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HBRALLAN 8th Mar 2021		78 RPM Shelton Brothers - MacDonald's Streamlined Farm / With Another's Arms Around You (1954)	Newspaper article on the Shelton Brothers, which was published in the Paris, Texas 'Paris News' from 1956. Courtesy of the late Dave Barnes.
HBRALLAN 8th Mar 2021		78 RPM Riley Crabtree - When This World Changes Hands / Let Me Walk Through The Valley (1954)	Newspaper article on Riley Crabtree, which was published in the Paris, Texas 'Paris News' from 1956. Courtesy of the late Dave Barnes.
HBRALLAN 15th Feb 2021		78 RPM Tex Atchison And His Santa Fe Boys - Oh! Come My Love / If You Must Cry Over Someone (1945)	This record, and Atchison's other Victory release, was reviewed in BILLBOARD on 15th June 1946 (Page 33).
HBRALLAN 15th Feb 2021		78 RPM Tex Atchison And His Santa Fe Boys - He Was Your Friend And Mine / Riding Over The Sage Brush Plains (1945)	Victory 124 was mentioned, as "Newly Released", in the "American Folk Tunes" column in BILLBOARD (Page 83) on 20th October 1945. Both this record, and Atchison's other Victory release, was reviewed in BILLBOARD on 15th June 1946 (Page 33).
HBRALLAN 10th Feb 2021		78 RPM Pete Lane And Bernice Stabile - John's Reply / One-Two-Three-Skid-Doo (1953)	Further to slholzer's comment regarding label credit on the lower deck, scan of label with erroneous label credit added,
HBRALLAN 8th Feb 2021		78 RPM Dave Dudley - I'm Always Day Dreaming / Iowa Waltz	Initially I was somewhat sceptical that this was Country Singer Dave Dudley. However, having brushed the accumulated dust of a succession of Country Music Encyclopaedias in search of information regarding Dave Dudley’s early career; although I was unable to find any reference to this particular record, Irwin Stambler & Grelun Landon’s 1969 tome “Encyclopaedia Of Folk, Country And Western Music” did open up a particular avenue worth exploring further, one which leant some credence to the notion that this is The Country Singer, Dave Dudley. In the late forties Dudley’s all consuming passion was to become a professional baseball player, unfortunately an injury sustained in 1950 brought to an end Dudley’s aspirations in this direction. Over the next two years Dudley went from strength working as a DJ, and singing, over a succession of local radio stations starting with station W.T.W.T (Stevens Point, Wisconsin); moving then onto W.B.O.K (Waterloo, Idaho); and from there to K.C.H.A (Charles City. Idaho). In 1952 Dudley set up his own Trio, “The Country Caravan“, which consisted of Lynn Strauff - steel guitar; Dick Van Hale – Bass; Smokey Stover – Lead Guitar; with Dudley himself taking care of the vocals and struming rhythm guitar. Dudley and his Country Caravan made their recording debut on the Milwaukee based PFAU label in 1952. Dudley’s growing popularity as a DJ and a as singer on air was perhaps what brought him to the attention of Frank Cotier who was presumably looking for popular local lad to wax his newly penned composition "Iowa Waltz" in order to peddle the song to a wider audience. Given his later career as a Country singer one automatically assumes that Dudley was singing Country tunes on the radio, but perhaps he was singing material from a broad canon of works, including popular numbers of the day. I readily confess that this is all pure speculation, but in the absence of any alternative notions at the moment maybe it’s something to explore further?
HBRALLAN 7th Feb 2021		78 RPM Shorty Ashburn - Triflin' Heart / Are You Loney Too (1952)	"Are You Loney Too" [sic] Wonderful typo, actual title is "Are You Lonely Too" as per 45rpm label.
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Jimmy Myers And His Happy Highway Gang - Drunk Man's Wiggle / I'm Goin' Back To West Virginia (1951)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Hal Clark And The West-O-Crats - I Don't Mean A Thing To You / Lonely Heart (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Earl Songer And His Rocky Road Ramblers - Whose Naughty Baby Are You? / Spanish Fire Bells (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Bob Durham - Skid Row Boogie / Headin' Back To Tennessee (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Earl Songer And His Rocky Road Ramblers - Will There Be Any Flowers On Your Grave / Fox Chase (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Earl Songer And His Rocky Road Ramblers - Honky Tonkin' Blues / The Fire In My Heart (Will Be Drowned In Tears) (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Johnnie White And His Rhythm Riders - Mean And Evil Blues / The Tattooed Lady (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Johnnie White And His Melody Knights - When The Roses Bloom Around Our Cabin Door / The Souhland Boogie (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM York Bros. - Hamtramck Mama / Highland Park Girl (1949)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Earl Songer And His Rocky Road Ramblers - My Wife And Sweetheart Too / Mother-In-Law Boogie (1950)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Doyle Franklin And His Red River Boys - If The Blues Don't Kill Me / One Heart Too Many (1949)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM Roy Hall And His Cohutta Mountain Boys - Okee Doaks / Dirty Boogie (1949)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 31st Jan 2021		78 RPM York Bros. - Hamtramck Mama / Highland Park Girl (1949)	[YouTube Video]
HBRALLAN 21st Jan 2021		78 RPM Les Paul And Mary Ford - My Baby's Coming Home / Lady Of Spain (1952)	Scan of Sheet Music added, note difference between title on record label and title on sheet music.
HBRALLAN 15th Jan 2021		78 RPM Teresa Brewer - I Gotta Go Get My Baby / I Gotta Go Get My Baby	The Marvin Rainwater side is pressed from a Monarch stamper, the deadwax has ∆2068 which equates from around November / December 1954
HBRALLAN 15th Jan 2021		78 RPM Pete Pike - I Can See An Angel / In The House Of The Lord (1954)	Scan of flipside added
HBRALLAN 31st Dec 2020		78 RPM Terry Fell And The Fellers - I've Done All I Know To Do / You Ran Around While I Was Gone (1947)	"I've Done All I Know To Do" has M-2091 in the deadwax "You Ran Around While I Was Gone" has M-2092 in the deadwax
HBRALLAN 27th Dec 2020		78 RPM Johnny Hicks And The Country Gentlemen - Nueva Laredo / Hey Now Honey! (1954)	Scans of DJ labels added
HBRALLAN 27th Dec 2020		78 RPM Johnny Hicks - I Swear / Too Late To (1953)	Scans of DJ labels added
HBRALLAN 27th Dec 2020		78 RPM Johnny Hicks With The Country Gentlemen - Pick Up Blues / No Wild Side Of Life (1953)	Scans of DJ labels added
HBRALLAN 27th Dec 2020		78 RPM Johnny Hicks - Are You Sorry (That You Love Me) / Rainy Night Blues (1952)	Scans of DJ labels added
HBRALLAN 27th Dec 2020		78 RPM Johnny Hicks And His Troubadors - Hamburger Hop / Heart After Heart (1950)	Scans of DJ labels added
HBRALLAN 22nd Dec 2020		78 RPM Lynn Howard - I Know I'll Never Win / I'm a Cry, Cry Baby	[YouTube Video]

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