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Member	Item		Review/Comment
scrough 23rd Jul 2020		78 RPM Harold Williams - March On ! / Night Song In Camp (1931)	A similar label for 'March On !' also appears at archive.org in TMR 65/66 but this is on LO 6 not LO 19, and the matrix numbers appear to be the same. The notes suggest this was recorded around December 1930. Perhaps some or all of these Blue Shirt recordings were re-released on higher numbers with the Columbia association removed from the label?
scrough 22nd Jul 2020		78 RPM Harold Williams - March On ! / Night Song In Camp (1931)	It seems to be a 'Private Issue', so maybe Columbia decided not to declare their association. Louis Sterling (head of Columbia around this time) was Jewish, so maybe that influenced the removal.
scrough 20th Jul 2020		78 RPM Leopold Stokowski And The Philadelphia Orchestra - Carnival Of The Animals No. 1 & 6 (1942)	Moved to HMV India. 'Dum Dum' on label is HMV India.
scrough 14th Jul 2020		78 RPM Callahan Brothers - She's My Curly Headed Baby / Once I Had A Darling Mother (1934)	Both sides recorded 2 Jan 1934.
scrough 14th Jul 2020		78 RPM Callahan Brothers - My Blue Eyed Jane / Lonesome Freight Train Blues (1939)	Both sides recorded 17 Feb 1939
scrough 14th Jul 2020		78 RPM Al Dexter And His Troopers - Jelly Roll Special / Sunshine (1947)	Both sides recorded 13 June 1939.
scrough 14th Jul 2020		78 RPM [no artist listed] - The History of Music In Sound (1957)	Issued Oct 1957 (HMS 1-9). Other HMS 10-31:May 1953;32-44:Nov 1953; 45-68:Oct 1954; 69-81:Oct 1957; 82-92:Sep 1958; 93-103:Nov 1958; 104-114:Feb 1959. {Source}
scrough 10th Jul 2020		78 RPM Pablo Casals - Träumerei (Reverie) / Melody In F (1927)	Bamboo - That probably dates your pressing to World War 2 - added extract from HMV supplement of that period. These recycling appeals were very common then.
scrough 4th Jul 2020		78 RPM Dame Clara Butt - Land Of Hope And Glory (1922)	All this 7100 series are 'Celebrity' single sided, and originally issued between Oct 1915 and Dec 1923. This disc (and many in the same series) were deleted in April 1924
scrough 2nd Jul 2020		78 RPM Robert Gladwell - Meet The Tiger / Meet The Tiger (1958)	As in my earlier comment: 224, Great Portland Street London, W.1 is the address of the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), so 'The Sound Recording Committee' is a group within the RNIB that decided what was published.
scrough 2nd Jul 2020		78 RPM Jan Kubelik - Souvenir / La Donna E Mobile (1905)	The record size is 27cm (10¾ inch). A side recorded May 1905 (mx: XPh 270), B Side recorded Feb 1905 (mx: XPh 156) or 2 Oct 1905 (mx: XPh 363) All Fonotipia listings similarly updated and biog added.
scrough 1st Jul 2020		78 RPM Robert Gladwell - Meet The Tiger / Meet The Tiger (1958)	The JG series were private issues, and only available from their publishers. The address given is for the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), so these are better known as 'Talking Books', a service that started in 1935. By the time I started working on RNIB equipment in the early 1970s, they were supplied as multi-track wide-tape cassettes, slightly smaller than video cassettes, played on special machines with a replay head that could be moved vertically using an index button to access each individual track.
scrough 30th Jun 2020		78 RPM Frederik Jensen - Ros Din Kone / Barn I Kirke (1922)	Although these sides were recorded in 1908 and 1909, HMV started to release a cheap blue label with the AL prefix only in 1922. Most of the AL issues were never pressed as such, and every month the local HMV agency circulated record dealers a list of (?slow-selling?) discs to be "re-labelled" as AL. Dealers then sent for the desired number of labels and pasted them on the records.
scrough 29th Jun 2020		78 RPM Enrico Caruso - L'Africana – O Paradiso (1907)	Until mid-1908 when the Hayes UK factory opened, all Gramophone Co pressings were made in Germany, apart from a pressing plant in Riga (then part of the Russian Empire) for Russia which started in 1902, However, it could be argued that the label style with cat numbers on a slant on each bottom side is "German" in style, but it also appears on Italian releases.
scrough 29th Jun 2020		78 RPM Societa Corale "La Patria" - Inno Ad Oberdan / Sulle Balze Del Trentino	Moved to Italy. The green label suggests that this was released in the Italian domestic catalogue.
scrough 28th Jun 2020		78 RPM Noel Coward - Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans / The Welcoming Land (1943)	[YouTube Video] Banned by the BBC!
scrough 27th Jun 2020		78 RPM Ф. И. Шаляпин - Элегiя (1902)	The second block (untranslated) in the previous comment is 'Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin'. The Kelly database gives this catalogue item as recorded in January 1902 at the Hotel Continental, Moscow by William Sinkler Darby.
scrough 24th Jun 2020		78 RPM Margarete Matzenauer - Trovatore-Stride La Vampa! (Fierce Flames Are Soaring!) / Lucrezia Borgia-Brindisi (Drinking Song-It Is Better To Laugh) (1924)	She appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera for 19 seasons between 1911 and 1930, which is why her later recordings appear on Victor. But she appeared in concert in London in 1924 which possibly explains the issue of this 'Special Record' (wikipedia).
scrough 22nd Jun 2020		78 RPM Eton College Musical Society - Just As The Tide Was Flowing / Bobby Shaftoe (1927)	The cat numbers in the software are strictly in number order, and checked when selected, otherwise an error is flagged. But it gives the result that C-1321 is May 1927, and C-1323 to 1328 are also May. So C-1322 should also be assigned to May, until better info is found.
scrough 21st Jun 2020		78 RPM Don Barreto And His Cuban Orchestra - Ojos Verdes / Nuestro Cantar (1932)	That date was provided by the submitter. But Eddie Shaw's D.A.T.E.S. suggests 1932 (F-2760 to F-3373).
scrough 17th Jun 2020		78 RPM Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid (1913)	Recorded on 6 Nov 1911, so the best indicator of date we have is 1912. Use the 'Katalog No.' (07962) in the 'Issue Number' box in a basic search of the Kelly Database for a list of possibles.Click on any match for more details.
scrough 17th Jun 2020		78 RPM Kapelle Des Staats-Theaters Opernhaus, Berlin - L'Arlesienne, I. Suite, I. Teil / L'Arlesienne, II. Suite, II. Teil (1918)	Recorded in 1918, so the best indicator of date we have. Use the second part of 'Katalog No.' (40551) in the 'Issue Number' box in a basic search of the Kelly Database for a list of possibles.Click on any match for more details.
scrough 14th Jun 2020		78 RPM Frank Luther - Alice In Wonderland / Alice In Wonderland (Contd.) (1936)	As it states, it's a trade mark. The musical notes on it are D-E-C-C-A. But as it's where the musical copyright symbol is usually put, it probably means that Decca owns the copyright, or in the case of something like K.799, that no copyright payment is due (Haydn 1732-1809). Compare this with the copyright stamp on HMV B 377
scrough 14th Jun 2020		78 RPM George Formby [Senior] - Twice Nightly / Did You See The Crowd In Piccadilly? (1916)	Hopefully the two further additions to the Forum thread have answered many things, so I've linked it in the label biog to make it easier to find again.
scrough 13th Jun 2020		78 RPM George Formby [Senior] - Twice Nightly / Did You See The Crowd In Piccadilly? (1916)	I'd not noticed the tax stamp price and written the thread based on label design! But it's even more complicated as the royalty was based on a percentage of the record sale price (2½% for works already published and 5% for new works - see {here}). So we also need a list of Zono prices :(
scrough 13th Jun 2020		78 RPM George Formby [Senior] - Twice Nightly / Did You See The Crowd In Piccadilly? (1916)	Sorted nominally by style, but the true order of Zonophone-The Twin labels is indeterminate. It's too complicated to explain in a comment, so see this thread {link}
scrough 12th Jun 2020		78 RPM Leopold Demuth - Ich habe gekämpft (1906)	Recorded in Vienna in 1905, so nominally dated as 1906. As the description is in German I've moved it to Austria
scrough 11th Jun 2020		78 RPM Phil Green - Aunt Hagar's Blues	Have a read of this biography {link}. Perhaps sometime 1935-9 as a UK recording for a European commercial station broadcast (eg Radio Luxembourg {link})?
scrough 11th Jun 2020		78 RPM Mr. James Hudson - Miner's Dream Of Home / Don't Go Down The Mine, Dad	I think TheJudge's reply was plagued by typos - "may best to but the B-side cat#" should have read "may be best to put the B-side cat#". There is an edit to add "Other Cat#s" below "Catalogue Number" when you enter a record. Either way is OK I think.
scrough 11th Jun 2020		78 RPM Alexander Prince - Lost Chord / Il Bacio (1913)	One of the admins decided years ago that it was better to list the two labels separately to make it easier to find where to list an entry from the apparent label name. The 952/953 on the earlier Winner labels are 'face numbers'. These are believed to be used by Edison Bell as part of the plan to hide its involvement in early The Winner issues. 'Lost Chord' was previously issued on E-B Bell Disc 205 in July 1910, and E-B Velvet Face 1005 in December 1910. 'Il Bacio' was previously issued on E-B Velvet Face 1004 in December 1910.

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