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Member	Item		Review/Comment
TheJudge 11th Mar 2013		78 RPM Symphony Orchestra - Ballet De Syliva Prelude And Pizzicato / Ballet De Syliva Intermezzo And Valse Lente (1927)	If you mean the [M] in the introductory paragraphs on that page, that's to denote when he's referring to Adam Miller's website.
TheJudge 11th Mar 2013		78 RPM Symphony Orchestra - Ballet De Syliva Prelude And Pizzicato / Ballet De Syliva Intermezzo And Valse Lente (1927)	No, Broadcast was a UK label (although it did release in Australia). It was set up by Vocalion, and was re-activated by Crystalate when they bought Vocalion. (See Mike Thomas' site.) As to the 'M', I wonder if this denoted that the sides were recorded using the Marconi Company's electrical process? This was spelled out on some of the Broadcast Twelve labels, but perhaps lack of space reduced it to just the 'M' on the 8" Broadcast discs.
TheJudge 7th Mar 2013		78 RPM The Three Stooges - Wreck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly / Jingle Bells (1960)	Transferred from an entry (now deleted) at 45cat originally uploaded by funkyboymark on 17 Sept. 2012.
TheJudge 6th Mar 2013		78 RPM The Rosarian Dance Orchestra - My Sweet Hortense / Uncle Sambo	Done.
TheJudge 2nd Mar 2013		78 RPM Bourneville Pensioners' Male Voice Choir - ?	Thanks. Sorted.
TheJudge 2nd Mar 2013		78 RPM The Oliver Band - Captain Kettle (One Step) / Oh! Maggie, What Have You Been Up To? (1929)	I don't think so; Oliver was a Crystalate label, like Broadcast.
TheJudge 2nd Mar 2013		78 RPM Bourneville Pensioners' Male Voice Choir - ?	Scratchy45, The correction you requested says "Pensioners" rather than the singular. Could you confirm which? TY
TheJudge 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. The difference would be minimal, and the old wind-up gramophones wouldn't have speed levers which could fine-tune that well.
TheJudge 13th Feb 2013		78 RPM Don Porto's Accordion Band - For You Rio Rita / Give Me Your Hand Little Lady (1933)	From Mike Thomas' site: "There was also a blue-labelled SC-1 series for more serious music."
TheJudge 9th Feb 2013		78 RPM Patti Page - Hocus (1955)	I wonder if Patti could yodel?
TheJudge 5th Feb 2013		78 RPM The Roosters - Army Reminiscences (1928)	'&c' was quite a common way of writing/printing it at one time.
TheJudge 5th Feb 2013		78 RPM George Formby - John Willie, Come On / I Was Always A Willing Young Lad (1926)	No, it's old (young) halibut-face himself, in one of his earliest waxings: Discography.
TheJudge 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM George Formby [Senior] - Jolly / Oh My ! What A Shame ! (1916)	GF Snr.'s catch-phrase was "Coughin' well tonight!", so your family has adapted it!
TheJudge 30th Jan 2013		78 RPM The Platters - The Great Pretender / Only You (And You Alone) (1956)	The Pye Group seem to have been making vinyl 78s in 1957, as my copies of The Diamonds' Little Darlin' and Lonnie Donegan's Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O* are vinyl, as is my copy of Petula Clark's Alone from the following year.*
TheJudge 29th Jan 2013		78 RPM Bobbie Comber - Oh, There Ain't Such A Thing As Worry / What Shall We Do With The Midshipmaid? (1933)	I've always gone for 'Super Twelve' because it reads better (i.e. right-to-left). I know Mike Thomas (see previous link) has it the other way round, though.
TheJudge 24th Jan 2013		78 RPM Gandino - In A Monastery Garden / In A Persian Market (1930)	Stamps On Recordings
TheJudge 18th Jan 2013		78 RPM Skip James - Devil Got My Woman / Cypress Grove Blues (1931)	Cat# changed and image hidden for now.
TheJudge 17th Jan 2013		78 RPM The Happiness Boys - There Are No Flies On Auntie / Bam Bam Bammy Shore	Are these the same Revellers who also recorded as The Singing Sophomores ?
TheJudge 14th Jan 2013		78 RPM Jo Stafford - Around The Corner / Don't Worry 'Bout Me (1952)	Oh my god fathers! My old man used to sing the refrain from this to me when we were in a car or bus which went round a bend! Music is the nearest we have to a working time machine. [YouTube Video]
TheJudge 13th Jan 2013		78 RPM Edna Savage - Something Old And Something New / A Tear Fell (1956)	Yes.
TheJudge 13th Jan 2013		78 RPM Gracie Fields And Sandy Powell - Gracie And Sandy At The Coronation Part 1 / Gracie And Sandy At The Coronation Part 2 (1937)	Thanks mickey, date changed.
TheJudge 12th Jan 2013		78 RPM The Silver Stars Band - Stars And Stripes For Ever / Under The Double Eagle (1915)	What's curious about this coupling in an historical sense is that we have an American march on one side (when the U.S. hadn't yet joined in the War), and a German one on the B-side at a time when the Boche were the enemy, dont'cha know?
TheJudge 10th Jan 2013		78 RPM Аша Бхонсле (Asha Bhosle) - Песня На Балу (Ты Не Прячь Глаза) Part 1 / Песня На Балу (Ты Не Прячь Глаза) Part 2 (1956)	Manna Dey only appears on the B-side. Amended.
TheJudge 9th Jan 2013		78 RPM Gilbert Bécaud - Les Enfants Oubliés / Passe Ton Chemin (1954)	Cette une bonne question - Louis?
TheJudge 9th Jan 2013		78 RPM Banda Municipale - Marcia Reale (1903)	I'm pretty sure this isn't an Italian release either, so I've changed it to 'UK' and amended the artists' name.
TheJudge 5th Jan 2013		78 RPM Charles Jolly - The Laughing Policeman / You've Got To Laugh (1922)	Wikipedia says that the song was written in 1922, and that seems to tie in with this cat#. 'Billie Grey', incidentally, was a pseudonym for Penrose's second wife Mabel Anderson.
TheJudge 28th Dec 2012		78 RPM The Cairo Ramblers - Ragging The Classics No. I. / Ragging The Classics No. II. (1923)	From Mike Thomas' useful site: "Scala records first appeared in Britain in 1911, part of the cheap German import invasion which helped drive prices down at the time. They used mainly Beka masters at the time. Following the end of the war, Scala made a re-appearance [...] ; this time made in Britain and using masters from Gennett & Vocalion in America and home-produced masters with a CH-prefix. Only the CH- ones which are hand-scribed are genuine Scala matrices. If the number is type-stamped, it is a control number covering a master from English Vocalion. The label was discontinued in 1927 along with many other Vocalion-styled 10" records, when they decided to concentrate on 8" issues. The catalogue numbering started at 1 originally, and the same series used post-war, reaching nearly 900, though some early issues had a 1 in front of the normal catalogue number (when the number had reached over 100). I think this was to align it with the same issues on Coliseum."
TheJudge 27th Dec 2012		78 RPM The Queen's Hall Light Orchestra - Coronation Scot / The Horse Guards (1948)	This can't be from 1938 - Down Your Way was first broadcast in 1946.
TheJudge 27th Dec 2012		78 RPM Ruby Murray - I'll Come When You Call / It's The Irish In Me (1955)	Always liked the B-side of this. I had a copy for years, but it broke.
TheJudge 26th Dec 2012		78 RPM Adalbert Lutter - Auf! Auf! Auffi Zum Tanz! / In München Steht Ein Hofbräuhaus (1937)	Interesting how they put the title of the other side on the bottom of the labels.

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