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Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM The Platters - The Great Pretender / Only You (And You Alone) (1956)	I'll learn my calendar one day. It does look like Pye's licensing was behind Decca with London whom if the Platters had been associated with them would probably got both singles out within a few months or less of US issue.
Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM Stuart Robertson - The Owl And The Pussy Cat / The Table And The Chair (1935)	No Mention of Edward Lear ?
Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM Alma Cogan - Why Do Fools Fall In Love? / (The Same Thing Happens With) The Birds And The Bees (1956)	B Side , From the Film 'The Birds and The Bees' OEA 18662 OEA 18663 I think this version is slightly better than Frankie Lymon's Orginal
Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM Stanley Kirkby - Over There / Your England And Mine (1918)	5645 5646
Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - The Blue Skirt Waltz / Hop-Scotch Polka (1949)	B Side has lower matrix number. Vocalists The Lombardo Quartet A Side Vocalists Kenny Gardner and The Lombardo Trio B Side
Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM The Ink Spots - To Each His Own / Everyone Is Saying Hello Again (1946)	S T Tax Code And B Side Variation In Copyright [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 2nd Feb 2013		78 RPM Frank Luther And Carson Robison - His Old Cornet / Smoky Mountain Bill (1931)	Anyone got a date for this record? 'Comic' sung duet, B side in style of Western (USA) banjo playing. Think it is trying to emulate what may have been popular in 1910s America. Label style normal 1930s Brunswick , but Bottom of Circle is WARNER-BRUNSWICK LTD / MADE IN ENGLAND Date looks to be around 1930, issued on US Brunswick as two sides from previous Victor Discs (with Luther as Bud Billings). And Wiki gives dates of 1928-1931 as the main partnership of Carson with Frank Luther. Their writing partnership is best known perhaps with Luther providing score for Robison's " Barnacle Bill The Sailor." Robison also wrote "The Runaway Train." "His Old Cornet": Is this the first use of "The Cows Went Dry and the Hens Wouldn't Lay" in a song? It was reprised in a different tempo by Carson Robison for Peter Lind Hayes' 1948 "Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It?" (Brunswick 04036). For A side: pronunciation Core - Net
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Russ Morgan - The More We Are Together / So Tired (1948)	Also my copy has what looks like half punched miss punchings of the centre hole ( one on one side , two on the other ! ) A bad day at the plant due to demand. So Tired has a rather famous muted yet loud trumpet (Trombone ?) riff in it, yet no youtube ? Found One , though its from the USA Decca , very clear so guess its from a later compliation from any kind of master. [YouTube Video] Apparently Recorded on October 11, 1945....and was "dug up" and released during the 1948-'49 AFM musicians strike against the major recording studios...and became a #1 hit (and Morgan's biggest) in April of '49! (Barry I Garuman comment on Youtube
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM The Platters - The Great Pretender / Only You (And You Alone) (1956)	And Both Tunes out on 45EP earlier in the Year http://www.45cat.com/record/mep9504 Maybe it was cheaper to licence two sure-fire hits on one than to sell and produce two individual ones.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM The Rhythmic Eight - Why Is The Bacon So Tough ? / In A Bamboo Garden (1929)	Also by Fred Douglas on Regal G 9237 [YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Jack Hylton - He Played His Ukuele As The Ship Went Down / He Played His Ukuele As The Ship Went Down (Continued) (1932)	[YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM The Bach Choir - Rock Of Ages / Abide With Me (1948)	CT (Tax Code ? ) On both labels
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Gracie Fields - Somewhere, Somehow, Someday / At The End Of The Day (1952)	+1P on each side of label
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Gracie Fields - Now Is The Hour / Come Back To Sorrento (1947)	Label does not give a Credit to Aveling on B Side DR. 11487 DR. 11489 Vocal , with Orchestral Accompaniment Conducted by Phil Green
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Beryl Davis - You Keep Coming Back Like A Song / The Way That The Wind Blows (1946)	Wonder what the Robert Farnon Society thinks of the 'Bob Farnon' credit ST Tax Code
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Adrian Rollini - Ah ! But Is It Love / I've Gotta Get Up And Go To Work (1933)	With Vocal Refrain First on here for Adrian Rollini ? A Side is a melodic tune with subtle vibraphone, B Side a Stomping Swing Tune with unsubtle Bass Sax. Only fairly recently appeared on Spotify , rarely seen on CD compliations etc , but the vocal treatment seems different to this copy , was Decca getting the vocals re-recorded over supplied 'backing tracks' from its US suppliers I think in 1933/1934 Decca seemed to have licensed a substantial number of tracks from the US as numbering goes along at about 2 a week.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Roland Peachey And His Royal Hawaiians - Hawaiian War Chant / Sophisticated Hula (1941)	Is this a Pseudonym for Ray Noble ? Radio Three is a Female Trio. Cannot read composer on some Decca , as like Brunswick the Gold Ink is fading or lost in the inner depressed ring. [YouTube Video] A Side tune used on a MFP LP by The Hawaiian Beach Boys ( Which I Think is Joe Loss and His Orchestra ) A Side has Hawaiian title in brackets that I cannot read [YouTube Video] You tubes sound like they have been recorded by mike from speaker in a bathroom.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Charlie Kunz - Charlie Kunz Piano Medley No. 114 (1954)	What does the AP on the label mean, is it related to the s on many Decca 45s ? [Later answer, AP is one of Decca's Purchase Tax Codes.] http://www.45cat.com/record/f10419 Do we need TITLE as a category as for 45cat? (It's there but only on add missing info screen) DR. 19791: There Must Be A Reason(Davis, Murry); Hold My Hand (Lawrence, Myers); I'll Give My Heart To You (Crane, Jacobs, Brewster) DR. 19792: Little Things Mean A Lot (Lindeman, Stutz); Make Her Mine (Gallop, Conn); My Son, My Son (Calvert, Farley, Howard)
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Lord Rockingham's XI - Hoots Mon / Blue Train (1958)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Lord Rockingham's XI - The Squelch / Fried Onions (1958)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Liz Winters With Bob Cort And His Skiffle - Freight Train / Love Is Strange (1957)	[YouTube Video]
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM The Johnston Brothers And The Keynotes - In The Middle Of The House / Stranded In The Jungle (1956)	Obituary For Johnny Johnson http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-johnny-johnston-1164345.html The Keynotes generally a quartet with a changing line up over time but with Johnny Johnson as lead member , The Johnson Brothers were originally Johnston, Alan Dean and Denny Vaughan from 1949. ( from Obit ). Anyone know the correct line up for this disc ?
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Lew Stone And The Monseigneur Dance Orchestra - Nightfall / In The Still Of The Night (1932)	Quite how mum's collection of 1930s music survived a London in WW2 is a bit of a mystery ( Well some came from Great -Aunts from under the stairs , and although the bombs and doodlebugs fell close by including getting windows out and some ceiling damage the main house survived ). Sorry , maybe inappropriate as I note that Vocalist Al Bowlly was killed by the explosion of a parachute mine outside his flat in Duke's Court St James, London during the Blitz in 1941.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Renate Müller - Wonderful To Me / Little Sunshine (1932)	Looks Like 'Marry Me' was a Gainsborough Picture , according to http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/33328307 ( Perth , Australia , The West Australian 01 Sep 1933 advertorial and Advert )
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Renate Müller - Wonderful To Me / Little Sunshine (1932)	With Orchestra Accompaniment. Renate Müller , see Wiki for biography, Decca didnt have a ü in stock. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] I think the Decca Cut has a bit more oomph in the sound , the youtube is a bit muffled.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Renate Müller - Wonderful To Me / Little Sunshine (1932)	Somewhat unusual matrix numbering and style
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Frank Weir - Chlo-E (Song Of The Swamp) / You Go To My Head (1946)	ST Tax Code
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM George Formby - Do De O Do / Chinese Blues (1932)	Apparently the Orchestral Accompaniment Is Jack Hylton's Band. [YouTube Video] Songfacts Chinese Laundry Blues" was Formby's signature tune, and the first of his "Mr Wu" songs. In the 1974 biography by Alan Randall and Ray Seaton, its genesis is given. Songwriter John Cotterill is said to have visited Formby in his dressing room when the future star was playing in Mother Goose, and picked out a tune on one of his ukuleles. John Cotterill was actually Jack Cottrell, and according to Dennis Taylor, President of the George Formby Society, Formby turned down the song initially, but when he was given the chance to record a song with Jack Hylton- he chose "Chinese Laundry Blues" as the B Side of "Doh Di Oh Doh"; the song was initially called "Chinese Blues", and its hero is a lovesick Chinese laundry worker in Limehouse, a dockside area of London which had a large Chinese population at this time. But I have also heard words to effect that the lyrics were sent in the post to George , and after release he wrote to Cotterill , Absolutly Full of Inuendo and quite inappropriate- Got Any More ? Probably from Frank Skinner on George Formby (2011 ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-7bYFmM18 but might have been a BBC Radio 2 Stuart Macconie tribute.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Maurice Elwin - The Gold Diggers' Song ( We're In The Money) / Pettin' In The Park (1933)	A First addition for me for Maurice Elwin as a credited lead soloist. Yet another of my collection that seems to have fallen down the cracks of history with little , if any , appearances on later re-issues.
Whyperion SUBS 1st Feb 2013		78 RPM Issy Bonn - Let Bygones Be Bygones / Before You Break My Heart (1946)	Unless this a W S Gilbert tune , It sort of seems appropriate for a post-war song in some kind of attempt to look to the future [YouTube Video] B Side I think has only recently come out on CD or Virtual CD , did it ever make an LP Album?

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