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old record nut 21st Dec 2024		78 RPM Anton Karas - "The Third Man" Theme / The Cafe Mozart Waltz (1950)	Man am I confused. My copy is just like the dark blue ones (420823 & 4) but the number on the label is (DR.14268) for side 1 and stamped in the run out is D-DDR 14059-1A, The other side (DR.14269) & D-DDR 14060-1A.
old record nut 21st Dec 2024		78 RPM Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - Easter Parade / Always (1947)	S 1 A smooth cover of the Harry James hit from the war years but Guy didn't get it on the BB chart.
old record nut 21st Dec 2024		78 RPM Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - There's A Lovely Lake In Loveland / The Wedding Samba (1950)	The Wedding Samba was the hit in March 1950 making #28 on BB
old record nut 21st Dec 2024		78 RPM Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) / Rain Or Shine (1949)	Enjoy Yourself Entered BB Jan. '50 made #10
old record nut 21st Dec 2024		78 RPM Gary, Phillip, Dennis, Lindsay And Bing Crosby - A Crosby Christmas (1950)	I think this record is made as a sampler for the album. It is short parts of the songs. My copy is a Decca Deccalite dark red label with all the same numbers.
old record nut 26th Aug 2023		78 RPM Joe Morris - Lowe Groovin' / Jump With Me (1948)	I'm guessing Jackson Lowe was a DJ that played blues in D.C..
old record nut 2nd Apr 2023		78 RPM Jimmy Liggins And His Drops Of Joy - Cadillac Boogie / Tear Drop Blues (1948)	It's the Cadillac boogie....."gals 'll start jumpin' , your money b' green" !
old record nut 25th May 2021		78 RPM Georgia Gibbs - I Still Feel The Same About You / Get Out Those Old Records (1950)	Her Nibs sings with Georgia Gibbs was on the label because she is overdubing the vocal like a duet Her nickname is"Her Nibs Miss Gibbs".Side A made #18 on the BB pop chart 1/13/51.
old record nut 10th Apr 2020		78 RPM Richard Hayes - Once / Out In The Cold Again (1951)	A side or not, it's no wonder "Once" was not the popular side, it's so "old-fashioned" even for '51. The radio jocks (announcers) picked the hep side to play and in these days every record store had booths so you could try before you buy and the record cats reported to BB and others what people were asking for. Glen Gray had the '35 hit of "Out In The Cold", went to #4 BB.
old record nut 7th Aug 2019		78 RPM Lonnie Donegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight?) / Aunt Rhody (The Old Grey Goose) (1959)	There are two things I would like to add to the discussion, First 78s were out of favor in the U.S. by 1957 and production by around '58. The 45 was king from '56 on. Also, in the last years of the 78 most were made of an unbreakable plastic and improved fidelity but the heavy-handed (or should I say heavy- armed) players were no match for the new high fidelity players.
old record nut 15th May 2019		78 RPM Gene Autry - Gene Autry's Western Classics (1947)	This is when an album was really an album.It's interesting to see that Columbia had surrendered to the RCA album format in 1951 with a 45 rpm album.
old record nut 11th May 2019		78 RPM Frankie Laine And Jo Stafford - Hambone / Let's Have A Party (1952)	Correction, Hambore hit in 1952 not as I stated on the entry.