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mojofilter 23rd Oct 2024		78 RPM Lester Williams - Let Me Tell You A Thing Or Two / Tryin' To Forget (1952)	[YouTube Video]
mojofilter 14th May 2024		78 RPM Eddie Dean - I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven / Stealing (1955)	Thank you for that information! I'm not sure about changing the title. The song is copyrighted and listed worldwide as "I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven." I entered the other title in Google, and scrolled through 20 pages and did not see a listing for the "I Dreamed I Was In" title. This pressing seems to be an anomaly.
mojofilter 13th May 2024		78 RPM Eddie Dean - I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven / Stealing (1955)	I added a label where the title and the artist are entered differently. I'd never seen one like it before!
mojofilter 27th Jan 2023		78 RPM Spike Jones And His City Slickers - The Nutcracker (1945)	Added album covers.
mojofilter 1st Jan 2023		78 RPM Ray Charles - Ain't That Love / I Want To Know (1957)	I just digitized this record, and there's a typo on the Side 2 label. It runs 2:08, not 3:08.
mojofilter 23rd Dec 2022		78 RPM Roscoe Gordon - What You Got On Your Mind / Two Kind Of Women (1952)	The A-side is a fairly competent boogie number, but the B-side is a shambles. It sounds like an inebriated jam on a slow blues where nobody knows where the downbeat is or how to count measures.
mojofilter 21st Nov 2022		78 RPM Dinah Shore - Anniversary Song / Heartaches, Sadness And Tears (1947)	[YouTube Video]
mojofilter 21st Nov 2022		78 RPM Dinah Shore - I've Got You Under My Skin / Dixie (1947)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
mojofilter 21st Nov 2022		78 RPM Dinah Shore - I've Got You Under My Skin / Dixie (1947)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
mojofilter 20th Nov 2022		78 RPM Dorothy Shay - The Sample Song / Two-Gun Harry From Tucumcari (1948)	The Sample Song [YouTube Video] Two-Gun Harry From Tucumcari [YouTube Video]
mojofilter 24th Dec 2021		78 RPM Pat Boone - April Love / When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano (1957)	Despite what it says on the label, "April Love" was the A-side of this record and his big hit that went to #1.
mojofilter 22nd Dec 2021		78 RPM Tab Hunter - Young Love / Red Sails In The Sunset (1957)	If you'll please go to the link in my first post, you can see it on Quality, and much of this confusion can be cleared up. At some point between 15553 and 15537, the business deal was made to stop issuing Dot records on Quality and putting them on the Dot label in Canada. Dominion was a mom-and-pop operation that didn't have the kind of money to license hit records from the States. They recorded generally unknown artists doing square dances and polkas. We don't have any examples on the site of any of their pressings after 1951.
mojofilter 22nd Dec 2021		78 RPM Tab Hunter - Young Love / Red Sails In The Sunset (1957)	No, at that time, Dot records were being issued in Canada on Quality. This one was Quality 1587.
mojofilter 22nd Dec 2021		78 RPM Tab Hunter - Young Love / Red Sails In The Sunset (1957)	Are you absolutely sure that this record was released in Canada on the Dominion label? Its Dot catalogue number was 15553, and its matrix numbers were MB-9452 and 9453. It was released in Canada on Quality 1587 with the same Dot matrix numbers, and "By Arr. Dot Records" text. See it here at discogs. I'm dubious about its existence on Dominion. There aren't any images of such a record or any references to it besides this one on the whole internet.
mojofilter 25th Apr 2021		78 RPM Jack Scott - My True Love / Leroy (1958)	Holy cow! Mr. Warped, did you find the record like that, or did Scott sign it for you?
mojofilter 24th Apr 2021		78 RPM Bing Crosby - The Whistler's Mother-In-Law / I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me) (1941)	1941's "I Ain't Got Nobody" is part of the medley with "Just A Gigolo" first devised by Louis Prima in 1956, which was covered on the 12" EP "Crazy From The Heat" by David Lee Roth, whose version reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985.
mojofilter 12th Sep 2020		78 RPM Frankie Yankovic And His Yanks With The Marlin Sisters - Charlie Was A Boxer / Blue Skirt Waltz (1949)	The site deleted my first comment from January of 2013, when I said I had known this song my whole life, and liked "Charlie Was A Boxer" more than "Blue Skirt Waltz" even though that was "our song" for a lot of couples.
mojofilter 12th Sep 2020		78 RPM Frankie Yankovic And His Yanks With The Marlin Sisters - Charlie Was A Boxer / Blue Skirt Waltz (1949)	It's seven and a half years since I made my initial comment. I've just listened to "Charlie Was A Boxer" again, and I still love it as much as I ever did. Man, those people were on it.
mojofilter 29th Jan 2020		78 RPM The Cotton Pickers - My Sweetie Went Away / Duck's Quack (1923)	The video of the B-side showing "Duck's Quack" playing from an album of 78 transfers of records by The Cotton Pickers is an entirely different performance of the song that's on the record I have. It's pretty close, perhaps even recorded the same day, but definitely an alternate take.
mojofilter 30th Jan 2018		78 RPM Frank Sinatra - People Will Say We're In Love / Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (1943)	This was Frank Sinatra's first record for Columbia. Both sides were recorded August 5, 1943, with accompaniment by The Bobby Tucker Singers. There are no musicians on this record because at the time of recording, the American Federation of Musicians was on strike against the record labels, and no instrumentalists were allowed to make recordings. Source: the booklet included in the CD Sinatra Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein, written by Will Friedland.
mojofilter 18th Dec 2016		78 RPM Weary Willie - A Gay Cabellero / How T Make Love (1929)	Here is a link to a Canadian issue licensed from the Plaza Music group, of "A Gay Caballero" as attributed to Buddy Bartlett, who is also actually Frank Luther. I wonder if the two records have the same recording, or whether they were done at different times.
mojofilter 5th Oct 2016		78 RPM Arturo Toscanini And The NBC Symphony Orchestra - William Tell (1939)	I have this set and will add the missing record to it reasonably soon.
mojofilter 29th Sep 2016		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Holiday Ranch Theme Song / The Hilly Billy Band	Quoting the entire Wikipedia article on it: "Holiday Ranch was a Canadian television variety series airing on the CBC from 1953 to 1958. The show initially aired on weeknights then moved to a weekly Saturday night schedule before Hockey Night in Canada. The set of the series was a ranch house and the plot featured a set of regulars who visited the ranch each week. The production cost was approximately $5000 per episode. The show was considered among the most popular in 1950s Canadian television." Gordon V. Thompson was the largest music publisher in Canada, not really known for having been in the recording business. This record must have been a "by popular demand" type of issue, as the program was so popular.
mojofilter 8th Sep 2016		78 RPM The Virtues - Guitar Boogie Shuffle / Guitar In Orbit (1959)	Here is a link to the 45 RPM issue of this record.
mojofilter 8th Sep 2016		78 RPM Buchanan And Goodman - Flying Saucer The 2nd / Martian Melody (1957)	Here is a link to the 45 RPM issue of this record.
mojofilter 7th Sep 2016		78 RPM Alberta Slim With Evan Kemp And The Trail Riders - The Laughing Horse / Hold Whatcha Got Boys (Don't Let Her Go) (1956)	If, as with all other Sparton labels, the month and year of release are printed on the labels, shouldn't this one be corrected to June 1956? [corrected from 1957 to June 1956, as requested. Mod.]
mojofilter 6th Sep 2016		78 RPM Bill Long And The Mainstreeters - Across The Wires / You Are My Sunshine (1955)	Release date added as printed on the labels.
mojofilter 24th Aug 2016		78 RPM Imperial Orchestra - Martha Overture, Part 1 / Martha Overture, Part 2 (1912)	Thank you for the excellent extra research you did. See the tear in the yellow paper label by the center hole in the A-side scan? That looks like this is a paste-over, with another label underneath. Arrow records were also issued with red labels. I wonder what's on the other one...
mojofilter 24th Aug 2016		78 RPM Imperial Orchestra - Martha Overture, Part 1 / Martha Overture, Part 2 (1912)	What scant information on this label there is on the web indicates that it existed between 1913 and 1916 as a part of the Carl Lindstrom group of labels. This one seemed to be in the business of reissuing Beka masters, often at a much later date. Their catalogue numbers run between A1 and approximately A224. This record was previously issued on Beka 521, and the actual artists were the Empire Military Band (source). Unfortunately, there is no Beka 521 on the site yet, so it is near impossible to say for sure when either it, or this Arrow disc were issued. Being so close to the beginning of the series, one could likely accurately assume that it was 1913.
mojofilter 26th Jul 2016		78 RPM Kay Kyser - Woody Wood-Pecker / When Veronica Plays The Harmonica (1948)	I used to have a link here to a re-edited version of this record to correct where Harry Babbitt came in on the wrong beat of the measure at the end, but the website where it was hosted no longer exists. If anyone is interested in hearing how it could have sounded it they'd had tape to record on and could have edited it themselves, please feel free to PM me.

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