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Artist: Lowell Fulson's Combo Label:   Swing Time Country: USA Catalogue: 196 Date: Mar 1950 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  8 Own, 1 Wants Price Guide: $30 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lowell Fulson's Combo	Everyday I Have The Blues	Chatman	9.0  Rate
B	Lowell Fulson's Combo	Rocking After Midnight	Lowell Fulson	10.0  Rate

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Lowell Fulson's Combo

CB March 25, 1950, R&B regional charts (Hot on Central Ave. in Los Angeles, #6 )
BB May 27, 1950 Best-Selling Retail R&B Records
BB June 3, 1950 Advance R&B Record Releases / review / Most Played Juke Box R&B records
BB June 3, 1950, p. 111: R&B Record Reviews

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han enderman 22nd Sep 2023		Swing Time 196 - Variants added. The samples show the first pressing design: credit to Combo, and the word 'Featuring' is absent. Apparently a small first pressing had been made before the samples were made, as the title of the B-side is different (... At Midnight) ! For the 2nd printing, 'Featuring' is added. Type #3 has a new design, with the credit above the title, and omits the description at 3 and adds the time. Type #4 has a different font, clearly visible in the catnr. - A last image (of 196-A #3) shows the record number in the runout: DB-196-A at 4, indicating it was an existing Down Beat master, made before the start of Swing Time.
han enderman 22nd Sep 2023		Swing Time 196-A - Samples added. For the first Swing Time issues, remaining white & red 'Swing Records' promo labels were used, overprinted black.
rhythmdog 21st Sep 2023		I have to guess that for unknown reasons, Jack Lauderdale either held back both this and the next release on the label for about a year, or else he just used older numbers. The two are way out of sequence - but there are lots of others out of order in his family of labels. The 45, which likely wasn't pressed until much later since the earliest known 45 on the label is from March 1951, shows the artist as "Lowell Fulson", not "Lowell Fulson's Combo", so I think most likely the first way this came out was "Lowell Fulson's Combo".
fixbutte 11th Dec 2018		Digging deeper in Cash Box, I found "Everyday I Have The Blues" charted for the first time on #6 of the regional Los Angeles R&B chart (Hot on Central Ave. in Los Angeles) in the March 25, 1950 issue, climbing up to #1 on April 8 and staying there until May 13, for six weeks in total. On reconsideration I now propose March 1950 as release month, supported by the fact that on the March 18, 1950 R&B charts in Cash Box still only a previous Fulson record was listed, "Western Union Blues" (with the higher cat# 201 though, see also my earlier comments about the erratic numbering of this label).
fixbutte 11th Dec 2018		Thanks for adding the label variant. Coming back to the release date discussion of some years ago, I have found an advert in Cash Box of April 8, 1950 for this record "by Lowell Fulson and his new combo". So we can assume an April 1950 release. From the advert I also guess that the Lowell Fulson's Combo labels belong to the original version.
edlongus SUBS 11th Dec 2018		Label variant scans added. My copy shows the artist as Lowell Fulson (minus the Combo).
fixbutte 10th Dec 2015		Good that you fixed the catalog numbers. You're definitely right with your comparison to King's AA/A sides. Now they are like they used to be (and were originally entered) before a fellow mod edited them all. Incidentally, this is a record that Billboard did not review very soon after its release because it had already made the R&B charts some weeks before. I know of many records from smaller labels that were reviewed many weeks and even months after their release. Then again, I don't believe that this strong record here had been on the market for several months without being noticed by Billboard.
xiphophilos 10th Dec 2015		The fact that Billboard usually reviewed records very soon after their release points to May 1950 as the release date, and this also fits with the catalog number sequence better. In addition, Billboard shows that they, at least, understand the catalog nr. to be 196, not 196A. It seems to me that Swing Time did something comparable to King Records' AA and A sides, only they called their sides A+ and A. Have fixed this on the entire label. The entire history of the label is discussed at http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/SwingT.html
fixbutte 11th Mar 2014		Looking at the Billboard sources, one has to note that the listing in the Best-Selling Retail R&B Records charts (1st week, number 5) was for the Week Ending May 19, 1950. So it was not released later than early May, most probably earlier. Like often, the Advance R&B Record Releases section in Billboard (published on Jun 3, 1950 for this record) makes no sense.
fixbutte 11th Mar 2014		I had always assumed that this record was released around May 1950. Catalog numbers of Jack Lauderdale's record companies (Down Beat, Swing Beat, Swing Time etc.) are erratic though (cat# 196 would fit in well with a 1949 release year), and recording dates or matrix numbers are mostly missing.
LaurenceD SUBS 11th Mar 2014		While Gérard Herzhaft's Encyclopedia of the Blues dates this at 7/49, Billboard and Galen Gart's ARLD suggest mid-1950.
BigBadBluesMan 23rd Dec 2013
BigBadBluesMan 23rd Dec 2013

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