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Member	Item		Review/Comment
mister_tmg 27th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Home Sweet Home / Ma Curly Headed Baby (1950)	Seems a bit odd to issue this over ten years after it had been recorded?
mister_tmg 26th Feb 2024		78 RPM Vera Lynn - The Wind Cannot Read / Every Hour, Every Day Of My Life (1958)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
mister_tmg 7th Feb 2024		78 RPM Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again (1960)	Quote from Greg Butler in an old Guardian article: "If you have a mint condition 78 of Elvis singing Mess of Blues, that will be worth about £1,000,"Butler says. "Roy Orbison's Only the Lonely on a 78 would probably fetch £400. That's what is so fascinating about this. All over Britain, there are families with 78s stuck in their lofts gathering dust. In many cases they are sitting on a gold mine." Snap, crackle and pop I think Greg is probably just citing the RRPG value there though.
mister_tmg 25th Jan 2024		78 RPM Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven / Cut Across Shorty (1960)	The new RRPG book lists this at £400. I’ve written to the editor suggesting they remove it, as there’s no evidence it exists. It also lists the following: Roy Orbison 1960: London HLU 9149 Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again (78) £400 Jimmy Jones 1960: MGM MGM 1078 Good Timin’ / Too Long Will Be Too Late (78) £80 Johnny Preston 1960: Mercury AMT 1079 Running Bear / My Heart Knows (78) £40
mister_tmg 25th Jan 2024		78 RPM Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again (1960)	The new RRPG book lists this at £400. I’ve written to the editor suggesting they remove it, as there’s no evidence it exists. It also lists the following: Jimmy Jones 1960: MGM MGM 1078 Good Timin’ / Too Long Will Be Too Late (78) £80 Eddie Cochran 1960: London HLG 9115 Three Steps To Heaven / Cut Across Shorty (78) £400 Johnny Preston 1960: Mercury AMT 1079 Running Bear / My Heart Knows (78) £40
mister_tmg 25th Jan 2024		78 RPM Harry Roy - Bugle Call Rag / Nobody's Sweetheart (1934)	Both these songs were first popular in 1924.
mister_tmg 6th Jan 2024		78 RPM Cliff Richard - The Twelfth Of Never / I'm Afraid To Go Home (1964)	Currently on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364663166945?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=k9EuRJJGSyG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=4XRmfhTWTlK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
mister_tmg 11th Nov 2023		78 RPM Steve Stannard - Perfidia / Pepe (1961)	Good to know!
mister_tmg 31st Oct 2023		78 RPM Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) / Here Comes That Song Again (1960)	But there’s almost no evidence it actually exists. The member here who claims to have the record has failed to produce it after several years.
mister_tmg 18th Oct 2023		78 RPM Steve Stannard - Perfidia / Pepe (1961)	So was this shellac, rather than vinyl - meaning that shellac records were still being made in 1961? The earlier comment suggests that Embassy's later 78s were shellac. @liskeard78s, many older 78s would have remained in the catalogue, I believe, so that isn't surprising. Something to look out for. I wonder when the last ones were deleted...
mister_tmg 15th Oct 2023		78 RPM Larry Cross - Three Coins In The Fountain / If I Could Write A Song (1954)	The Jerry Vale song wasn’t released until 1972, and has different writers! https://www.45cat.com/record/310042
mister_tmg 18th Sep 2023		78 RPM Quarry Men - That'll Be The Day / In Spite Of All The Danger (1958)	Some more information about the recording studio here and here.
mister_tmg 18th Sep 2023		78 RPM Ken Dodd - Tonight Beloved / It Is No Secret (1957)	More information here and here I contacted the website, and Peter Phillips (Percy's grandson) replied. He confirmed that the two sides were indeed on the same record: "Yes, the two songs you mention are both on the same disc, side 1 and side 2. Both recorded at the same session on 30th March 1957, with Ken singing and Percy's wife Hilda Phillips on piano."
mister_tmg 12th Sep 2023		78 RPM Paul Fennelly - A Tree In The Meadow / Reflections In The Water (1948)	Oddly, Paul Fennelly is Paul Fenoulhet; the giveaway is the fact that the vocalists are Reggie Goff and Doreen Lundy, respectively, who were British singers. Not sure why Paul's name was changed for the American market, although the A-side did make #21 on the Billboard Juke Box chart, so it wasn't in vain. That side doesn't appear to have been issued in the UK, but the B-side was (with another coupling).
mister_tmg 12th Sep 2023		78 RPM Frankie Laine - Rain, Rain, Rain / Your Heart (1954)	The B-side, Your Heart-My Heart, spent a week on the sheet music charts in November 1954, where it made #24. There was a cover by Dick James released that month, but by the time the Woolf Phillips version came out in December, the song had perhaps been and gone.
mister_tmg 12th Sep 2023		78 RPM Clark Dennis - Granada / My Love For You (1954)	Interesting to see that Polygon gave this record a new matrix/master number with a PL prefix.
mister_tmg 11th Sep 2023		78 RPM Frankie Laine - If Spring Never Comes / Bring Your Smile Along (1955)	"Bring Your Smile Along" made number 10 on the Record Mirror chart.
mister_tmg 5th Sep 2023		78 RPM Penny Nicholls - Skokiaan / Aladdins Lamp (1954)	That seems to have been the case, at least for the first few years? Or just in the early days of the label. Of course, apart from these “originals”, Embassy issued 45rpm covers of new songs that didn’t become hits, musical theatre scores and seasonal numbers.
mister_tmg 5th Sep 2023		78 RPM Angela Baddeley - The Bargain Counter / Kate On The Underground (1930)	I guessed something like that. Any chance you could put it online for us please?!
mister_tmg 3rd Sep 2023		78 RPM Angela Baddeley - The Bargain Counter / Kate On The Underground (1930)	Would be interesting to hear Kate On The Underground - presumably it relates to the Tube.
mister_tmg 30th Aug 2023		78 RPM Johnny Brandon - Tomorrow / High As A Mountain (1954)	Bob Geraldson was a pseudonym for Johnny Brandon.
mister_tmg 14th Aug 2023		78 RPM Larry Cross - Three Coins In The Fountain / If I Could Write A Song (1954)	Ah, another Billy Merrin composition published by Dave Toff. The British Library have the sheet music for this one with the date 1954. So it appears to be the correct title. The BL don't have any other recordings of the title, but they don't have everything issued by any means. However, I suspect that these Billy Merrin numbers were not recorded by anyone else other than the Embassy artists. Perhaps it was a similar scenario to the earlier Woolworths label, Crown, which I recall used a popular song on one side and an unknown song on the other, as they had bought a whole batch cheaply from the publisher.
mister_tmg 14th Aug 2023		78 RPM Penny Nicholls - Skokiaan / Aladdins Lamp (1954)	A perplexing one. The Catalog of Copyright Entries books usually list published music from this era, but no trace of this. Billy Merrin worked with Penny Nicholls as her musical director, so the song may have been intended for her - perhaps linked to a pantomime. It would be the right time of year, and she did perform in pantomimes. Oddly, the b-side of Gene Pitney's I'm Gonna Be Strong in 1964 has the same title, and was composed by a Merrin, but it seems an odd choice for a Brill Building-type singer. Billy Merrin's birth name was William Herbert Merrin. The publisher appears to be Dave Toff Music.
mister_tmg 12th Aug 2023		78 RPM The Dave Clark Five - Can't You See That She's Mine / Because (1964)	One side is here https://www.popsike.com/VERY-RARE-DAVE-CLARK-FIVE-78-rpm-INDIAN-EX-cond/190445445496.html
mister_tmg 11th Aug 2023		78 RPM Cliff Richard And The Shadows - The Time In Between / Look Before You Love (1965)	Currently on eBay https://tinyurl.com/2uy3ks9a
mister_tmg 20th Jul 2023		78 RPM Steve Conway - Chez Moi / With All My Heart And Soul (1951)	Sadly, Steve’s last 78 before his premature death.
mister_tmg 3rd Jul 2023		78 RPM Frankie Laine - Hell Hath No Fury / I Heard The Angels Singing (1956)	Just one week on the NME chart, and the song didn't reach the sheet music charts, so perhaps its popularity was confined to the Frankie Laine version, aided by the film it came from?
mister_tmg 28th Jun 2023		78 RPM Casani Club Orchestra - It's Love Again Part 1 / It's Love Again Part 2 (1936)	@Whyperion This was a cover of music from the film, not used in the film itself. It was common practice at the time to issue these cover versions.
mister_tmg 26th Jun 2023		78 RPM Ambrose - The Singing Hills / When Our Dreams Grow Old (1940)	B-side also issued on Decca F7551, but coupled with Santa Lucia (Jack Cooper vocal).
mister_tmg 26th Jun 2023		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Have You Forgotten So Soon? / Just A Few Angry Words (1936)	No. This 78 is a Vera Lynn solo release. It was seemingly common for dance band singers to have solo versions issued of songs which they had also recorded with dance bands. There's other Vera Lynn songs for which both vocal refrain and solo versions exist. Anne Shelton did Kiss the Boys Goodbye with Ambrose and as a solo release.

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