78 RPM - Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman (Laughing Song) / Laughter And Lemons - Columbia - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Charles Penrose
Label:	Columbia
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	F.B. 1184 / FB.1184 / FB. 1184
Date:	1935
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	14 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Charles Penrose	The Laughing Policeman (Laughing Song)	Billie Grey	Rate
B	A Cornettist, Charles Penrose And The Boy With The Lemon	Laughter And Lemons	Billie Grey	Rate

Notes

Side A - Laughing Comedian with Orchestra.

Images

Number: 420006 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: Redpunk Description: Side A Label	Number: 420007 Uploaded By: Redpunk Description: Side B Label	Number: 434534 Uploaded By: GeneRobertson Description: A side alternative label design	Number: 434535 Uploaded By: GeneRobertson Description: B side alternative label design
Number: 2325410 Uploaded By: Redpunk Description: Side A Variant	Number: 2325411 Uploaded By: Redpunk Description: Side B Variant

Comments and Reviews


Redpunk 11th Jul 2020		Added label scans with more text at base etc.



xiphophilos 3rd Dec 2018		This is what Roger Beardsley in an essay "Speeds and Pitching of 78rpm Gramophone Records" said about Columbia's Speed 80: "Mention of the great Dame Clara brings us to the question of Columbia speeds. For many years their labels specified 'speed 80' even though the generally recognized speed was 78. Those of Dame Clara's records made during Columbia's 80rpm era seem to play at anything between 76 and 83rpm. It is most unlikely that only her records varied in this way - my experience suggests that others were equally variable. So much for Columbia's standard."



Muswell8 2nd Dec 2018		I believe the Columbia 4014 was speed 80, not 78.



scrough 8th Aug 2016		Columbia had the rights to both recordings - the acoustic recording of 1922 was on Regal G 7816, which was Columbia's cheap label, and the 1926 electric on Columbia 4014. What's probably confusing people is that this issue is in the F.B. series. The numeric 10" catalogue number series that Columbia 4014 was issued in ended in 1930, so this disc is just a re-issue of 4014 in the available catalogue series of the time.



Whyperion SUBS 8th Aug 2016		Although when His Master's Voice and Columbia's Holding Companies (re) merged to form effectively EMI, and Regal and Zonophone being their 'Budget' labels (see elsewhere on worlds and net for who was who), the differing Matrix Number here suggests, as per Scrough's 6th Feb 2013 comment, that this is the 1926? electrically recorded version.



Redpunk 26th Apr 2016		Probably not as the successor to Regal was Regal Zonophone and I would presume that Columbia would not have the rights to that recording. Also with advances in recording technology I would expect it to be redone. If I can I'll dig out both copies and listen to them back to back.



RecordDragon 25th Apr 2016		Is this A-side the same recording as G 7816?



Juke Jules SUBS 27th Jan 2016		Laughter And Lemons is less well-known than Laughing Policeman but the joke persists down the decades



Whyperion SUBS 23rd Dec 2013		And longer , reproduced (A Side at least) on Columbia EP (unfortunately probably 're-mastered' from a 78 as the amount of background noise on my EP was quite bad) -unless that too had been played many times over.



GeneRobertson 14th Dec 2013		This must have remained on catalogue for at least 20 years after its original release in 1926.



lorangrecords SUBS 3rd Apr 2013		Added year of release from Columbia label discography.

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Linked Releases

UK - Columbia - 1926

Australia - Columbia - 1926