78 RPM - Comments by RadnaNotions

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RadnaNotions 28th Sep 2013		78 RPM Henry Hall - Teddy Bears' Picnic / Hush Hush Hush, Here Comes The Bogey Man (1942)	Absolutely. Although recession and mass unemployment in the thirties were ultimately why people weren't buying records. And to be clear, all this is why you don't see many of the Henry Hall discs. It was just bad timing on his part to take over when he did.
RadnaNotions 27th Sep 2013		78 RPM Henry Hall - Teddy Bears' Picnic / Hush Hush Hush, Here Comes The Bogey Man (1942)	Although the Great Depression started in around 1930, the real drop in record sales appears to have occurred in around 1932. You really don't see that many records from about 1933-1948. Or perhaps I should say, compared to the number of records you see from the late twenties, early thirties, and the fifties, you don't see many records from those years.
RadnaNotions 30th Aug 2013		78 RPM Choral À Coeur Joie - Marjolaine Strasbourg	Well, it's an "animated disc"... I'd guess the mirror(s) revolve with the disc and just reflect the frames of the animation that run around the red circle so that you can view them when looking from the side. As it turns you'd see the animation repeating over and over.
RadnaNotions 10th Jul 2013		78 RPM The Everly Brothers - Bird Dog / Devoted To You (1958)	As indicated, I've got this - so I'll try to do a scan of it some time fairly soon if no one else does.
RadnaNotions 1st Jul 2013		78 RPM Roy Fox - Minnie The Moocher / Kicking The Gong Around (1932)	I was going to link to someone else's (i.e. better) transfer but the others seem to have reverb on them that isn't on the disc. I think the message is drugs are bad.
RadnaNotions 29th Jun 2013		78 RPM Desi Arnaz - Mi Vida / Another Night Like This (1946)	So they really were stating the obvious... I suppose we could compare it with this. Or this contemporaneous USA one. Maybe it was an idea for a house style that they soon realized was superfluous for the main label.
RadnaNotions 28th Jun 2013		78 RPM Desi Arnaz - Mi Vida / Another Night Like This (1946)	I doubt they were just stating the obvious. Presumably - as your(?) notes suggest - it represents a series. Possibly it was an indication of high quality (price) or value for money (price). Brunswick in the UK had a "red label" series, which I'm told was priced differently. They had red labels. Although the only one that's been uploaded here so far is one of the blue Fred Astaire ones. It has an "RL" cat. no. though.
RadnaNotions 19th Jun 2013		78 RPM Mitglieder der Kapelle der Staatsoper Berlin - Op 68 : 6. Symphonie, F-dur , "Pastoral"	You can buy this from Naxos. The recording apparently dates from around 1930. This is a re-issue:- "Documentation concerning Grammophon/Polydor recordings is very sketchy. Exact recording dates are uncertain, matrix numbers are not always an accurate indicator, and Grammophon was known to reissue certain recordings in dubbed versions, with new matrix numbers. The Pastoral Symphony originally appeared as Polydor 66467/72 and Brunswick 90 189/94, and was later reissued as Polydor 95378/83. French pressings of this issue were from original stampers and bore the same matrix numbers and mechanical copyright date (1930). German pressings were dubbings, mechanical copyright 1938, and given new matrix numbers: 582/5 GO, 905/6 GS 8D, 586/90 GO"
RadnaNotions 12th Jun 2013		78 RPM The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra - The Music Goes 'Round And Around / The Broken Record (1936)	This song was written in 1935 so I don't think 1932 can be right. The FB series started around 1935 too.
RadnaNotions 3rd Jun 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major (1925)	I'll be posting a 1918 Harry Fay record to YouTube in a day or two... I should say my intention in creating a list was to give me something to measure my collection against. What I realised was that my list was never going to be complete - my collection even less so. While I think I'd like to look at the legendary Rust books (I confess I've never seen them), I don't know if I could live with knowing the true scale of the "problem".
RadnaNotions 29th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major (1925)	That page has "Behind the clouds" (1926) listed under both Percival Mackey and his Kit Cat Band and Percival Mackey Orch. (lower down) and it seems to be the same recording. I've got Thanks For The Buggy Ride from 1926 and I think it's actually credited to Percival Mackey's Band on the label, which I think was the name used on most of the twenties Columbia releases. When I started buying 78s about five or six years ago, I found that his records were usually worth a punt - there's something kind of charming about them. So when the Gramophone archive was available online (for free, as a beta) I started trying to piece together a list of his records. The October 1926 edition listed four 10" and two 12" releases and I don't think that was out of the ordinary. From somewhere I've written down the information that his band released 48 records from 1927 to 1928. Amazing. I gave up with my list pretty quickly...
RadnaNotions 28th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major (1925)	With the proviso that I know nothing... I was under the impression that Mackey took over as the band leader at the Kit-Cat Club in around 1931. I think the review of To-day I Feel So Happy in Gramophone refers to that as the first record release for that band. I have no idea how different that line-up was from this twenties band. I've a feeling TIFSH (which is one of my favourite records) is the only Mackey record I've got that was recorded electrically.
RadnaNotions 27th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey And His Kit-Cat Band - I'm Thru' With Love / To-day I Feel So Happy (1931)	To-day I Feel So Happy:- [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 27th May 2013		78 RPM Percival Mackey's Band - Maggie McGhee / The Toy Drum Major (1925)	The catalogue number would indicate 1925.
RadnaNotions 5th May 2013		78 RPM Harry Hudson's Melody Men - In The Shadows / Misery Farm (1929)	Misery Farm then:- [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 30th Apr 2013		78 RPM Jack Hylton - Jollity Farm / On Her Doorstep Last Night	As the lyric indicates, it is itself an answer song to Misery Farm. I daresay if you follow the chain for long enough you end up at Bingo-Master's Break-Out.
RadnaNotions 6th Apr 2013		78 RPM Mr. Billy Williams - Save A Little One For Me / Meet You One Dark Night (1912)	The A-side is a Fred Godfrey song and the very good Bless 'Em All: The Songs of Fred Godfrey site rather confusingly says this song was published in 1909 and then says that Billy Williams recorded six versions in 1908 and 1909. But this would be a reissue of one of those, and I don't think Coliseum started until 1912. So, I'd say 1912 is certainly more correct than 1906.
RadnaNotions 11th Mar 2013		78 RPM Symphony Orchestra - Ballet De Syliva Prelude And Pizzicato / Ballet De Syliva Intermezzo And Valse Lente (1927)	It looks like it was commonly used to denote the Marconi system, as TheJudge says. Search for "M in a circle" in this page.
RadnaNotions 10th Mar 2013		78 RPM George Formby - The Lancashire Toreador / The Window Cleaner (No.2) (Further Adventures Of The Window Cleaner) (1937)	Yes, the catalogue number would place it in 1937.
RadnaNotions 10th Mar 2013		78 RPM Eddie Cantor - Cheer Up (1931)	There was an equivalent UK Durium label that ran from 1932 to 1933. I've uploaded a couple of examples from that.
RadnaNotions 7th Mar 2013		78 RPM The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra - "Casse Noisette" Suite (1927)	I believe these would have been released about 1926-27. Columbias generally ran at 80 I think right up until the merger with HMV. Both this and 9261 have the ST tax code stamped into them, so presumably these copies are from about 20 years later - when 78 was the norm. Possibly it's a typo on the 9261 label?
RadnaNotions 6th Mar 2013		78 RPM Norman Brooks - My 3-D Sweetie / Candy Moon (1954)	My 3-D Sweetie:- [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 6th Mar 2013		78 RPM The Rosarian Dance Orchestra - My Sweet Hortense / Uncle Sambo	Could Mimosa and The Mimosa be linked - and vice versa - please.
RadnaNotions 3rd Mar 2013		78 RPM Billy Cotton - Horsey, Horsey / Maybelle, Maybelle (1937)	I have a few dates for Rex noted from back issues of Gramophone. I've got 9169 down as being reviewed in January 1938, so it seems quite likely that this is from 1937.
RadnaNotions 1st Mar 2013		78 RPM Alexander Prince - Concertina Medley Part 1 / Concertina Medley Part 2 (1924)	And he had nothing on Charlie Kunz and his bloody piano medleys...
RadnaNotions 24th Feb 2013		78 RPM Various Artists - Waldmere / I Like Little People (1909)	I posted most of the Billy Wiliiams records I've got on YouTube but I'll only inflict this... I mean link to this one here as it's my favourite. [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 24th Feb 2013		78 RPM Various Artists - Waldmere / I Like Little People (1909)	I believe this is 1909 but if anyone knows for sure...
RadnaNotions 17th Feb 2013		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Much Binding In The Marsh / Much Binding In The Marsh (1949)	I can only guess that someone who worked for John W. Gray in Scarborough decided to record the show off the radio. I bought it in a charity shop in Hull.
RadnaNotions 17th Feb 2013		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Much Binding In The Marsh / Much Binding In The Marsh (1949)	I really don't know what this is. But you can hear a bit of it here. [YouTube Video]
RadnaNotions 16th Feb 2013		78 RPM Durium Dance Band With Carson Robison And His Pioneers - Ev'rybody's Going But Me / Get Away Old Man (1932)	Although I think they were both connected to the Italian Durium label, I don't think this label (which ran 1932-33) had anything to do with the later UK Durium label. These records are cardboard coated in a material I think was actually known as Durium. Generally they play quite well. Unless someone has folded them. Despite the billing on this one, I think this is simply Carson Robison and His Pioneers, recorded in London. [YouTube Video]

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