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Member	Item		Review/Comment
LaurenceD SUBS 5th Aug 2013		78 RPM Jack Ross - Give It To Me Daddy / Put The Blame On Mame (1946)	I don't suppose that this is the same Jack Ross that released "Happy José" on Dot, some 16 years later. It's tough to find information about either individual. By the way I found a partial discography (pdf) for Trilon here.
LaurenceD SUBS 5th Aug 2013		78 RPM Milton Brown And His Brownies - Bring It On Down To My House Honey / Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider (1946)	"Bring It" was actually recorded after Milton Brown's death (Apr 18, 1936), at a session led by his brother, Derwood Brown.
LaurenceD SUBS 21st Jul 2013		78 RPM Mickey Katz And His Kosher-Jammers - Haim Afen Range (Home On The Range) / Yiddish Square Dance (1947)	I think that this was Mickey's first release under his own name. Note how the band members' names have been 'Kosher-ized'.
LaurenceD SUBS 20th Jul 2013		78 RPM Clyde Choyce - How Can It Be / Madly In Love (1950)	Could not find any information about this artist. This might be the Jade label affiliated with Sittin' In With (which would place it around 1950), but I'm not sure.
LaurenceD SUBS 20th Jul 2013		78 RPM Little David - Macayo / Cryin' Blues (1952)	These sides later appeared on RPM 371. Does anyone know who this Little David is, and if he's also the composer? The short-lived International label was run by Sam Lane. I have seen copies of #101 by Sammy Franklin, and I believe that there is a release by Jimmy Huff (# unknown). I don't know of any other releases.
LaurenceD SUBS 20th Jul 2013		78 RPM Lynn Hope Quintet - Tenderly / Song Of The Wanderer (1950)	"Song Of The Wanderer" was the designated A-side, "Tenderly" was the hit.
LaurenceD SUBS 8th Jul 2013		78 RPM Les Paul And Mary Ford - How High The Moon / Walkin' And Whistlin' Blues (1951)	Changed date from recording date (Jan 4) to release date (Mar 26).
LaurenceD SUBS 4th Jul 2013		78 RPM Mel Tormé - Night And Day / But Beautiful (1948)	The first Musicraft ad (Billboard Feb 14) shows the top side as "Day and Night" ! Corrected the following week.
LaurenceD SUBS 4th Jul 2013		78 RPM Bobby Sherwood - The Elks' Parade / Sherwood's Forest (1948)	I wonder what is meant by the "AMO" in the matrix.
LaurenceD SUBS 4th Jul 2013		78 RPM Lord Nelson And His Boppers - Stardust / Ratio And Proportion (1948)	"Lord Nelson" is Sonny Stitt, accompanied here by: Willie Wells, Milt Jackson, Will Davis, Jimmy Glover, Dave Heard
LaurenceD SUBS 29th Jun 2013		78 RPM Todd Rhodes - Sportree's Jump / Blues For The Red Boy (1948)	"Blues For The Red Boy" was the designated B-side, but became the hit.
LaurenceD SUBS 10th Jun 2013		78 RPM Woody Herman - Woodchopper's Ball / Indian Boogie Woogie (1947)	I found the release date on the label of this 45.
LaurenceD SUBS 8th Jun 2013		78 RPM Illinois Jacquet And His All Stars - Ghost Of A Chance / Bottoms Up (1946)	Despite the different label designs, both images are from the same copy.
LaurenceD SUBS 8th Jun 2013		78 RPM Big Sid Catlett Quartet - Sleep / Linger Awhile (1945)	I'm not sure how to date this. My dating guides (Steven Barr, Galen Gart) position it at late 1945, but Billboard doesn't list it until late 1947.
LaurenceD SUBS 3rd Jun 2013		78 RPM Lionel Hampton - Jack The Bellboy / Central Avenue Breakdown (1940)	"Jack the Bellboy" was a pseudonym for DJ Ed McKenzie at WJBK Detroit. Both sides feature the King Cole Trio.
LaurenceD SUBS 22nd May 2013		78 RPM Jazz At The Philharmonic - Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic Vol. 3 (1946)	Hi fixbutte, that's a very interesting list. I have no idea which cover was first. This copy was purchased some time in the 1940s by a friend who passed away some years ago. I happen to have two of these covers and both are the same shade, so I think that what you see is the original color. The binder is black, and the back cover is burgundy. By the way, the sort of moiré patterns on this cover scan are an artifact from my Canon scanner, which does not do well with bright pinkish objects. I will have to look at my driver settings and see if there's a way to correct that.
LaurenceD SUBS 21st May 2013		78 RPM Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - Swing Music 1941 Series No. 445 & 446 (1941)	Nice! That's Ivie Anderson on the vocal.
LaurenceD SUBS 21st May 2013		78 RPM Julia Lee And Her Boy Friends - Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got / Lies (1946)	Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got: [YouTube Video]
LaurenceD SUBS 19th May 2013		78 RPM Various Artists - Girls In Jazz (1948)	According to Soul on soul: the life and music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy Lynn Kernodle, this album was released in late 1946, and reviewed in Metronome in Jan 1947, but I cannot find any other evidence to back that assertion.
LaurenceD SUBS 19th May 2013		78 RPM José Iturbi - Music To Remember From The Life Of Chopin (1945)	Iturbi played the Chopin pieces (many of them in abridged form) in the 1945 film A Song To Remember, and this album looks like an attempt to capitalize on the success of that film -- although the album notes do not mention the film specifically.
LaurenceD SUBS 12th May 2013		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Black Brown and Beige (1946)	This release came in a paper gatefold cover, which unfortunately I do not possess. It was re-issued as RCA Victor DC 39 with a more sturdy album cover.
LaurenceD SUBS 9th May 2013		78 RPM Sergei Rachmaninoff With Leopold Stokowski And The Philadelphia Orchestra - Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor (1940)	The things you had to put up with to listen to an entire concerto in those days! As I understand it, this recording has never been out of print since its release in 1929.
LaurenceD SUBS 4th May 2013		78 RPM Dimitri Mitropoulos Conducting The Robin Hood Dell Orchestra - Chopiniana (1946)	The 'red shadow' on the cover is not part of the artwork - I think that someone spilled a beverage on it...
LaurenceD SUBS 28th Apr 2013		78 RPM Comedy Harmonists - Creole Love Call / Night And Day (1933)	Count me in as a new convert! Thanks to all of you.
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Apr 2013		78 RPM Count Basie - Robin's Nest / Your Red Wagon (1948)	The correct spelling of the A-side composition is "Robbins Nest", as the song is a tribute to disc jockey Fred Robbins.
LaurenceD SUBS 30th Mar 2013		78 RPM Pearl Bailey - - But, What Are These! / I Need Ya Like I Need A Hole In The Head (1947)	Apologies, my copy has the same label on both sides. And I am admittedly guessing as to which is the A-side of this release.
LaurenceD SUBS 29th Mar 2013		78 RPM Bunny Berigan - Bunny Berigan Memorial Album (1942)	Thanks for fixing the release date. I can see from Google Books that the Victor Record Review of 1942 does mention this release, and Victor 20-1504 by Freddy Martin is advertised in the Oct 24 1942 Billboard. It certainly would have made sense to release this as soon as possible after Berigan's passing. As W.B.lbl said, the war years may have had an effect on actual production of this issue, because it appears that other record review periodicals do not mention this album until 1944. To answer your question fixbutte, they edited out the 45-second intro so that the record starts with the opening phrase of the main melody. That still leaves about 4:01, so the grooves had to be compressed somewhat, but the sound quality is not bad, and the volume is comparable to that of the other sides.
LaurenceD SUBS 16th Mar 2013		78 RPM Benny Goodman - Let's Dance With Benny Goodman (1947)	Just for fun, I uploaded the original receipt for this album (this one was $3.57); it was purchased by a friend. I'll remove the image after a bit.
LaurenceD SUBS 8th Mar 2013		78 RPM Various Artists - Vol. 8 Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic (1948)	Ah, forgot one step. Fixed.
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Mar 2013		78 RPM Eddy Howard - To Each His Own / Careless (1946)	First release of To Each his Own was on Majestic 7188, paired with Cynthia's In Love. To Each his Own was a #1 hit for Eddy, but both releases have that song as the designated B-side.

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