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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 17th Oct 2015		78 RPM Lonnie Donegan And His Skiffle Group - Cumberland Gap / Love Is Strange (1957)	Just how "strange" is "love" that so many versions have emerged of this song, ay? Donegan must've heard the Mickey & Sylvia version and it prompted him to record his own skiffle-ised "take" on this song.
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		78 RPM Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) / Oh I Apologize (1959)	I think the year is a bit out. Try 1959 for size! It was Shop Around by The Miracles that took the Tamla label to national distribution later that same year.
Neil Forbes 14th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	Yep, Pop the fluid in me, Louie! Just as well I did have a listen or I'd have missed it too.
Neil Forbes 14th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	Not long after logging out, I fired up my turntable for recording 78s, and recorded first "Dig"(the B-side), somewhat ordinary as tracks go, nothing much to "write home" about! Then, on spec, I put on the A-side, just to listen to it, initially, I got a surprise when I heard a verse in the song that had been edited out of the track that appears on the K-Tel Looney Tunes LP. The verse goes: Rollin' down a hill on a rainy day, When you see me comin', better start to pray! I'm cuttin' up the road and I'm the boss all the way! Transfusion, transfusion, oh Doc, pardon me for this crazy intrusion! Never, never, never gonna speed again, Pop the fluid in me Louie! What gets me is why K-Tel cut that verse out when the song, in total clocks in at 2 minutes 23 seconds(the time I got after trimming down). There was no need to cut the verse out at all! I note also, Mod has added the linked releases! Cheers!.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	Oh, well yeah! We were a tad slow on the uptake, RC!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	In 1956, RC?... Rock & Roll started in 1953 with Jackie Brenston's "*Rocket 88", then came Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock*" in 1954!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	"Be zorch, daddy-o, go Ape".... A pteradactyle was a flyin' fool, just a breeze-flappin' daddy of the old school, but a Mama-Dactyle could sure make him drool...." But as for this one... "Barnyard drivers are found in two classes, line-crowding hogs and speeding jack-asses...." Ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	@RC Oh I dunno! I got a good laugh out of it the first time I heard it on that Looney Tunes LP, and the other one, Ape Call(doodliyabba!) cracked me up as well! *Slip the blood to me, Bud!* ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig (1956)	Like I said in the Comments, this exists in a New Zealand issue(I checked before posting, but until I uploaded this, there was no Australian version. I bought this for the princely sum of $8.00(Australian currency) from Rices in Newcastle(NSW) last Sunday. I already had the A-side on a K-Tel compilation so I bought this for its B-side. When I get a moment, I'll copy it(the B-side, that is) to MP3 and add it to my "Nonsense Songs" file.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals (1932)	er.... right! (LOEL = laugh out extra loud!)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals (1932)	Who ya callin' "Old"? Sonny! (ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals (1932)	Re: this label -"That's a shocker, Barry Crocker!"(What would he think of his name rhyming with "Shocker"?)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals (1932)	...Before anyone takes me to task about my remark on the Brunswicks, yes, I've noted the clear, well-defined labels displayed on this page of 45worlds, but the ones I've seen and actually held in my hands to attempt to read the labels..... The labels had faded to such a degree that hey were nearly all black with just a feint trace of where the print was.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals (1932)	Whooooh! This one's been through the grinder a few times! I thought those old Brunswicks were hard to read(badly faded) but this one takes the cake for total annihilation of any legible print.
Neil Forbes 7th Oct 2015		78 RPM Cicely Courtneidge - When It's Milking Time In Switzerland (1st Record) / When It's Milking Time In Switzerland (2nd Record) (1931)	Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born, held role of "Mum" in first series of "On The Buses". Doris Hare took over that role from the second series onward.
Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Pat-A-Cake / Ride A Cock Horse (1962)	Apart from the toy gramophones for which these were made, you'd only ever play these on manual record players WITHOUT the auto shut-off mechanism, such as the HMV "Minigram", for instance. Not that you'd really want to, unless your 5-year-old child was pestering you. These would not work on any auto-changers as their diameter was too small at nominally 5 inches(though closer to 6 inches in practice), the arm would drop too far out from the edge, and the auto-return mechanism might trigger prematurely, even though the labels were about the same diameter as regular 10-inch shellacs.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año (1964)	Just remember to clear the spaghetti off before attempting to read the label, ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año (1964)	For LPs on CBS, Orange was regular popular content while blue was reserved for classical recordings. I don't think they ever used green. In the USA, red was the main colour for popular music, followed later(around 1972) by gold. I've not seen many American Columbia classical LPs so I wouldn't know what colour those labels were.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Don Lang - The Bird On My Head / Hey Daddy (1958)	A-side composer, Bagdasarian? Think... David Seville! Got it?
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año (1964)	I was going by the Magic Notes trademark, which American CBS had long ago abandoned in favour of their "Speaker on Stand" otherwise described as "walking eye" or, as Fixbutte once suggested, stylus on record(you'd have to turn the trademark 180 degrees to see that). But I've always believed South American Columbia to be affiliated with EMI.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año (1964)	CBS in the USA ceased using the Magic Notes logo many years before, when the original Columbia Graphophone Company of New York was liquidated(wound up). The trademark lived on in Britain where what had started merely as a UK division, became the parent company because of the demise of the US company. The Hispanic wing, Discos Columbia, would be an offshoot of EMI rather than CBS, as CBS no longer had any stake in EMI whatsoever by 1964. The only reason CBS in the USA would be making this disc, is under contract for an unrelated client.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That (1957)	He was in Carry On Jack(also titled Carry On Venus) alongside Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills, and there was also an appearance by Australian Ed Devereaux.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That (1957)	Well I am AMAZED! I have a number of his appearances in the Carry-On series, who could forget his role as Marshall P. Nutt(love that name, play on a brand of peanuts) in "Carry On Cowboy", and now to learn he wrote "Georgie Girl" for The Seekers... mind-blowing revelation!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - Feet Up / Angels Cry (When Sweethearts Tell A Lie) (1952)	Vacuum is right! Considering this was the type of "pop" music on offer, it's no wonder Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll had such an easy time of it, getting started, in spite of church-led bigotry of the day. Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll virtually had a "walk-up start" because these new-ish genres had no competition. Country & Western was struggling to overcome its "Hillbilly" image in the 1950s and it wasn't until the late 1960s, the 1970s and into the 1980s that Country music was taken seriously, that is until that idiot, Billy Ray Cyrus recorded "Achy-Breaky Heart" and set Country Music back 60 years. No, this Guy Mitchell record showed just how vacuous "Pop" music was through the 1940s and early 1950s. The new technology of vinyl 45rpm was wasted on records like this(this was issued on 45, albeit with a different B-side).
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That (1957)	@RC, Did he? I'm trying to work out if it's the same Jim Dale who made his debut in the Carry-On movies, playing an expectant father in "Carry On Cabbie".
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That (1957)	I think this might be the missing Jim Dale record I was looking for. If this is the same Jim Dale, he went on to do several of the Carry-On movies after his singing career folded.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jerry Bruno With The Playmates - Tubby The Tuba / Billy Boy (1962)	I think I might've spotted one or two of these at Rices in Newcastle(Australia). Wild design, ay? Definitely psychedelic! Pity the music wouldn't match up.
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		78 RPM The King Brothers - Rockin' Shoes / In The Middle Of An Island (1957)	There was another Parlophone 78 that featured Jim Dale(future Carry-On actor, at the time he made it) but it seems to have been deleted.
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		78 RPM The King Brothers - Rockin' Shoes / In The Middle Of An Island (1957)	@RC, you need to slo-o-o-o-ow do-o-o-o-own or you'll get dizzy(Cue Tommy Roe...) ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		78 RPM The King Brothers - Rockin' Shoes / In The Middle Of An Island (1957)	@xiphophilos(that's a mouthful!) It conflicts in a way that simply proves my theory was wrong, but I have already admitted as much in my comment of just over 12 hours ago. I was simply amazed to see a pre-1958 issue with "Recording First Published..." printed thereon, assuming perhaps that the 45rpm version also carries "Recording First Published 1957". That's what I really liked about British records. Australian records never had this detail at all through the 1950s and 1960s. Not until the early 1970s did we start to see the encircled 'P' with the year after it, and even then not all labels carried it.

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