benchwarrant17 5th Nov 2023 | | 78 RPMGene Autry - Be Honest With Me / What's Gonna Happen To Me | According to publishing info and Gene's website, "Be Honest With Me" was an Autry-Rose collaboration. Error on disc label carried down several years.
https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig362li
Be honest with me ; w & m Gene Autry
& Fred Rose. © June 16, 1941; E
pub. 96502; West'rn music pub. co.,
Hollywood, Calif. 30556
https://www.geneautry.com/musicmovies/musiccds/essentialgeneautry2.html
Be Honest With Me (2:45)
(G. Autry, F. Rose)
Gene Autry
mx. LA 2313 (A 31232), rec. 08/20/1940
Okeh record #05980, rel. 01/17/1941
Originally Released 1941
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benchwarrant17 17th Nov 2022 | | 78 RPMBing Crosby - Thanks / Black Moonlight | from my address book
Decca LA
1934-1940
5505 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Recordings Incorporated Studios, 5505 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Date: 8/8/34
Before 1940, the studio and transcription business located at 5505 Melrose Avenue was known as Recordings, Inc. and was used extensively by Decca from the very beginning of its recording history in 1934.
When Recordings, Inc. went out of business in 1940, Decca took over the building at 5505 Melrose Avenue, installed all new equipment,and became Decca Studios, Hollywood.
September 1944
Decca Recording Studio, 5505 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
http://stevenlewis.info/crosby/1930s.htm
1934
Aug 8 Records Decca's first songs at Decca Studios at 5505 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, 'I Love You Truly,' 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart,' and two others, under contracts that eventually run to December 31, 1955.
Jul 5 Bing records Love in Bloom and three other songs in Los Angeles to conclude his contract with Brunswick Records.
1936
Jul 24/29 Records songs from Pennies From Heaven in Hollywood with Georgie Stoll and his orchestra.
Decca California Pressing Plants
960 N. La Brea Ave
Built in 1933. From 1945 through 1954 the build was the home of Decca Records pressing plant.
https://mediadistrict.org/history/
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benchwarrant17 3rd Sep 2022 | | 78 RPMGene Autry - You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) / Mexicali Rose | B Gene Autry Mexicali Rose Stone, Tenney
I am looking for any indication that lyricist Helen Stone is a real person!
I think Jack invented her, there is nothing 1923-present
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benchwarrant17 3rd Sep 2022 | | 78 RPMGene Autry - You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) / Mexicali Rose | W.B.lbl
23rd Nov 2021
Around what time, after CBS' purchase of ARC, did Columbia move its Chicago studios out of the Furniture Mart building into CBS network facilities? (I know 1956 was when they settled at 630 N. McClurg Court, but in-between those . . . )
Stevens Hotel, 720 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 1939
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benchwarrant17 18th Aug 2022 | | 78 RPMCootie Williams - Red Blues / Things Ain't What They Used To Be | 'There is a long history of chicanery in the recording industry'
you are so correct, especially the claims submitted to the US Copyright Office by publishers and artists back in this time period. The first record with the title "Red Blues" is already making me laugh. What is "FT"? Doesn't matter, just curious
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