78 RPM - Joyce Frazer - I Went To Your Wedding / Moon Above Malaya - Columbia - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Joyce Frazer
Label:	Columbia
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	D.B. 3191
Date:	Nov 1952
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Joyce Frazer	I Went To Your Wedding	Jessie Mae Robinson	10.0 Rate
B	Joyce Frazer	Moon Above Malaya	Turner, Kennedy	8.0 Rate

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With orchestra conducted by Ray Martin

A mx: CA 22323; B mx: CA 22348.
Recorded ca. mid-October 1952.

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mister_tmg 6th Mar 2024		I would suggest eBay and Discogs.



Tamboriver 18th Jan 2020		Joyce Frazer was my Auntie (mums sister) was indeed married to Roy Berry. A very gifted singer. My dad ran a recording studio at 4 Denmark st 1946ish. He also played piano. One day he got a call to play piano for Joyce for an audition at Dreamland ballroom Margate. She bought along her sister Audrey (my mum) and that’s where they met. Joyce worked a bit with Benny Hill as a Ladybird. Also pianist Alan Claire. Later in life she lived off royalties from jingles she recorded in the fifties. Dad said she had perfect pitch. You could ask her to sing an A 440hz any time any day and she could nail it. Graduate of the LRAM also. Passed away in Gloucestershire sometime in the eighties. How can I get hold of her 45/78 recordings anyone?



Colin Pike59 16th Jan 2020		According to record label listings that I have seen, Joyce Frazer made another two records for Columbia. DB 3318 - "This Is Heaven" c/w "Say You're Mine Again," which is where the sheet music cover comes in, and DB 3362 - "My Love, My Life, My Happiness" c/w "Nobody Asked Me To Dance."



recordman46 26th Jun 2019		Joyce Fraser's real name was Joyce Berry at the time of this record's release. She was the wife of song-plugger Roy Berry. The record was recorded in mid-October '52.



xiphophilos 29th Aug 2018		Joyce Frazer released at least one more record with the same label, Columbia DB 3230 (singing with David Carey on "I'm Praying To St. Christopher" / "When I Give My Heart"). For a while in the early 1950s, she sang with a vocal group, The Keynotes, after their previous girl singer, Pearl Carr, had left that group.(source) Here's a piece of sheet music with Joyce Frazer's picture: https://www.sheetmusicwarehouse.co.uk/20th-century-songs-i/im-praying-to-st-christopher-featuring-joyce-frazer/. See also this sheet music cover: Say You're Mine Again.



borninthe50s 28th Aug 2018		Review Joyce Frazer, who sounds quite young, has a strong clear voice with perfect diction, and she delivers the romantic ballad "I Went To Your Wedding" with conviction, to a lush orchestration. This song, penned by Jessie Mae Robinson, was recorded by many artists, including Patti Page, Alma Cogan, Dawn Barraclough, Florence Wright, Sammy Kaye, Dick James, Steve Gibson and The Red Caps, Spike Jones, and Hank Snow. Patti Page scored a no. 1 hit with it in 1952, while Steve Gibson and The Red Caps' version stalled at no. 20 the same year, and then in 1953 Spike Jones' comedy take on it also reached no. 20. Joyce Frazer's version is at least as good as any of the others, but unfortunately as a new unknown singer she lost out. The flip side is a slow atmospheric ballad, in the style of the "Japanese Farewell Song," and here again Frazer displays her impressive vocal range. The track is enhanced by Ray Martin's intricate arrangement incorporating oriental sound effects. 35 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Klepsie 12th Oct 2013		Date from this listing, which shows that no less than ten versions of the A side, including Patti Page's US #1 version (on Oriole), were released by UK record labels in October and November 1952 (though the tax stamp shows this copy was still in dealer stock as of April 1953). This high level of competition may explain why none of them hit the newly-created pop charts.

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