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Member	Item		Review/Comment
KeithS SUBS 2nd Aug 2021		78 RPM Ritchie Valens - Come On Let's Go / Dooby Dooby Wah (1958)	Pye had just lost the valuable Mercury franchise to EMI..looks like they used the same label paper for their new "Pye International" imprint
KeithS SUBS 26th Jul 2021		78 RPM Duke Ellington - The Mooche / Mood Indigo (1933)	[YouTube Video]
KeithS SUBS 17th Jul 2021		78 RPM Hal Burton - Move It / Susie Darling (1958)	[YouTube Video]
KeithS SUBS 11th Jul 2021		78 RPM Arthur Askey - The Cuckoo / All To Specification (1939)	Unfortunately the first picture is such poor quality I can't do a thing with it Any chance of a better image? Maybe with a lot less record and more label
KeithS SUBS 12th Jun 2021		78 RPM Brother Bones And His Shadows - Five Foot, Two, Eyes Of Blue / Ida (1949)	It can be done but its a lot of work.. a better picture would help
KeithS SUBS 6th Jun 2021		78 RPM S.E. Benito Mussolini - I Discorsi Dell'Impero (1942)	Now it shows up in a search..we cant just follow the general rules of the site..there's always some companies product that has to be listed differently..needs must when the devil spits in your kettle
KeithS SUBS 6th Jun 2021		78 RPM S.E. Benito Mussolini - I Discorsi Dell'Impero (1942)	The trouble with listing boxed album sets this way...unless the whole set has a specific catalogue number....none of the individual catalogue numbers show up in a search Try and find DS010
KeithS SUBS 27th May 2021		78 RPM Rita Hayworth - Sadie Thompson's Song (Blue Pacific Blues) / The Heat's On (1953)	Mercury called it "Merco-Plastic"
KeithS SUBS 12th May 2021		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Silver On The Sage / Mexicali Rose (1938)	I've noticed that when Decca dusted off older recordings to include in an album, the could reverse the A & B sides. Like this one Maybe, over time, the B side became the more popular tune
KeithS SUBS 28th Apr 2021		78 RPM Oscar Rabin - Don't Fence Me In / Sleigh Ride In July (1945)	Seems like the artists listed are the original US version of each song
KeithS SUBS 6th Feb 2021		78 RPM Ted Heath And His Music - Vanessa / The Pipers' Patrol (1953)	F 43590 belongs in the German Decca catalogue system
KeithS SUBS 5th Jan 2021		78 RPM Ronnie Carroll - Last Love / My Believing Heart (1956)	When you blow up the image, there is a faint "E" making the word "Salvage"
KeithS SUBS 1st Jan 2021		78 RPM Frank Clifford - Tony The Ice Man / Subway Song (1949)	1200 series was Italian language and 1500 series English
KeithS SUBS 22nd Dec 2020		78 RPM Benny Goodman - There's A Small Hotel / That's A Plenty (1936)	Thanks, so it is. I've put it in a safe place till xiphophilos puts it right
KeithS SUBS 20th Dec 2020		78 RPM Jimmie Gordon And His Vip Vop Band - Delhia / St. Peter Blues (1939)	I don't believe Delhia's husband came after her with a loaded Gatling Gun...it would have been a bit on the heavy side
KeithS SUBS 29th Nov 2020		78 RPM Jack Turner - Hound Dog / I Couldn't Keep From Crying (1953)	Early electric bass sound
KeithS SUBS 23rd Nov 2020		78 RPM Sammy Salvo - Julie / Say Yeah (1957)	This was "Oh Julie" that the Crescendos had the hit with. It seems some copies had "Julie" and others "Oh Julie".
KeithS SUBS 18th Nov 2020		78 RPM Jane Froman - Gershwin Medley / Gems From "Oh Kay" (1938)	This One
KeithS SUBS 15th Nov 2020		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Merry Christmas (1945)	Its rare that these albums turn up complete. I find loads of single discs marked that they are part of a four, six or even a twelve disc album.....putting the albums together takes a lot of time and detective work.
KeithS SUBS 15th Nov 2020		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Merry Christmas (1945)	Pfew..not easy but I think I've got it right now
KeithS SUBS 9th Nov 2020		78 RPM Kenny Roberts - Tennessee Spelling Bee / I'm Unwanted (1955)	Mishler, Embert Francis ..and Joe Allison had "Marion" as middle name
KeithS SUBS 14th Oct 2020		78 RPM Nappy Brown - Open Up That Door (And Walk Right In My Heart) / Pleasin' You (1956)	[YouTube Video]
KeithS SUBS 3rd Oct 2020		78 RPM King Oliver And His Dixie Syncopators - Sugar Foot Stomp / Wa Wa Wa (1926)	[YouTube Video]
KeithS SUBS 7th Sep 2020		78 RPM Kaufman And Campbell - Me Too (Ho-Ho! Ha-Ha!) / If You Want To Find Love (1926)	If a disc is pressed on coloured shellac it must go in the notes otherwise it could be misinterpreted as still in its cover and edited away There are a few pictures like this at present
KeithS SUBS 3rd Aug 2020		78 RPM David Whitfield - Ev'rywhere / Mama (1955)	Bunny Lewis remembers I found a singer called David Whitfield and he was enormous, much bigger than Dickie Valentine. He was a dreadful fellow really. He’d been a merchant seaman and he was uncouth, to say the least. But he’d got this extraordinary voice; quite untrained, but it had the thrill of it, it had the kick and in a kind of rough looking way he was a good-looking fellow too. My wife went down and she heard this fellow David Whitfield, who had done a Hughie Green thing (Opportunity Knocks?) but nothing had happened. Also there was a friend of ours, Harold Landau, a sort of an agent, more of a manager. He heard this fellow too. My wife came back and said ‘I think we should get this chap; you should get him for Decca and I should get him for agency.’ From an interview with David Hughes
KeithS SUBS 1st Aug 2020		78 RPM Joyce Grenfell – Norman Wisdom - Narcissus (The Laughing Record) / I Don't 'Arf Love You (1952)	Norman Newell interview I was having lunch with Joyce Grenfell when she was appearing at the Saville Theatre and she was talking about her mother and said ‘She used to sing a song for us and I used to love to join in but I always started to laugh’ so then she sang and she started to laugh. It was so funny I was nearly on the floor. I said ‘You really must record it. You can’t have your mother on it, you must have someone else.’ I had just seen Norman Wisdom and when he sang "Don’t Laugh At Me", I thought ‘Right, that’s a hit’ and took him into the studios. So I said would he make a record with Joyce Grenfell. He said ‘Yes, I know Joyce Grenfell but I want top billing.’ So I went to Joyce and said ‘I’d love you to do "Narcissus" with Norman Wisdom but he wants top billing.’ And she said ‘What a silly man! I don’t care if I’m second or third.’
KeithS SUBS 1st Aug 2020		78 RPM Teddy Johnson And Jo Stafford - The Moment I Saw You / There's A Small Hotel (1951)	Norman Newell Interview I handled the English and American Columbia Records, which meant we had boxes of 78’s from America and I had to go through them and see if there were any American hits that could be issued in this country…Guy Mitchell, Johnny Mathis. I recorded a duet with Jo Stafford and Teddy Johnson. We did Teddy Johnson here and Jo Stafford over there and then joined them together!
KeithS SUBS 12th Jul 2020		78 RPM The Texas Duo - Wenn Der Cowboy Abends Spät / Little Joe (1948)	This was part of US London's International series although pressed in UK and freighted out like so many London discs of that time
KeithS SUBS 9th Jul 2020		78 RPM Little Richard - Long Tall Sally / Tutti Frutti (1957)	Theres also a mixture of "Specialty" an "Speciality"
KeithS SUBS 5th Jul 2020		78 RPM Louis Innis - My Dreamboat Struck A Snag / Oh! Babe (1950)	Billboard ad as "Louis"

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