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78 RPM Record

Artist:Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
Label:  MGM
Country:USA
Catalogue:10352
Date:11 Feb 1949
Format:10"
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 21 Own, 3 Want
Price Guide:$36
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PRICE GUIDE
$36


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
AHank Williams With His Drifting CowboysLovesick BluesRate
BHank Williams With His Drifting CowboysNever Again (Will I Knock On Your Door)Hank WilliamsRate


Notes

A: Recorded Dec 22, 1948, E. T. Herzog Recording Studio, 811 Race St., Cincinnati, OH, mx: 49-S-6060.
B: Reissue of Sterling 201 B (Jan 1947); recorded Dec 11, 1946, Castle Recording Co., WSM Radio Station Studio, Nashville, TN [Hank Williams and The Country Boys], MGM mx: 48-S-24.

BB Jan 29, 1949, p. 25 (MGM ad)
BB Feb 26, 1949, p. 116 (Review)
BB C&W (Juke Box/Retail Folk Records Charts) #1 - Lovesick Blues (42 weeks), #6 - Never Again

Original 45 RPM issue as 45-8010

Images



Number: 1638228  THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: Js_and_Bs
Description: MGM 10352 A side label (original Feb. 1949 release)


Number: 1638229 
Uploaded By: Js_and_Bs
Description: MGM 10352 B side label (original Feb. 1949 release)


Number: 716327 
Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: MGM 10352 A side label (repress with Metrolite stars, Oct. 1949 or later)


Number: 716328 
Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: MGM 10352 B side label (repress with Metrolite stars, Oct. 1949 or later)


Number: 3169009 
Uploaded By: historyofcountrymusic
Description: B-side variant


Comments and Reviews
 
historyofcountrymusic
20th Dec 2022
 To complicate the discussion, I’ve added a Metrolite label pressing without the 4 stars.
 

 
xiphophilos
14th Oct 2020
 Thanks for the explanation, fixbutte! I've been wondering about these stars for a long time but never made the link to Metrolite before. I've now switched the image order.
 

 
fixbutte
13th Oct 2020
 @xiphophilos
The label set with two stars on each side of the MGM lion also refers to the "Metrolite Non-Breakable" material, described here as follows:
Quote:
Metrolite is an odd material. It's like a halfway point between shellac and vinyl. But whoever decided that it was "non-breakable" obviously never dropped one! I would describe it as "slightly less breakable" from shellac.

Metrolite was started in 1949, see here. As we can see from the label images on the database, it was first used exclusively for promo copies, and only from October 1949 on Metrolite pressings were noted on stock copy labels.

So you're right anyway and the label set with the stars belongs to a later pressing from October 1949 or after. I haven't found an album set though in which this record might have been placed. Moanin' The Blues, from September 1952 (see here), contained "Lovesick Blues" (on MGM 30636) but not "Never Again". A label image of MGM 30636-B, complete with the Metrolite note and the four stars, can be found there.
 

 
xiphophilos
17th Sep 2020
 Usually, MGM seems to have attached two stars to both sides of the MGM lion only in the 30000 series, which all seem to have been album releases.

This is the first 10000 series release I see that also has these stars attached - maybe because it came from an album set? I assume the second label version without the stars is the original singles release, but I don't know for sure.

Any comments / clarification would be appreciated.
 


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