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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Scratchy45 20th Jan 2017		78 RPM Foster And Moore - Springtime Is Here / The Isle Of Capri	The Michael Thomas website lists "Cavan O'Connor"for this 78 in the Actual Artists column.
Scratchy45 6th Jan 2017		78 RPM Ray Price - Release Me / I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) (1954)	Please, release this song from its 1967 incarnation (as known in the UK at any rate), and turn the clock back to 1954. [YouTube Video]
Scratchy45 27th Nov 2016		78 RPM Browning Mummery - Nellie Dean / The Mountains O' Mourne (1923)	To muddy things further: (1) the Herbert Payne listed as the other singer for the other 78 with these matrix numbers appears to be a pseudonym of Ernest Pike. This one of those relatively rare instances I'd be prepared to trust wikipedia to some extent. (2) However, "Browning Mummery" could conceivably be the tenor Joseph Browning Mummery, who appears to have recorded with Joseph omitted from his name.
Scratchy45 22nd Nov 2016		78 RPM Glenn Miller - Starlit Hour / A Million Dreams Ago (1946)	Needs a release date please, if someone has access to that information.
Scratchy45 22nd Nov 2016		78 RPM Glenn Miller - My Isle Of Golden Dreams / Ciri-Biri-Bin (1944)	Label scans and Ciri-Biri-Bin composer name added.
Scratchy45 21st Nov 2016		78 RPM Benny Goodman - The 1946 Super Rhythm-Style Series, No. 37 & 38 (1946)	Added unstickered labels without NCB rights attribution, and with runout matrix variations. Side 1: 4 at 12 o'clock-ish, A at 3 o'clock-ish, I at 9 o'clock-ish Side 2: 1 at 12 o'clock-ish, C at 3 o'clock-ish, I at 9 o'clock-ish
Scratchy45 28th Aug 2016		78 RPM Billy Cotton - Doo Dee Doo / Tiddley Winkie Woo (1949)	It was tough work for Tin Pan Alley songwriters to come up with incisive song titles, but somebody had to do it......
Scratchy45 24th Aug 2016		78 RPM Band Of H.M. Welsh Guards - Songs By The Camp Fireside Part 1 / Songs By The Camp Fireside Part 2 (1931)	Medley song lists in notes are punctuated and capitalised as per the label (should anyone think either are eccentric).
Scratchy45 10th Aug 2016		78 RPM Doreen With Gordon's Group - My Favourite Things "Sound Of Music" / Polly Flinders (1966)	Label images added.
Scratchy45 22nd Mar 2016		78 RPM Theodore Chaliapine - Очи Черныя (Black Eyes) / Узнинъ (The Prisoner) (1938)	Scans added (tweaked to aid legibility). The Russian titles are given on the record before the English ones but I can't enter them to my satisfaction.Could someone help, please? (Mod.: done) (Scratchy45: Thanks - Greek text I'm reasonably comfortable with, Cyrillic very much less so.)
Scratchy45 21st Mar 2016		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Swing Music 1942 Series No. 513 & 514 (1942)	Surely there must be a contemporary HMV catalogue or series list to refer to somewhere?
Scratchy45 21st Mar 2016		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Swing Music 1942 Series No. 513 & 514 (1942)	Sorry! I was taking the track differences as a given and focusing on the year and series numbers. ("The _only_ difference? Aren't there two completely different sets of tracks on both records?")
Scratchy45 20th Mar 2016		78 RPM Roy Fox - Was That The Human Thing To Do? / She Didn't Say "Yes" (1932)	Scans added show "Fabriqué en Angleterre" : could this perhaps be an export issue? I see there are some other Decca issues around this time with the same text - e.g. F.2798.
Scratchy45 20th Mar 2016		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Swing Music 1942 Series No. 513 & 514 (1942)	Both 514 sides are also pictured on this site. the only difference are the 1942/3 dates.
Scratchy45 20th Mar 2016		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Swing Music 1942 Series No. 513 & 514 (1942)	"Is this really SMS no. 513 & 514?" (lorangrecords). Only 18 months later... label scans added to confirm it is really "what's on the label".
Scratchy45 20th Mar 2016		78 RPM Al Benny's Broadway Boys - Tip-Toe Through The Tulips With Me / Painting The Clouds With Sunshine (1929)	On adding this I see the square located top centre has a music publisher logo incorporated into the label design. I also see it on many Broadcast Twelve Super and and Super Dance releases here, as well as Broadcast after a certain (later) date - replacing the globe. My curiosity has been piqued - can anyone enlighten me about this ? (EDIT: Looking elsewhere I'm reminded music publisher logos in a square are not uncommon; e.g. Decca. I'm just surprised to see the label logo so radically altered.)
Scratchy45 18th Mar 2016		78 RPM Theodore Bikel - Le Caisser / Actualités (1954)	I'd never consciously been aware of Theodore Bikel before coming across this 78 but after reading his bio I'm not quite sure how.
Scratchy45 18th Mar 2016		78 RPM Mr. Hector Grant - I Love A Lassie (1906)	Thanks for adding the date, scrough. I guessed there might be problems with aliases/pseudonyms.
Scratchy45 16th Mar 2016		78 RPM Mr. Hector Grant - I Love A Lassie (1906)	I understand this to be the Australian Peter Dawson - performing under the Hector Grant alias he used when performing the repertoire of Harry Lauder. Possibly Hector Grant should be linked to the main Peter Dawson entry - though that would be quite a job considering his many other aliases/pseudonyms, as listed here. If anyone can date this recording I would be grateful.
Scratchy45 30th Mar 2013		78 RPM Louis Armstrong - It's All In The Game / When It's Sleepy Time Down South (1952)	Thanks for the info PhilMH . I was aware the matrix numbers don't potentially mean much more than what you say. The only discography mention I can find lists sides as per the entry above in the order I've used. I can't find out which take this as I can't play this or any other 78 at the moment. If I see something like this in the local charity shop I'd prefer to give it a home before it gets broken by the browsers (the most likely fate in the shop where I found it).
Scratchy45 30th Mar 2013		78 RPM Louis Armstrong - It's All In The Game / When It's Sleepy Time Down South (1952)	I went by the matrix numbers for A/B or Side1/Side2 when adding this, though I see on 45cat the US 45 rpm release has those same numbers but with the songs in the reverse order. Looking elsewhere I see that Louis Amstrong recorded "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" many, many times. [On the US 45rpm, the "Sleepy Time Down South" side is marked as the B side with a star behind the matrix number. So you entered the songs here in the correct order. Mod.]
Scratchy45 21st Mar 2013		78 RPM Artiphon-Streichorchester - Menuett Und Barcarole Aus Der Oper "Hoffmanns Erzählungen" / Intermezzo Aus Der Oper "Cavalleria Rusticana"	Austrian/German? German and with an early version of the label art, though this particular 78 is not in the downloadable discography I found elsewhere.
Scratchy45 6th Mar 2013		78 RPM Herman Wasserman - Prelude In G Minor / Hedge Rose (1929)	"smart label design": Definitely - an image from another 78 on this label positively jumped out at me from the "latest added" list I was browsing this morning. However, this nice piece of graphic design didn't help the label survive beyond 1930, despite the upbeat ad reproduced at the foot of the page here - it can't have been quite the "record year" promised. More about the company in the bio of Jay Wilbur, musical director of Dominion.
Scratchy45 2nd Mar 2013		78 RPM Bourneville Pensioners' Male Voice Choir - ?	Sorry - the handwritten label seems to have it in the singular - so it should be "whatever's scrawled on the label" in this case. Can't see either making a lot of difference as it's a recording studio's one-off,
Scratchy45 1st Mar 2013		78 RPM Kirk Stevens - Bonnie Gallowa' / Scotland The Brave (1955)	Funny where a web search can take you - I wasn't really aware of Wally Stott's colourful career before, though the name seemed very familiar.
Scratchy45 1st Mar 2013		78 RPM Bourneville Pensioners' Male Voice Choir - ?	I guess it's something very early in the timeline this studio seems to have operated (see here) - or here- 45s only. It actually has "Bourneville Pensioner Male Voice Choir" on the handwritten part of the label so maybe something to do with the Bournville Trust (set up provide housing and other facilities for both locals and Cadbury's Bourneville Factory workers). Artist name change requested.
Scratchy45 24th Feb 2013		78 RPM The International Radio Orchestra - Tanks In Action / Air Raid Havoc (1940)	Film incidental music, library music or similar - have a look here or here for a note on the label. What's in the grooves may be of interest to the person who runs the first site, judging by the "wanted" page.
Scratchy45 24th Feb 2013		78 RPM Gracie Fields - He's Dead (1941)	In my dad's 78 collection too - but the catalogue number and the Hitler/Goering references on the B-side make me think this one of "aspidistra's" later bloomings - 1941 rather than 1938. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
Scratchy45 17th Feb 2013		78 RPM Jay Whidden And His New Midnight Follies Band - Chinese Moon / Moonlight On The Ganges (1926)	"There were quite a few "78's" which were designated to play at 80. I never quite saw the point" I'd imagine it was treated like most consumer advice - if it was even noticed.
Scratchy45 13th Feb 2013		78 RPM Marek Weber - "Tales Of Hoffman" (1930)	I very much doubt that this would be part of a set of the complete opera, so I think here "potpourri" would be a selection or an arrangement of extracts - think "medley" in other musical forms. Someone with more knowledge of musical terms/forms could give a better overview. From what I can make out, Marek Weber worked in what used to be called light entertainment rather than the classical field - a cafe orchestra or dance band playing arrangements from the classical repertoire for a popular audience, so I doubt that potpourri is being used in a strict formal way to describe an overture form.

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