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slholzer 13th Jun 2021		78 RPM Freddy Sunder With The Continentals - Rock-a-Bye-Boogie / Marcheta (1953)	Both sides of this disc are viewable on the discogs website, which it must be said has an extensive collection of Ronnex. in case anyone thinks I'm unduly pushing them. It is what it is.
slholzer 13th Jun 2021		78 RPM Gaston Bogart And His Continentals - Maria Magdalena / El Nuevo Baïon (1953)	There is a third composer on the label to Side B. It is Charly. I'm guessing there wasn't enough space to put him in. You can see both sides of this label currently on the discogs website.
slholzer 13th Jun 2021		78 RPM Taps Miller - Manneke Pis Boogie / How About Me (1953)	This disc also can be found bearing the yellow label which in general seems to be more common, but perhaps not so much so with this one. You can see that version on the discogs website.
slholzer 13th Jun 2021		78 RPM Freddy Sunder - The Flat Foot Floogie / Calling Car Boogie (1953)	There are two versions of this disc. On both versions Slam Stewart is mis-spelled as S. Stuwart, On one version Slim Gaillard's last name loses an L (Gailard, not Goilard, so perhaps there is a third version) and R.J. van Hoogten's name is given at full length. On the other version Gaillard's name is correct but Van Hoogten is shortened to merely Hoogten.(I don't know what was intended here as to Van Hoogten. I suspect the space ran out before the name did. A note would be helpful in cases like that.) Oh, and just to make things really interesting, the mx numbers are switched from one version to the other. Each song bears 18507 on one disc and 18508 on the other. Both versions are viewable on the discogs website.
slholzer 10th Jun 2021		78 RPM Ernest Hare - When I Looked In Your Wonderful Eyes / The Love Boat (1920)	Photos of both sides are available on the discogs website.
slholzer 10th Jun 2021		78 RPM James And Hart - When You Hold Me In Your Arms / Girl Of Mine (1919)	You can see both sides on the discogs website.
slholzer 6th May 2021		78 RPM Sarah Vaughan - September Song / Don't Worry About Me (1947)	The B side composer, shown on the label as Kahler, is incorrecty transcribed by Musicana from the original Musicraft 500 label, where it was also incorrectly transcribed (as Kohler) from the correct composer's name (Koehler). Since the correct pronunciation of Koehler is closer to to Kayler, somebody may have been trying to get it right at Musicana.
slholzer 6th May 2021		78 RPM Ken Griffin - Apple Blossom Wedding / The Griffin Blues (Original) (1946)	You will note that the composer credit, which is missing on the Musicana version, is given as Simon on the Apple Blossom Wedding side of the original Broadcast recording. (See the linked release).
slholzer 10th Mar 2021		78 RPM Piedmont Dance Orchestra - Midnight Waltz / In The Heart Of Hawaii	The true identity of the Piedmont Dance Orchestra on this disc is Max Terr AHO. The entry for these sides can be found in the American Dance Band Discography on page 1794, although there is no reference there to Starck 238. You will find a reference to Pathe Actuelle 036238, whose catalog number is visible under the label of the illustrated disc and which, according to Rust bears both the same titles and uses the same pseudonym as this disc. Such examples as are known to me suggest that Starck usually emulated the parent company's pseudonyms (they may, for that matter, not have known they were pseudonyms). The Starck catalog number appears to have been arrived at by keeping the last three digits of the Pathe Actuelle counterpart in the 25000 or 36000 series. The practice is consistent in the 12 or so Starcks I know of.
slholzer 8th Mar 2021		78 RPM Harriet Kay - Yum Yum / Dear One (1955)	There are two versions of this disc extant. They probably tell an interesting story, if we only knew. I don't know which version is the earlier, but I'm guessing it is not this one. If you take the version illustrated here and you swap the text at the 3 o'clock position that reads "Paul Livert conducting the Dawn All Stars" with Harriet Kay's name and vocal credit while simultaneously enlarging Livert's type and reducing Kay's, you get the variant label version. Also, the composer credit on the variant version reads Doc Pomus instead of Jerry Pomus on the Yum Yum side.
slholzer 13th Feb 2021		78 RPM Larry Monroe - She's A Great Great Girl / You'd Rather Forget Than Forgive	The Superior 300 series is one of the best-kept secrets in 78 history. Rust makes no mention of them whatsover in the American Record Label Book, although they appear to be very similar in content to the more common 2500 series, which he discusses in as much detail as he ever does anything. Some of them are included in the American Dance Band Discography, some also in Godrich and Dixon, and they get rather better coverage in Country Music Records 1921-1942. Had there been many of them to include in Jazz Records, perhaps Rust would have been more aware of them. As is it, he seems to have gotten Superior confused with the Grey Gull Supreme subsidiary label. Many of the entries identified as Superior in the ADBD clearly show strikeovers of the "r" from Spr on the "m" in Spm. Others are still sailing under the false Supreme flag. Unlike the 2500s, which numbered in the 300s, the 300 series seems to have ended at or near number 386..
slholzer 12th Feb 2021		78 RPM Mr. And Mrs. George Holmes - The House At The End Of The Lane / Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet (1931)	Per Country Music Records (1921-1942) Mr. & Mrs. George Holmes are pseudonyms for Mr. & Mrs. W.C Childers, Bowers and Lewis are pseudonyms for Asa Martin and James Roberts. The Childers side was cut on May 15, 1930 in Richmond, IN. The Martin and Roberts side was cut on April 24, 1930, also in Richmond, IN.
slholzer 12th Feb 2021		78 RPM Joe Lester And Dick Moss - My Old Pal Of Yesterday / Missouri Is Calling (1931)	Per Country Music Records 1921-1942 and Allen Sutton's Pseudonyms on American Records (1892-1942), Joe Lester & Dick Moss are pseudonyms for Jimmy Long and Cliff Keiser. Both sides were recorded in Richmond, IN. Side A was cut on August 21, 1930. Side B was made on Dec. 2, 1930.
slholzer 12th Feb 2021		78 RPM Speed Jeffries And His Night Owls - Georgia Grind / Wild Man Stomp (1931)	Neither Brian Rust in the 6th edition of Jazz Records, nor Allen Sutton in Pseudonyms On American Records, nor apparently, anyone else, make note of the spelling of the bandleader's name on this disc. They both think that this record is credited to Speed Jeffries AH Night Owls, but it is actually spelled Jefferies. The band for whom this pseudonym serves is usually known as the State Street Ramblers. Per Rust, Superior 2670, 2728, 2755, and 2797 are supposed to be similarly credited. The side of 2728 that appears on this website also reads Jefferies instead of Jeffries, although it is indexed, like this one, under Jeffries. Perhaps the extra "e" does not appear on the others. (By the by, The "Sic 'Em, Tige" side of Superior 2728 is incorrectly listed in JR6 as 2738.)
slholzer 11th Feb 2021		78 RPM Flossie Smith And The Red Hot Twins - Ain't Goin' There No More / Hokum Stomp (1931)	In Blues And Gospel Records, Godrich and Dixon rejected the position that Flossie Smith is Mozelle Alderson, favoring Jane Lucas as the more probable identity. The ODP and Allen Sutton, author of Pseudonyms on American Records (1892-1942) both favor Alderson. Everybody seems to agree that the Red Hot Twins were Thomas A. Dorsey (aka Georgia Tom) and Big Bill Broonzy. Per Godrich & Dixon, Side A was recorded in Richmond, IN on Nov. 19, 1930. Side B was recorded in Richmond, IN on Nov. 20, 1930.
slholzer 11th Feb 2021		78 RPM [no artist listed] - When We Were Very Young	These sides are Christopher Robin Songs composed by A.A. Milne.
slholzer 11th Feb 2021		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Now We Are Six	These sides are Christopher Robin Songs composed by A.A. Milne.
slholzer 11th Feb 2021		78 RPM [no artist listed] - When We Were Very Young	These sides are Christopher Robin Songs composed by A.A. Milne. It is characteristic of the Filmophone product that there is no room for that vital attribution on the label.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - The "Kunz" Medley No. 12 (1935)	The B3 title is incorrect on the label. The proper name of the song is Stars Fell On Alabama, not In Alabama.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - The "Kunz" Medley (1934)	The "clearer labels" uploaded by suncat are not the same as the muddied ones originally posted. Look closely at them and you will see that both the A and B sides bear the mx number S 4039. The mx number on the original A side is S 4038, and unlike the number on the "clearer" version, which is cleanly placed below the nearby text, the number on the original photo encroaches marginally on the label text above it. It appears that in trying to correct one mistake, Sterno made another. The story does not appear to end there. On the discogs website you can view both sides of a third version, which appears to be the "clearer" version with the A-side mx corrected back to S 4038. It also looks to me as if both mx numbers have been moved yet a little further away from the neighboring text.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Mantovani And His Tipica Orchestra - Love Me Again / Everlasting Flowers (1934)	The Sterno listing on Mike Thomas' mgthomas website suggests that the mx number on the A-side label is incorrect. It reads S3548. Thomas says the correct number is S 3458.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - The "Kunz" Medley (1934)	I am making an educated guess that there were at least two versions of this label issued, The illustrated A-side has the matrix number at the bottom (at the 6 o'clock position) and a two line artist credit. The illustrated B-side has the matrix number at the 8 o'clock position and recessed from the label edge, with a three line artist credit. This suggests that they came from two different versions of the disc, or that the exemplar used as a donor was a hybrid that used labels from two different printings, more than likely creating a third version in the process. The Kunz medleys were apparently enormously popular and must have each gone through several pressings in the short life remaining to the Sterno label after they first appeared. Most of them are known to exist in at least three label variants that mix and match 3 different matrix number locations (6 o'clock, 8 o'clock near the edge, 8 o'clock recessed) and 3 different artist credit configurations (2 of 2 lines, one 3 line). I expect that this one is no different.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - The "Kunz" Medley (1934)	A version of this disc on the discogs website includes "My Blue Heaven" as a third title on the B-side. It is also worth noting that whereas the illustrated disc bears the matrix numbers S2801 and S2802, the numbers S3801 and S3802 can be seen on two discogs variants. One of them is the afore-mentioned version with the extra B-side title. The matrix number is at the 6 o'clock position on that one. On the other one, the matrix number is in the 8 o'clock position and recessed from the edge of the label.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - The "Kunz" Medley (1934)	There is a variant version of this label currently viewable on the discogs website. It has the artiist credit divided into three lines, as opposed to the two lines on the illustrated version. If this Kunz medley is like the others, there may also be a second variant with only two lines but divided differently than this one.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - The "Kunz" Medley (1934)	There is a third variant, one side of which can be viewed on the discogs site. It also has the artist credit condensed into two lines instead of three, but Casani has been moved to the first line from the second, allowing the entire block of text to nestle more comfortably in the label space allotted to it.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Sydney Lipton And The New Grosvenor House Band - Whistling Under The Moon / About This Time Next Week (1933)	The Sterno listing on Mike Thomas' mgthomas website lists the A-side as by Mantovani and his Tipica Orchestra, not by Sydney Lipton. It would be nice to have a photo to resolve this question.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Kinsman - Love Is The Sweetest Thing / I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy (1933)	A-side composer Nobel is a mis-spelling of the true composer's name. He was in fact Ray Noble, who also wrote the B-side tune. Both songs appeared in the movie "Say It With Music'.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Tex Richardson - Prairie Lullaby / Home On The Range (1933)	Per the Sterno listing on Mike Thomas' mgthomas website, Tex Richardson is a pseudonym on this disc for Monte Hunter.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Oscar Rabin And His Romany Band - Hold Me / Blue Cloud (1933)	The 2nd B-side composer 's name should have been spelled Damerell. This mistake has been made by the Sterno staff on other issues, as well.
slholzer 28th Jan 2021		78 RPM Zigano's Accordeon Band - In Far Away Donegal / Emilienne (1933)	Per the Sterno listing on Mike Thomas' mgthomas website, the yodelling on these two sides is by Billy Noonan.

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