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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Klepsie 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Five Smith Brothers - The Shoemaker's Serenade / When It's Evening (1948)	Circa 1947-48 (LT tax code, A side centre)
Klepsie 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Five Smith Brothers - Back To Donegal / In Dear Old Glasgow Toon (Hearts Of Glasgow) (1948)	Given their choice of songs you'd expect them to be Irish or Scots, but they were in fact Geordies. Date circa 1947-48 (LT tax code, side B centre).
Klepsie 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - My Mammy / Sonny Boy (1947)	Added label scans (1947-48 pressings) for what is probably a pairing of his two best known songs. A side from "The Jolson Story" (1946); B side from "The Singing Fool" (1928).
Klepsie 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody / California, Here I Come (1947)	Added older pressings with LT tax code (1947-8).
Klepsie 11th Oct 2013		78 RPM Al Jolson - Avalon / Anniversary Song (1947)	A side had been a hit for Jolson as far back as 1920, though the matrix numbers suggest this must be a re-recording as the B side is definitely from 1946, both sides coming from the film "The Jolson Story" released that year. Speaking of which, I suspect the Brunswick discography needs some attention, as the records either side of this one in catalogue order are both dated as 1943; the credit to the aforementioned movie shows that this one cannot predate 1946...
Klepsie 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Careless Hands / Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (1949)	Added clean label scans.
Klepsie 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Lullaby (Cradle Song) / Ave Maria (1948)	A side had been in the US charts for Crosby as early as 1941, but for whatever reason it looks as if the UK didn't get it till after the war?
Klepsie 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Out Of This World / June Comes Around Every Year (1945)	Both songs from "Out of this World" (a 1945 movie starring Veronica Lake).
Klepsie 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Ridin' Down The Canyon / San Fernando Valley (1944)	A side from "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", a 1935 Gene Autry film. TT tax code (1943-46) signified 100% purchase tax! and we complain about VAT...
Klepsie 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Love In Bloom / Straight From The Shoulder (Right From The Heart) (1934)	Added label scans. Not sure if these are the originals or a later pressing.
Klepsie 10th Oct 2013		78 RPM H. Charrington - Piano By H. Charrington, Pueblo 1952 (1952)	Since I now own a deck that will play 78rpms I gave this curio a spin. Turns out there are two tracks each side, all unaccompanied piano; A1 sounds classical, the other three sound popular, but I recognise none of them. The pianist was a pretty decent player.
Klepsie 5th Oct 2013		78 RPM Ozzie Nelson - I'm Looking For A Guy Who Plays Alto And Baritone And Doubles On A Clarinet And Wears A Size 37 Suit / Make Believe Danceland (1940)	One letter shorter now I've corrected it :p
Klepsie 4th Oct 2013		78 RPM Cliff Richard And The Shadows - Twenty Flight Rock / Please Don't Tease (1960)	B side was "Please Don't Tease" according to Cliff's overseas discography here, so have added it.
Klepsie 4th Oct 2013		78 RPM Donn Reynolds And The Texans - Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Ramona (1958)	And it's perhaps worth noting that these came from 45cat originally; this was one of the very last Pye issues to come out on 78rpm but not 45.
Klepsie 2nd Oct 2013		78 RPM Grace Johnston - You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?) / Sweet Jennie Lee! (1930)	A side from US Melotone 12032; B side from Melotone 12010. Revived many years later and taken to #1 by the Temperance Seven, of course. Anyone seen an older "not for sale" sticker than this one?
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Buddy Prince - I'm In Seventh Heaven / Little Pal (1929)	Several sources give "Buddy Prince" as being a nom-du-disque of Frank Braidwood, presumably the same F.B. who recorded for Edison Diamond Discs. There was a 1920s movie actor of that name, but whether it's the same person I don't know.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Bronislaw Huberman - Mélodie (From "Orfeo") / Hungarian Dance No. 7 (A Major) (1923)	Unsure of date; Brunswick Cliftophone was Brunswick's first UK outlet, running for a few years from November 1923. This release uses the same cat. no. as the US Brunswick release. Bronislaw Huberman was a very well-known Polish-Jewish musician of the era, who went on to be hailed a hero of his people for managing to facilitate the escape from Nazi Germany of many Jewish musicians.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Gay Ellis And Her Sizzlin' Syncopators - I've Got "It" (But It Don't Do Me No Good) / Nobody Cares If I'm Blue (1930)	"Gay Ellis" was a pseudonym of Annette Hanshaw, qv. A side from US issue Harmony 1155, B side from Harmony 1196.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Nat Gonella And His New Georgians - The Booglie Wooglie Piggy / Sentimental Interlude (1941)	Added label colour variations, with B side publisher box also apparently different.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Phil Harris - Woodman, Spare That Tree / The Dark Town Poker Club (1947)	Added a further A side variant, and reordered scans to date order (LT=1947-48, DT=1948-50, DTP=1950-53), which suggests that the "Berlin, Brian" composer credit on the A side was on later copies than the "Bert Williams, Phil Harris" one.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM The Stargazers - The Skiffling Dogs / Out Of This World (1957)	Added A side without sticker. Records referencing or satirising sputniks and skiffle weren't exactly uncommon in 1957, but it must have taken a certain level of insane genius to conceive of writing a song about what the skiffle stars of the day would have been like if they happened to be dogs...
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Peter Lind Hayes - Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It? / That Certain Party (1949)	Added a "CT" variant with minor layout changes on A side and B side NCB box moved compared to gregs78s' copy. Also reordered scans to date order (CT=1948 - 30 Dec 1950; +IP=30 Dec 1950 - 15 Apr 1953; N=15 Apr 1953 - 27 Oct 1955).
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Danny Kaye - St. Louis Blues / Ballin' The Jack (1948)	Added B side with Mecolico publisher credit.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Danny Kaye And The Andrews Sisters - Civilisation (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) / Bread And Butter Woman (1948)	Added LT tax code scans. "Civilisation" was the song notoriously sung by bent copper Harold "Tanky" Challenor while arresting non-white victims to fit up.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Danny Kaye - Bloop Bleep / I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947)	Added variants with LT tax code -- probably a first pressing, as this code was superseded by CT on 9 April 1948. Note that both the LT and CT B side scans have the double-scratch across the Brunswick logo; presumably a damaged stamper which wasn't thought worthwhile replacing?
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Danny Kaye And The Andrews Sisters - Big Brass Band From Brazil / It's A Quiet Town (1948)	Also released on UK Decca, cat no FM 5468 -- not sure which is the original. A side from "Angel in the Wings" (a 1947 Broadway musical).
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM The Silver Stars Band - Colonel Bogey March / Belphegor March (1916)	Little known fact: "Kenneth J. Alford" was a pseudonym -- the composer was an Army bandmaster and regulations of the day (1914, only a couple of years before this release) forbade servicemen from any other paid employment, not excluding composing. "Alford" could hardly have guessed that over the next fifty years his tune would become known by every schoolchild with scatological lyrics added, or that over the next hundred years that version would become a universal symbol of mass resistance in the face of an enemy (the list of such instances here is without doubt hugely incomplete).
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Jay Wilbur - Party Dances (I) / Party Dances (II) (1934)	Might have been an early EP, if they'd thought of that name; both sides are "double-length" compared to a normal 78 (or 45), though both are one single track. Wilbur was a prolific recorder, often for budget labels under pseudonyms.
Klepsie 1st Oct 2013		78 RPM Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers - I Promise To Remember / Who Can Explain? (1956)	Added B side -- which, incidentally, is so close a carbon-copy of "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" as to be almost indistinguishable from it.
Klepsie 13th Aug 2013		78 RPM The Ray Ellington Quartet - The 1950 Super Rhythm-Style Series Nos. 7 / 8 (1950)	Copy of this is on eBay at the moment; label scan shows it to be "The 1950 Super Rhythm Style Series, No. 8".

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