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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH 15th Sep 2015		78 RPM The Franz Winkler Trio - Weit Über Dem Meere / Die Alte Schmiede (1949)	Is this really an "Export Issue" to some unknown country, or a common-or-garden Made-In-England-For US-Issue of recordings that would have been on Decca in UK/Europe?
PhilMH 26th Feb 2015		78 RPM Jack Hylton - Paradise / Dream Sweetheart (1932)	Both sides recorded 1932, released on Decca F 3030 in UK, so probably safe to assume this Oz release was in 1932.
PhilMH 31st Jan 2015		78 RPM Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode / Around And Around (1958)	Hip-O Select's 4 CD set of Chuck's complete 1950's recordings says April 1958 for this. I am inclined to think that they are going by the BILLBOARD date, but if that April 7th issue came out several days before the cover date (which I think is normal for BB), then that makes an April release a bit less likely.
PhilMH 15th Jan 2015		78 RPM The Ward Singers - This Little Light Of Mine / Just A Little While (1951)	I don't have the record, but the Hayes/Laughton Gospel Discography published by Record Information Services has this as "(Multi-track) Vocal with unknown acc.", recorded NYC [probably actually Newark] 16 May 1952, which means that the year needs to be changed for this.
PhilMH 14th Jan 2015		78 RPM Paul Williams Sextette - Hastings St. Bounce / Way Late (1947)	Not at all too soon, as Muddy Waters made his first recordings in 1946, but as it happens, this isn't him, but one Alex Thomas, according to BLUES RECORDS VOL. 2 (Record Information Services).
PhilMH 21st Dec 2014		78 RPM Al Bruner And The Spellbinders - Why / Water Wonderland	HI, it's D L E, for Don Large Enterprises.
PhilMH 20th Dec 2014		78 RPM Bing Crosby - It's Easy To Remember / Swanee River (1935)	This is only a guess, but could the "Fabrique En Angleterre" version actually have been for release in France (and maybe Belgium?) and so could/should have its own entry?
PhilMH 17th Dec 2014		78 RPM Sam Browne - A Tree In The Meadow / An Old Sombrero (1948)	Oops, my bad, should have checked in the UK London page before I posted before! I wonder what the reason for switching from blue to black actually was? Possibly an intent to have different colours for different territories, as the first Australian Londons from 1950 were maroon (a few shades of them, going by the Australian London page here, just as there seem to be different shades of blue for the US labels, and the US r&b and country series were green). Anyway, I'm still sure about the absence of publishers on the US releases. (I think).
PhilMH 17th Dec 2014		78 RPM Sam Browne - A Tree In The Meadow / An Old Sombrero (1948)	Also:: The London label wasn't launched in the UK until 1949, with the first number being L 500, Al Morgan's "Jealous Heart" in November (though the first one actually released was L. 501, The Jack Jeter Trio's "Johnson Rag" in October), so anything before October 1949 with a number lower than 500 is not a UK release. And: Any UK or European (and the occasional southern African!) artist on London would have to have been released in the Americas, Japan, The Philippines, and possibly other Far Eastern countries, all places where British Decca didn't own the Decca name after WW2. Decca did export to Europe, Africa and Asia, but they could use the Decca label for the aforesaid artists. They did also export London (-American) releases later, but I don't know whether or not they exported any pre-HL series Londons to non-American destinations.
PhilMH 17th Dec 2014		78 RPM Sam Browne - A Tree In The Meadow / An Old Sombrero (1948)	A couple of other distinguishing features I've noticed about the Londons: the UK releases had black labels and publishers logos, whilst the North American ones had blue labels and no publishing info. I'm puzzled about how it all worked as well - I know that Decca had a second factory close to Southampton Docks in southern England (the main factory being at New Malden in Surrey, about nine miles south of central London), and apparently this is where most, if not all, of these pressings emanated from, but whether they were initially all pressed there as a matter of course, or (maybe later) used to supplement US pressings in the event of a big hit, I'm not sure. soultwinz's comment suggests that the former theory might apply here - this was only a few months after the company's US launch, after all - and maybe there were no US pressings made.
PhilMH 16th Dec 2014		78 RPM Sam Browne - A Tree In The Meadow / An Old Sombrero (1948)	Hi soultwinz, this is a US release that was made in England, as were many US London releases going right up to the 1960's (some pressings of Rolling Stones albums) and I think beyond (classical albums).
PhilMH 15th Dec 2014		78 RPM Ruth Brown - Mom Oh Mom / I Want To Be Loved (1957)	B-side from another record has been uploaded instead of this record's A-side!
PhilMH 12th Dec 2014		78 RPM Lighthouse All Stars - Big Boy (Part 1) / Big Boy (Concl.) (1953)	Did Decca make any London records exclusively for Canada? I tend to think that would be the case with this one, because surely Decca wouldn't have been contractually allowed to export it to the USA, unless they had actually purchased the master from Skylark for some reason.
PhilMH 11th Dec 2014		78 RPM Lighthouse All Stars - Big Boy (Part 1) / Big Boy (Concl.) (1953)	Looking further in Billboard and in 45 cat suggests that Skylark was still active to at least November 1954, so that throws my last theory out! This still does look like a North American London issue, though, so maybe it was just for Canada. Possibly Central or South American countries too, as Decca also had to use the London name there, but I haven't as yet seen any evidence that Decca exported to those countries.
PhilMH 11th Dec 2014		78 RPM Lighthouse All Stars - Big Boy (Part 1) / Big Boy (Concl.) (1953)	Backtracking a little, this does seem to fit numerically into the US and Canadian London sequence of the period - see Frank Chacksfield's "Ebb Tide" from August 1953 for the label style on the Made In England stock copy. That still leaves the complication of why a US recording is being exported back to the US. Could London/Decca have purchased the Skylark label, reissuing its recordings on London for all markets?
PhilMH 11th Dec 2014		78 RPM Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never	I'm inclined to agree with Jock Girl, the later-era RCA logo makes this very dubious! If it wasn't for that, I'd probably agree with you, slholzer.
PhilMH 11th Dec 2014		78 RPM Lighthouse All Stars - Big Boy (Part 1) / Big Boy (Concl.) (1953)	Well, it certainly looks like a Decca pressing, and Paul Pelletier's London listing showed that there was a London 78 of this title issued in May 1953, catalogue number L 1168, source of recording given as Skylark. That number series didn't go any higher than 1232 in January 1954. If this is a Contemporary recording, then it would have been issued on Vogue (who Decca were pressing for, before Decca brought Vogue Records Limited outright in 1956), but this number doesn't fit into the Vogue 78's listing, which have numbers in the 2000's. Possibly the Felsted label (if it started that early?) or even an export pressing for some unknown territory? The lack of publisher informaton is very typical of UK Decca's London pressings for North America, but I doubt that a US recording would be exported back there! Suffice it to say, I'm drawing a blank too!
PhilMH 17th Nov 2014		78 RPM Josh White - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town / Hard Time Blues (1950)	I'm just wondering whether Billy Two's dark blue labels, which don't have either the publishing information or the L prefix on the catalogue number, are actually US releases (though still made in England, probably at Decca's Southampton factory), whereas the actual UK labels are the black ones with the publishers and the L?
PhilMH 15th Sep 2014		78 RPM Bill Haley And His Saddle Men - Why Do I Cry Over You? / I'm Gonna Dry Ev'ry Tear With A Kiss (1950)	Probably recorded September or October 1950 going by Michel Ruppli's Atlantic discography; this session (two other tracks are unissued, matrix 524, "Tear Drops" and 525, "Loveless Blues") is undated, but the next listed session (Al Hibbler with Billy Taylor's Orchestra, matrices 526-529) is dated October 25 1950.
PhilMH 11th Sep 2014		78 RPM Smith Jubilee Singers - I've Got To Tell It / How About You	Probably France, as D.P. on the label stands for "Domain Publique" (Public Domain). Vogue was a French company (though they operated elsewhere too), and from my admittedly limited observations, used "Vogue Productions" for licensed recordings, and "Disques Vogue" for their own recordings. Somebody please correct me if that's wrong!
PhilMH 6th Sep 2014		78 RPM Teresa Brewer - Choo'n Gum / Honky Tonkin' (1950)	Probably mid-1950 for this, as the US release charted in April of that year. I'd still like to know how Australian Record Company got the rights to London when parent label Decca was distributed by E.M.I. in Australia!
PhilMH 12th Aug 2014		78 RPM Ethel Smith And The Bando Carioca - Tico Tico / Lero Lero / Bem Te Vi Atrevido (1945)	I agree that this wouldn't have been a USA release. This would have been made in England for export to Europe, catalogue number most likely the same as UK Brunswick with BM prefix added.
PhilMH 30th Apr 2014		78 RPM The Four Aces - Three Coins In The Fountain / Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) (1954)	Well, that's very odd, because I have just received a 1953 Decca-Brunswick-London catalogue published by E.M.I. (Australia) Pty. Limited (as it then was), though it seems to be treating US Decca releases inconsistently, with for example the ANNIE GET YOUR GUN soundtrack album (Etherl Merman) on Brunswick LAT 8002, yet 78's by the Four Aces, Ethel Merman, Ella Fitzgerald, Deanna Durbin, Red Foley and others are in the Decca Y series! I'm still working through the catalogue, but I don't think there are any 78's listed on Brunswick, only albums (possibly English pressings?). I also have a 1955-56 catalogue for Decca-Brunswick-London (still listing one Four Aces 78 on Decca), but Brunswick is gone from the 1956-57 catalogue, presumably because US Decca, Brunswick and Coral had gone to Festival. It does seem strange that E.M.I. would start using Columbia in 1954 when they had previously been using Decca, while they still had the rights to the Brunswick name, which UK Decca were using for the US Decca catalogue. Just checked another name in the 1953 catalogue - Louis Armstrong, albums on Brunswick, 78's on Decca, same in the 1955-56 catalogue. I'd better see if I can track down some Aussie or NZ Columbia catalogues from 1954-57, to see if there are US Decca recordings therein.
PhilMH 29th Apr 2014		78 RPM The Four Aces - Three Coins In The Fountain / Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) (1954)	US Decca recordings on Columbia? This does not compute, Will Robinson! Didn't NZ have the Brunswick label then?
PhilMH 29th Mar 2014		78 RPM Nat "King" Cole - It Happens To Be Me / That's All (1954)	"it Happens To Be Me" was the US A-side (or the side that charted, at least); another clue is the matrix numbers, which are non-sequential, "it Happens To Be Me" has a much higher number, indicating a more recent recording, and so probably more likely to be the A-side.
PhilMH 28th Mar 2014		78 RPM The Swan Silvertone Singers - How I Got Over / Jesus Is A Friend (1954)	Added review from BILLBOARD, June 19 1954.
PhilMH 28th Mar 2014		78 RPM The Swan Silvertone Singers - How I Got Over / Jesus Is A Friend (1954)	Both sides recorded in Hollywood December 1953, so presumably early 1954 release.
PhilMH 24th Mar 2014		78 RPM Lyster And Cooke - Nearer My God To Thee And Son Of My Soul / Laughing Water (1911)	Shouldn't the label just be Zonophone? There's 168 entries there compared to two on this label page - I thought we were ignoring "Record" or "Records" for label naming purposes.
PhilMH 19th Mar 2014		78 RPM Marcel Verhoest - Kaloua / Abraham	Apart from the fact that the label name is actually Carinia (you missed the second "I"), I can't really help at all, except that I remember the label being around in the early 70's, and they were the Australian licensee for Telefunken of Germany at one point.
PhilMH 17th Mar 2014		78 RPM Al Morgan - The Place Where I Worship / Hopestar (1950)	How did Australian Record Company get the license to US London, whose parent company Decca was with Columbia Graphophone/E.M.I. (and had been since 1935?).

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