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Member	Item		Review/Comment
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Dec 2014		78 RPM Miff Mole - Nick's presents his Dixieland Jazz Band featuring "Miff" Mole (1945)	Recorded March 2, 1945 From what I can gather, it looks like these albums were sold at Nick Rongetti's restaurant, where Miff's band performed regularly in 1945. This album included an 8-page booklet which unfortunately is missing from my copy. These tracks have been reissued on the Storyville label, but under Muggsy Spanier's name.
LaurenceD SUBS 3rd Dec 2014		78 RPM The Clovers - I Played The Fool / Hey, Miss Fannie (1952)	Posted some more readable labels, with respect to coveboy.
LaurenceD SUBS 27th Oct 2014		78 RPM Lillie Mae And The House Rockers - Lovin' Man Blues / Lonesome (1948)	Lillie Mae also released titles as: - Ramona Hicks (Bluebird, c. 1939) - Lillie Mae Kirkman (Vocalion, c. 1939) This was her last appearance on record.
LaurenceD SUBS 15th Oct 2014		78 RPM Sheriff John - Nosey Rosey / Small Fry Mambo (1955)	Sorry about the condition of this one. I guess that's what can happen when little kids play with 78s. Most if not all of these Sheriff John singles came with picture sleeves; I have not managed to acquire a sleeve so far.
LaurenceD SUBS 13th Oct 2014		78 RPM Ethel Smith And The Bando Carioca - Tico-Tico / Lero Lero / Bem Te Vi Atrevido (1944)	Although they're credited on the B-side label, I don't seem to hear The Bando Carioca on that track; and I see that the linked UK issue does not credit them for that side.
LaurenceD SUBS 4th Oct 2014		78 RPM Lee Roy - Man On The Beat / B. O. Plenty (1953)	Added images from a promo copy. The labels look darker than normal, they're actually gray rather than white in this instance.
LaurenceD SUBS 14th Sep 2014		78 RPM The Cell Block Seven - Mama Don't Allow It / Tin Roof Blues (1953)	I don't possess any other green ones myself, so I don't know. The one other Columbia promo that I found in the same batch (Pete Rugolo, 40222) has a white label.
LaurenceD SUBS 16th Aug 2014		78 RPM Ethel Davenport - Leaning On The Lord / I Will Wait Till My Change Come (1950)	Jimmy Blythe, Jr. Trio: Sammy Price [as Jimmy Blythe, Jr.], piano; Al Casey, guitar; Ernest Hill, bass; Herbert Cowans, drums
LaurenceD SUBS 19th Jul 2014		78 RPM "Dusty" Fletcher - Open The Door, Richard! (1947)	Dusty Fletcher had been performing the "Open The Door, Richard" vaudeville routine for many years before Jack McVea released the first recorded version on Black & White in September of 1946, hence the "By the Originator" tag on this release.
LaurenceD SUBS 19th Jul 2014		78 RPM The Orioles - Crying In The Chapel / Don't You Think I Ought To Know (1953)	Added upgraded label scans, with a nod to coveboy.
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Jul 2014		78 RPM Harley Luse And His Blue Ridge Mountain Boys - Red Wing / Rainbow (1947)	This is one of a series of four square dance records (1009-1012) that could be purchased separately, I believe. The earliest reference that I could find was in a square dance newsletter from April 1947, but the release date might be as early as 1946.
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Jul 2014		78 RPM The Sepia Tones - Boogie #1 / Sophisticated Blues (1945)	That's an appropriate song title for the first Juke Box release :-)
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Jul 2014		78 RPM Hank Thompson And His Brazos Valley Boys - (I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart / Today (1947)	Most copies that I've seen have the Americana designation, unlike mine. We could change the label to Americana; I'm undecided...
LaurenceD SUBS 28th Jun 2014		78 RPM Barbara Cameron - An Invitation To Love (1947)	I only have one disc from this album, but I was able to gather enough information to list the entire set, so here it is. Maybe someone else has some other sides to add. These 78 rpm King albums seem to be kind of scarce; It's tough to find details about the releases, or how many albums were released. There is some info about Barbara Cameron, and a mention of this album here.
LaurenceD SUBS 27th Jun 2014		78 RPM Sons Of The Pioneers - Grieving My Heart Out For You (1946)	This seems to be an acetate or test pressing, on thin, flexible vinyl-like material. The matrix numbers match those from the B-side of RCA Victor 20-1868. The back side has a silent groove with "RCA" stamped in the dead wax.
LaurenceD SUBS 15th Jun 2014		78 RPM Korla Pandit - They Say (Tonight You Belong To Me) / Remembering (1951)	According to a June 2 1951 Billboard article, Mills Music complained that the words and music of "Tonight You Belong To Me" were altered on this release, and suggested that it be re-recorded, which Vita refused to do. The article also states that the song in question was released in March.
LaurenceD SUBS 31st May 2014		78 RPM Sam Hinton - Old Man Atom (Talking Atomic Blues) / Long John (1950)	Apparently there were complaints that Old Man Atom was pro-communist, and stations were reluctant to play it, so Columbia pulled the record. See this page for more information. The Sep 2 1950 Billboard issue is full of 'anti-Red' editorials and lists of organizations designated as subversive.
LaurenceD SUBS 31st May 2014		78 RPM Sun Valley Trio - It Happened In Sun Valley / The Hokey Pokey	The Sun Valley Trio issued a version of The Hokey Pokey on 4 Star in August 1950. I'm guessing that this record appeared around that time.
LaurenceD SUBS 31st May 2014		78 RPM Timmie Rogers - Fla-Ga-La-Pa / Good Whiskey (And A Bad Woman) (1946)	A newer recording of Fla-Ga-La-Pa; Timmie had previously issued the song on Excelsior 136 in 1945.
LaurenceD SUBS 21st May 2014		78 RPM Rosemary Clooney - Happy Birthday, My Darling (1955)	45stalker, your label is from a different release. I created a GIB-8 entry and moved your image there. I also augmented the list of releases in the notes. Does anyone know the cat# for the "Dear Brother" release? I've yet to see a copy.
LaurenceD SUBS 26th Apr 2014		78 RPM Benny Goodman - Remember / Walk, Jennie, Walk (1936)	Gene Krupa misspelled as G. Grupa on the A-side (image 442346).
LaurenceD SUBS 11th Mar 2014		78 RPM Roy Milton And His Solid Senders - Big Fat Mama / Thrill Me (1947)	For whatever reason, this record was listed in Billboard's Advance Race Record Releases three separate times. I set this entry's date to the first occurrence.
LaurenceD SUBS 11th Mar 2014		78 RPM Lowell Fulson's Combo - Everyday I Have The Blues / Rocking After Midnight (1950)	While Gérard Herzhaft's Encyclopedia of the Blues dates this at 7/49, Billboard and Galen Gart's ARLD suggest mid-1950.
LaurenceD SUBS 11th Mar 2014		78 RPM Al "Jazzbo" Collins - Jack And The Beanstalk / Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1953)	Al had not yet signed a contract with Brunswick when he recorded Little Red Riding Hood for them. When he later found out that they were planning a follow-up release ("Cinderella") with Steve Allen as artist, he signed with Capitol and recorded these sides.
LaurenceD SUBS 11th Mar 2014		78 RPM Stan Freberg - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise / The Boogie-Woogie Banjo Man From Birmingham (1952)	Stan's 'tribute' to Les Paul and Mary Ford: The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise [YouTube Video]
LaurenceD SUBS 2nd Mar 2014		78 RPM Cyril Smith [singer] - The Old Sow Song / With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (1949)	ARLD dates this release as sometime in 1949. I am guessing that this is the actor Cyril Edward Bruce-Smith (1892–1963). It seems that he released these same two songs for the Enterprise label in 1947 (#259); I don't know if these are the same recordings. His first recordings of these songs appeared on a Rudy Vallée record in 1937 (Bluebird B-7078). Update: seems that my guess was incorrect. This is a different Cyril Smith (c.1903-1950); I have included his obit from Billboard, Jan 21 1950. I don't know much more about him beyond what is in that snippet. I have also disambiguated him as [singer] to separate him from the pianoforte player.
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Mar 2014		78 RPM Felix Figueroa - Pico And Sepulveda (The Street Song) / She Of The Black Coffee Eyes (1946)	This is really Freddy Martin, of course, whose band at that time was in residence at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. He opened up his own record shop in the hotel, then launched his Ambassador label to release some of his own recordings (under various pseudonyms) along with those of other artists. These sides were later re-released in 1947 on an Enterprise-distributed Ambassador label with the catalog number 275. Los Angeles residents may recall "Pico And Sepulveda" as becoming the unofficial theme song for FM station KMET around 1970. I suspect that Barrett Hansen may have had something to do with that.
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Mar 2014		78 RPM Freddy Martin - (There's A) Bluebird On Your Windowsill / I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts (1949)	(Sorry about the A-side image - I may go back and perform some cosmetic surgery on it, unless a better copy turns up). Merv has often mentioned that he really hated I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts, so naturally it turned out to be his most popular recording...
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Mar 2014		78 RPM Spike Jones And His City Slickers - Der Fuehrer's Face / I Wanna Go Back To West Virginia (1942)	Added an alternate A-side, the difference being that the Disney film is referred to as "Nuttsey Land" (the original working title) rather than "Der Fuehrer's Face". Apparently Spike Jones got permission to release his version of the song prior to the film's release. By the time the film did appear (Jan 1, 1943), it seems that Disney decided to change the film's title to match that of the hit record.
LaurenceD SUBS 17th Feb 2014		78 RPM Rev. G. W. Killens And The Mt. Calvary Congregation - Father I Stretch My Arm To Thee / Same Man (1951)	Billboard Sep 1, 1951, p.24 article "Modern Returns To Spiritual Pressings" mentions Sep. 10 releases planned for RPM nos. 334 & 335 and Modern no. 838, all with yellow labels to differentiate them from regular releases.

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