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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Klepsie 28th Jun 2016		78 RPM Rossini's Accordeon Band - Swing Time (Part 1) / Swing Time (Part 2) (1936)	Music from the 1936 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film. A side can be listened to online at Woolworths Museum.
Klepsie 28th Jun 2016		78 RPM The Swing Rhythm Boys - Somebody Stole My Gal / Some Of These Days (1936)	A side recorded 10 September 1936 in London according to Jazz Standards on Record 1900-1942.
Klepsie 6th Mar 2016		78 RPM Alan Turner - Rule Britannia / God Save The King (1909)	Suenaumy, looks like you have a Canadian copy there (note Montreal address toward the bottom). Will need a separate entry. [Moved here. mod]
Klepsie 4th Mar 2016		78 RPM Koloa Guitar Band - Lazy Lou'siana Moon / Happy Days Are Here Again (1930)	Date and info about B side source from discography here
Klepsie 4th Mar 2016		78 RPM Stanley Holloway - The Lion And Albert / Three Ha'Pence A Foot (1932)	Added variant labels (later?) with speed below title instead of below matrix.
Klepsie 22nd Sep 2014		78 RPM George Formby - With My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock / Oh, Dear Mother (1937)	One of many Formby records allegedly banned by the BBC for smuttiness (see here for instance). Seems so very innocent now...
Klepsie 20th Mar 2014		78 RPM Tommy Steele And Tommy Steele - What Do You Do / I Put's The Lightie On (1958)	I think it's actually a reference to the fact that Tommy sings two vocal parts on that side due to the wonders of multi-tracking.
Klepsie 10th Nov 2013		78 RPM Humphrey Lyttelton - 1956 Super Rhythm Style Series (1956)	There was an export issue 45rpm, but I don't know if there was a 78rpm equivalent. Not mentioned here yet is that this was the first hit record produced by Joe Meek.
Klepsie 10th Nov 2013		78 RPM Humphrey Lyttelton - Melancholy Blues / The Thin Red Line (1949)	http://www.jazzdisco.org/humphrey-lyttelton/discography/ suggests there were five 78s on Humph's London Jazz label by Humph himself with his band.
Klepsie 9th Nov 2013		78 RPM Bobby Howes And Sepha Treble - Mind How You Go Across The Road / The Music Master (Song Of The Cello) (1935)	Two songs from Please Teacher, a British light comedy film. The 78 version of the A side is considerably longer than that sung in the movie: [YouTube Video]
Klepsie 9th Nov 2013		78 RPM Massed Bands Of The Aldershot Command - Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo, 1934 (1935)	And another tune you didn't know you knew; it's "'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go". LT=1947-48 pressing, once more.
Klepsie 9th Nov 2013		78 RPM Massed Bands Of The Aldershot Command - Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo 1932 (1932)	Added label variants with curtailed rim text and A side layout differences. The LT tax code makes these a 1947-48 pressing; how long records stayed on catalogue in those days! The B side is actually a medley of "Marching Through Georgia" and "Swanee River", though the latter is uncredited on labels.
Klepsie 9th Nov 2013		78 RPM The Band Of H.M. Coldstream Guards - Entry Of The Gladiators / Sons Of The Brave (1933)	One of those tunes you didn't know you knew; it forms the basis for "Yakety Sax".
Klepsie 9th Nov 2013		78 RPM Edythe Baker - Sweet And Lovely / Just One More Chance (1931)	Edythe Baker 1899-1971. Not much boogieing or woogieing on this pair.
Klepsie 31st Oct 2013		78 RPM Freddie Bell And The Bell Boys - Giddy-Up-A Ding Dong / I Said It And I'm Glad (1956)	Mercury were distributed by Pye (Nixa) at that time, and Pye were late into the 45rpm stakes (though not so late as Philips) -- first 45rpm July 1957 (though that may be the date of the 78 release as the next ones aren't till November, which would fit with the Mercury dates) If you really want it on UK 45rpm, Old Gold did it...
Klepsie 19th Oct 2013		78 RPM Humphrey Lyttelton - Melancholy Blues / The Thin Red Line (1949)	Label needs differentiating from the subsequent London Jazz sub-label of (Decca) London. As the notes say, this was Humphrey Lyttelton's short-lived label prior to his contract with Parlophone.
Klepsie 19th Oct 2013		78 RPM Rev. J. M. Gates - Need Of Prayer / Death's Black Train Is Coming	I think Square should be the label name and that "Race Records" is a descriptor rather than a label name. It was normal practice in those days for record companies to use that term for records targeted at that ethnic community.
Klepsie 18th Oct 2013		78 RPM Dave Barry With Sara Berner - Out Of This World With Flying Saucers (Part One) / Out Of This World With Flying Saucers (Part Two) (1956)	Not the Miami Dave Barry, former member of the Federal Duck (no matter what the YouTube description claims -- he would have been aged 9 at the time -- though the thought of him making a break-in record is not without appeal.)
Klepsie 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Mr. Gervase Elwes - Absent, Yet Present / To Daisies (1915)	Oddly, "Nipper" is in colour on the A side but monochrome on the B side (the monochrome version being the older label which was replaced by the colour one circa Sept 1919 according to this page -- which may help date this pressing.)
Klepsie 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Band Of H.M. Coldstream Guards - O Sole Mio / The Rosary (1912)	Although the labels thus far uploaded look like a mid-1920s repressing..
Klepsie 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Reginald Foort - Overture "Poet And Peasant" -- Part 1 / Overture "Poet And Peasant" -- Part 2 (1943)	Biographical page for Reginald Foort here.
Klepsie 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Black Dyke Mills Band - Light Cavalry Overture -- Part 1 / Light Cavalry Overture -- Part 2 (1940)	First entry to 78rpm for this band, but there will be more; they recorded vast amounts before Paul McCartney was born or thought of, often popular-classical pieces such as this one.
Klepsie 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Band Of H.M. Coldstream Guards - Down South / Teddy Bears' Picnic (1929)	An oddity -- the A side label is 3.25" across while the B side is only 2.75". Apparently the small labels were used to allow for the pressing of a longer track than normal on a 78 (see here).
Klepsie 13th Oct 2013		78 RPM Paul Robeson - Dear Old Southland / Nothin' (1940)	Some interesting facts about the A side song here; according to that page it was based on the spiritual "Deep River" (which Robeson also recorded, in 1927).
Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Billy Cotton - I'll Walk Alone / Rock Of Gibraltar (1952)	Release date from here.
Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Lee Lawrence - So Ends My Search For A Dream (Addornientarmi Cosi) / Gipsy Lullaby (1949)	One of the many British crooners who found themselves out of favour when the rock era dawned. Died aged only 40 in 1961.
Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Besses O' The Barn Band - Besses O' The Barn / I Passed By Your Window (1924)	Brass band founded in 1818 and still going strong today (see here). Dear Sir, is this a record?
Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) / Silent Night, Holy Night (1948)	The chart hit must have been a belated one; the CT tax code means this copy is 1950 at the latest. It was probably one of those records that sold by the cartload every Christmas, like Slade some decades later... (Of course the only charts prior to '52 were sheet music, not recordings)
Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM The Five Smith Brothers - The Shoemaker's Serenade / When It's Evening (1948)	Added date from here
Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		78 RPM Joyce Frazer - I Went To Your Wedding / Moon Above Malaya (1952)	Date from this listing, which shows that no less than ten versions of the A side, including Patti Page's US #1 version (on Oriole), were released by UK record labels in October and November 1952 (though the tax stamp shows this copy was still in dealer stock as of April 1953). This high level of competition may explain why none of them hit the newly-created pop charts.

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