78 RPM - The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man / I Can't Escape From You - Federal - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	The Dominoes
Label:	Federal
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	12022
Date:	Apr 1951
Format:	10"
Genre:	Doo Wop
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	28 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	$125
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PRICE GUIDE

$125

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	The Dominoes	Sixty Minute Man	Ward, Marks	10.0 Rate
B	The Dominoes	I Can't Escape From You	Ward, Marks	8.5 Rate

Notes

CB May 5, 1951, p. 15 (Jazz 'n Blues Reviews)
CB May 12, 1951, p. 15 (King/Federal ad; #1 Music Operators in Oakland, Cal.)
BB May 12, 1951, p. 31; May 26, 1951, p. 30 (King/Federal ads)
BB May 26, 1951, p. 32 (R&B Juke Box charts - Based on reports received May 16, 17 and 18)

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Comments and Reviews


BigBadBluesMan 11th Sep 2021



clydeactor 24th Feb 2021		After doing some research, I discovered that Federal Records was owned and operated by King Records. Prior to 1953, King Records used the 78 RPM equalization curve with Turnover = 500 and Rolloff = -16 (NAB). King began using the RIAA curve in 1953.



clydeactor 24th Feb 2021		Thank you for your response. I am aware that the RIAA became the standard in 1955, but I wanted to know what specific CURVE was used by Federal Records in 1951. I own a H.H. Scott 121-C preamplifier and wanted guidance on what the Turnover and Rolloff settings are for this disc. Mahalo & Aloha!



pathefoon 24th Feb 2021		In 1951, the RIAA curve was not yet the standard recording and playback technique for the record industry and consumer audio equipment. This was not established until 1955. Before that the Federall company must have used another curve.



clydeactor 24th Feb 2021		Does anyone know the 78 RPM equalization for this shellac? Did Federal Records use the RIAA curve in 1951? Or did Federal use different Turnover and Rolloff settings (AES, Columbia, Decca, Flat, etc)? Thank you very much in advance.



mickey rat 24th Apr 2019		Tracks recorded 30Dec50, NYC, and 26Jan51, Cincinnati. Bill Brown and Clyde McPhatter lead vcls. Looks like Billy Ward copyrighted this song early under his own name. The March 5 copyright is the official King/Federal one via Armo, the new publishing imprint shared by Syd Nathan with Ralph Bass. The really good thing about Syd Nathan's copyrights via all his thirty odd in-house imprints is that they often reflect fairly accurately (usually within a few weeks) the actual release date of the record. Every recorded track on his various labels was allocated a matrix/master number at time of recording or acquisition but only tracks actually released were filed for copyright and that was done at, or near, time of release, even if years after the recording date. SIXTY MINUTE MAN; w, m & © William Ward 2Feb51 EU228053 SIXTY MINUTE MAN; w & m William Ward & Rose Marks © Armo Music Corp. 5Mar51 EU231287 Sixty minute man; by William Ward [and] Rose Marks. [For voice and piano] 40c © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 1Oct51; EP58718. [sheet music] I CAN'T ESCAPE FROM YOU; w & m William Ward & Rose Marks © Armo Music Corp. 28Mar51 EU233889



fixbutte 14th Jun 2017		Added an A-side label with a hyphen in the title ("Sixty-Minute Man", like on the YouTube video) and made it the main image because it probably belongs to the first commercial 78 rpm pressing. Anyway this variant doesn't exist for the 45 rpm issue which was only released several weeks later.



fixbutte 13th Jun 2017		You're right, RadioAl. Considering the date of the Cash Box review (with song durations, apparently from the Dee-Jay Special promo) and the regional chart action in early May 1951 (I wasn't able to find that page though), an April 1951 release seems reasonable. I have adjusted the notes and corrected the release month accordingly.



RadioAl ● 13th Jun 2017		Following up on fixbutte's research, Cash Box picked up on Sixty Minute Man early - it was reviewed in the May 5, 1951 issue (p. 15) and in the same issue was reported as #3 by Oakland, CA jukebox operators (p. 17). The record must have begun reaching jukeboxes in late April.



fixbutte 12th Jun 2017		Changed release month for this issue from March 1951 (what Marv Goldberg proposed) to May 1951 because this was the first month in which it was advertised (no mentions of Federal 12022 in the King/Federal ads of April 1951, in contrast to Federal 12001). The 45 rpm actually came out later although not in July but in June 1951 (first advertised in Billboard of June 23, 1951, p. 29).



RadioAl ● 7th Jul 2015		Not issued on 45 rpm until July, 1951.



BigBadBluesMan 8th Dec 2013

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