1936) | [YouTube Video]
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16th Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMCortot, Thibaud And Casals - Trio In G Major (1927) | [YouTube Video]
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16th Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMAlfred Cortot - Ballade In G Minor, Op.23 (1st Record) / Ballade In G Minor, Op.23 (2nd Record) (1929) | [YouTube Video]
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16th Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMLawrence Tibbett - Largo Al Factotum Della Citta / Eri Tu Che Macchiavi Quell' Anima (1931) | [YouTube Video]
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15th Sep 2024 |  | 78 RPMPeter Dawson - Farewell / Why Do The Nations (1934) | "Why do the nations so furiously rage together?" from Handel's Messiah:
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13th Jul 2024 |  | 78 RPMKing's College Chapel Choir - Ding, Dong, Merrily On High / Three Kings (1949) | Recorded in King's College Chapel on 13 July 1949
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12th Jul 2024 |  | 78 RPMBlack Diamonds Band - In A Persian Market / The Caliph (1926) | [YouTube Video][YouTube Video]
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28th Oct 2023 |  | 78 RPMAllan Jones - The Donkey Serenade / Giannina Mia (1938) | [YouTube Video]
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5th Jun 2023 |  | 78 RPMMadame Clara Butt - Land Of Hope And Glory (1909) | Elgar wrote Land Of Hope And Glory for the coronation of King Edward VII, but it was first sung by Clara Butt for whom Elgar adapted it.
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27th Jan 2023 | | 78 RPMWalter Glynne - Annabelle Lee / Until (1929) | [YouTube Video]
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7th Jan 2023 |  | 78 RPMWayne King - The Waltz You Saved For Me / Song Of The Islands (1940) | [YouTube Video]
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7th Jan 2023 |  | 78 RPMWayne King - The Waltz You Saved For Me / In A Window, In A House, In Caroline (1931) | [YouTube Video]
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8th Oct 2022 |  | 78 RPMGlasgow Orpheus Choir - The Faery Song / Bonnie Dundee (1948) | Both sides
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22nd Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMHeddle Nash - Linden Lea / Silent Worship (1949) | [YouTube Video]
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22nd Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMHeddle Nash - O Lieb' So Lang Du Lieben Kannst (Oh, Love, So Long As Life Shall Last)) / Oh ! Quand Je Dors (Oh! When I Am Sleeping) (1949) | [YouTube Video]
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18th Sep 2022 | | 78 RPMFoster Richardson - The Blue Danube / The Song Is Ended (1928) | [YouTube Video][YouTube Video]
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18th Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMHastings Municipal Orchestra - Slavonic Rhapsody – Op. 114 / Slavonic Rhapsody – Op. 114 (1931) | Carl Friedemann (1862 – 1952) can be shown correctly as a composer now you have entered this to Classical world; I cannot identify the Woodhouse who did the arrangement, they were probably a member of the orchestra.
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17th Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMBand Of H.M. Scots Guards - In A Monastery Garden / In A Persian Market (1924) | Thanks, my misreading, but I stand by my conclusion about the speed.
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17th Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMMadame Clara Butt - Abide With Me (1915) | The label does not mention a speed, but it displays the key signature as C. At the time of release the pitch of notes was about a semitone lower than today's standard pitch. If the phonograph in the "Brass Band" video is set for 78RPM, we can conclude that these early Columbia records were recorded at 78RPM.
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17th Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMMadame Clara Butt - The Little Silver Ring (1909) | [YouTube Video]
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17th Sep 2022 | | 78 RPMBand Of H.M. Scots Guards - In A Monastery Garden / In A Persian Market (1924) | The matrix numbers are followed by "Characteristic Pitch" on the labels. This would have been helpful in setting the correct playback speed on the wind-up gramophones of the time against your own piano or tuning fork, but raises the question about the prevailing pitch system.
In A Persian Market was written in D minor, and at this time French standard of A= 435 Hz was in general use. From 1936, the American Standards Association defined Concert Pitch A = 440Hz. The video above has got the pitch about right, at about a semitone lower than modern Concert pitch. If one assumes the phonograph has been set for 78RPM, then we can presume that these Winner and Edison Bell series were recorded at a nominal 78RPM.
Other labels also showed the key signature in preference to the speed, including some early HMV records, like 03156
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16th Sep 2022 | | 78 RPMThe Choristers Of St. Nicolas College, Chislehurst, Kent - O Lovely Peace / Brother James' Air ("Marosa") (1941) | Master John Evans-Pugh (boy soprano) sings Brother James Air. One wonders if any other of the choir members have been identified..
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14th Sep 2022 |  | 78 RPMRoyal Albert Hall Orchestra - Peer Gynt Suite – Morning (1911) | 2.5mm thick, shellac on a softer substrate
From the Kelly On-line Database this is shown with a recording date of 18 Dec. 1911, but 78 RPM World shows single-sided HMV discs with this black label design only in 1918, the earlier series having red or dark red labels in this pattern.
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19th Jun 2022 |  | 78 RPMAlfred Deller - Music For A While / If Music Be The Food Of Love (1st Setting) (1949) | [YouTube Video]
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8th Jun 2022 |  | 78 RPMWebster Booth - The Faery Song / The English Rose (1939) | The Faery Song:
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21st Feb 2022 |  | 78 RPMG. D. Cunningham - Toccata And Fugue In D Minor---Part 1 / Toccata And Fugue In D Minor---Part 2 (1933) | [YouTube Video]
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20th Feb 2022 |  | 78 RPMThe Choir Of Salisbury Cathedral - He Shall Feed His Flock / Yea, Though I Walk (1928) | The choir was directed by Walter Alcock. The choristers included a 12-year-old Bernard Rose, who became Assistant Organist at Salisbury at the age of 15, and Clive Jenkinson.
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29th Dec 2021 |  | 78 RPMMax Hansen - Vita Hästen (1952) | [YouTube Video]
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