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Scratchy45 16th Aug 2021		78 RPM Will Glahé - Barbara-Barbara (Komm Mit Mir Nach Afrika) / Echo Echo (1949)	Don't know if this helps - or is even relevant, but here goes...probably belongs with UK artist release. Looking at the comments about London UK pressings, It's possible some may have originated from the then-new second Decca plant in the UK - not New Malden . I've seen a couple of references to a factory opened in Southampton about 1948 specifically for export. Southampton was a key port for transatlantic crossings. If there's any identifier on these pressings, assuming both 78s and the LPs were pressed there, I can't find any reference to it. Indeed I've failed to find very much that refers to this plant, and I can't find out where it was located(I live about 15mls away)
Scratchy45 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Monte Rey - Waiting In The Rain / Rosanna (1945)	Label scans added
Scratchy45 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Albert Sandler - Allegro / Pale Moon (1932)	Scans added. A modern performance of the Frist Kreisler song transcription on side 2 can be found on youtube.
Scratchy45 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Cyril Stapleton - Tonight (Perfidia) / Moonlight Serenade (1947)	Scans added
Scratchy45 1st Aug 2021		78 RPM Nunzio Gallo - Torre Del Mare / Vogliamoci Tanto Bene	Label scans added - but bizarrely, despite same scanner settings, same manipulation, one is much greener than the other. A more realistic colour would be somewhere in between the two.
Scratchy45 28th Jun 2021		78 RPM The Victory Trio - La Paloma / Together (1928)	Yes, stringed musical instrument. played by striking with mallets. "Zimbola"' is a bit of a movable feast as far as spelling is concerned. In the Victory 7 listing on Michael Thomas's website, he lists it as czimbalum, In this descriptive webpage it's referred to as "Cimbalom" in its Hungarian form, among other.national or ethnic variations. It all seems surprisingly cosmopolitan for Woolies.... and this recording seems surprisingly popular. Turns up again on Nos. 56, 196 and 244.
Scratchy45 14th Jun 2021		78 RPM Rotorua Maori Male Quartette - Maringa A! (I Grieve For You) / Moe Mai E Hine (A Maori Lullaby) (1957)	This one dished in a semi-corrugated way...
Scratchy45 14th Jun 2021		78 RPM Rotorua Maori Choir - E Hotu Nei (I Long For You) / Matangi (I Grieve For You) (1950)	My copy distinctly dished which I've not seen on 78 before. Heat or something else?
Scratchy45 7th Jun 2021		78 RPM The Revellers - The Blue Room / In A Shady Nook By A Babbling Brook (1927)	Scans added - side1/2 selection when putting this one purely on the basis of matrix numbers, however arbitrary this is for a pair of US-recorded sides with different artists.
Scratchy45 7th Jun 2021		78 RPM Charlie Higgins - I'm A Daddy At 63 / Charlie In Spain (1931)	When I'm 63... If only all labels scanned as colour-accurately as these Broadcast ones
Scratchy45 31st May 2021		78 RPM The Harry Simeone Chorale - The Little Drummer Boy / Die Lorelei (1959)	Scans added - details of the (then new) Top Rank label found with corresponding issue on 45cat - which has the same cat#.
Scratchy45 31st May 2021		78 RPM New Mayfair Dance Orchestra - See Me Dance The Polka / The Veleta (1933)	Label scans added: will see if I can improve on side 2
Scratchy45 31st May 2021		78 RPM Fred Barmy - I've Stood In This Market Place / He's Dead But He Won't Lie Down (1932)	[YouTube Video] I much prefer Gracie Fields, without the spoken preamble Mr Barmy (alias?) adds here.
Scratchy45 28th May 2021		78 RPM Norton Colville - Love Me / Tango Milonga (1949)	Lucky this was already scanned both sides. Have realised my copy is glued to a broken copy of His Master's Voice B.D. 6165. Two or three given that treatment in a recent large lot I bought. "Here's one I 'repaired' earlier"...
Scratchy45 28th May 2021		78 RPM Winifred Atwell - Port-Au-Prince / Startime (1956)	I'm partial to a bit of Atwell - and others joyfully ploughing an instrumental furrow. Often much to appreciate - particularly if you've played the joanna yourself at any level. Interesting variations on a theme, if that's doesn't sound too pretentious!
Scratchy45 22nd May 2021		78 RPM Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer) - Broken-Hearted Clown / September In The Rain (1937)	Scans of "Signature" labrls added,
Scratchy45 21st May 2021		78 RPM Issy Bonn - When You Come To The End Of The Day / Down The Old Spanish Trail (1947)	images added
Scratchy45 20th May 2021		78 RPM Clarence Whitehill - Vulcan's Song (1913)	Shame about the sticker - but very glad to have this and a couple of other single-sided 78s kindly donated to me.
Scratchy45 16th May 2021		78 RPM Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman (Laughing Song) / Laughter And Lemons (1926)	More laughter on the other side of this disc, attributed differently to a small cast of players... [YouTube Video]
Scratchy45 16th May 2021		78 RPM Jack Hylton - Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors / I Think Of What You Used To Think Of Me (1928)	Came across this 78 being used to demo a gramophone - very glad I chanced across its eccentric charms. Leslie Sarony who wrote the song, had an "interesting life" if what is in wikipedia is in any way accurate.
Scratchy45 16th May 2021		78 RPM Jack Hylton - Forty-Seven Ginger-Headed Sailors / I Think Of What You Used To Think Of Me (1928)	[YouTube Video]
Scratchy45 9th May 2021		78 RPM Bert Maddison's Orchestra - What Can I Do? / When It's Springtime In The Rockies (1930)	Scans added - titivated for legibility so not really representative of a rather darker label colour.
Scratchy45 7th May 2021		78 RPM Fred Vernon - The Girl In The Clogs And Shawl / Ship Ahoy ! (All The Girls Love A Sailor) (1910)	Label scans added. Guess I should ask for the full title of side 2 to appear here. You know what they say...
Scratchy45 25th Apr 2021		78 RPM Kenny Clarke And His Clique - You Go To My Head / Conglomerations (1952)	Oh....bother. Bought a big cache of mixed-condition 78s which had relatively few breakages for very little outlay. Then found a cache of cared-for-looking jazz 78s in a local charity shop, considerable more expensive. Bought the Esquire discs and found this one had crumbled inside the pristine-looking sleeve.
Scratchy45 25th Apr 2021		78 RPM J. L. Cowie - Afton Water / Hail To The Chief (1932)	Side A artist recorded as J.L. Corrie in Kelly database.
Scratchy45 25th Apr 2021		78 RPM Lord Kitchener - Nora (1950)	Colour variation labels added - a match for the youtube labels.
Scratchy45 24th Apr 2021		78 RPM Ernest Hare - Santa Claus Hides In The Phonograph / Santa Claus Will Soon Be Here	Side A sounds very painful and impractical - unless it's an absolutely humungous radiogram. Even then...
Scratchy45 22nd Apr 2021		78 RPM Webster Booth - Always / A Perfect Day (1947)	1947 taken as year of issue (from Date78). Dates of recording are 2 different months in 1941(Kelly).
Scratchy45 21st Apr 2021		78 RPM Mr. Fred Vernon - Billy Brown / The Last Pub	Just matrix numbers, no catalogue number as such, hence none entered.
Scratchy45 19th Apr 2021		78 RPM Deanna Durbin - One Fine Day / Spring In My Heart (1939)	Both versions have label text "Fabriqué en Angleterre"

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