78 RPM - Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe) - Beautiful Brown Eyes / Sittin' On Top Of The World - Decca - USA

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Artist:	Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	6079
Date:	Jan 1943
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)	Beautiful Brown Eyes	Arthur Smith	Rate
B	Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)	Sittin' On Top Of The World		Rate

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A Personnel:
Joe Shelton (lead vocals, mandolin); Bob Shelton (harmony vocals, guitar); Curly Fox (fiddle).

B Personnel:
Bob Shelton (harmony vocal), Joe Shelton (mandolin); Jimmy Thomason (fiddle); Merle Shelton (guitar); Billy McNew (steel guitar); Grundy "Slim" Harbert (bass).

A side (mx. 90262, take A) recorded Chicago, IL, August 20, 1935.
B side (mx. 92041, take A) recorded Rice Hotel, Houston, TX, April 7, 1940.

Billboard, Feb. 6, 1943, page 25: This Week's New Records.

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xiphophilos 11th Jun 2021		Makes sense!



fixbutte 11th Jun 2021		The previous date (Oct 19, 1942) was probably taken from Cary Ginell's Decca Hillbilly Discography 1927-45, where it says under Release Dates: "In the Decca label copy books, one piece of information included on each page was a date. This date referred to that time when the information on the record label was printed. In comparing this date with Decca advertisements showing new releases, it can be determined that the records were released within a month after the date shown on the label copy pages. In some cases, the labels were corrected (usually to change the composer credit). When this was done, an additional page immediately followed the original page, showing the correction and indicating a new date. It has not yet been determined whether or not actual records bearing the original uncorrected label were ever released." In this case, the original date for Decca 6079 was "10/19/42" and it was changed to "1/7/43". In view of this and the timeframe in the Billboard issue (Released January 30 thru February 6, 1943), I consider a late January 1943 release more likely than a February 1943 release and have changed it like that.



xiphophilos 10th Jun 2021		Fixed the release date, added personnel and places of recording per M. Ruppli, The Decca Labels: A Discography. Thanks for the excellent documentation!



benchwarrant17 10th Jun 2021		Uploaded page 25 of "The Billboard" magazine Feb 6, 1943 See section "This Week's Records" released Jan 30 - Feb 6 1943 This record is listed under "Folk Records", which is how C&W was described at this time. There is an additional supporting section on Decca record releases This is pretty solid evidence for when this record was released Of course, there is always a possibility this was a re-release of the Oct 1942 issue Below are the matrix numbers and recording dates of the 2 sides SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD C90262-A Recorded Aug 20, 1935 Chicago, IL BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES C92041=A Recorded April 7, 1940 source Decca Records Interesting, this was during musicians strike, so Decca was digging into it's catalog to release records. That's why recording dates are so old. Their last session for Decca was April 26, 1941, according to the records I have I found this release Decca 5190 I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World / Four Or Five Times - 03-36 Also, their next recording session was for King Records in 1946 My information may have some holes in it, but the Decca info looks pretty solid, using multiple sources to verify as best I can. Love ancient Country music from the 1930s-40s

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Canada - Decca - 1943