78 RPM - Ken Griffin - You Can't Be True, Dear / Cuckoo Waltz - Rondo - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Ken Griffin
Label:	Rondo
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	R-128
Date:	Feb 1948
Format:	10"
Genre:	Pop
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	9 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Ken Griffin	You Can't Be True, Dear	arr. Ken Griffin	Rate
B	Ken Griffin	Cuckoo Waltz	Ken Griffin	Rate

Notes

A side (mx. U. 913) recorded at Universal Recording, Chicago, IL, September 1947.
B side (mx. U. 913) recorded at Universal Recording, Chicago, IL, September 1947.
(source)

One version says on the A side: "Recorded by special permission of the U.S. Attorney General under License No. E 1277" (as Alien Property, the copyright for "You Can't Be True, Dear" rested with the Alien Property Custodian, who had transferred title to it to the U.S. Attorney General on February 24, 1948. License E 1277 was granted on March 2, 1948).

Listed in J. F. Bard Co., Inc. ad in The Cash Box, February 24, 1948, page 20.

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Number: 740488

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Description: b side

Number: 914496

Uploaded By: Trainman
Description: Alternate label, side 1

Number: 914497

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Description: Alternate label side 2

Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 26th Nov 2023		An notorious court case concerning "You Can't Be True, Dear", called Biltmore Music Corporation and Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, As Successor to the Alien Property Custodian, Appellants, v. Robert W. Kittinger, Appellee, 238 F.2d 373 (9th Cir. 1956), lists the date of the license mentioned on the label. The case was filed and lost by the writers of the English lyrics, Julius F. Bard (Vice President of Rondo Records) and Dave Dreyer, against Robert W. Kittinger (President and General Manager of Chicago Recording Studios, Inc., producer of the Broadcast label, who had released an instrumental version of the song on Broadcast 460) for payment of royalties.



Trainman 13th Dec 2015		It's interesting that later, during the Columbia years, they built up such a backlog of tracks, that they were still issuing "New" Ken Griffin albums for several years after he had passed away!



xiphophilos 13th Dec 2015		Bryon Young writes of Rondo 128, "This record was probably heard by every American alive during the 1950s, since it was a staple in the carnival/fair/amusement park 'merry-go round' repertoire, as well as roller skating and ice skating rinks." Originally written in 1935 as "Du kannst nicht treu sein" by German composers Hans Otten and Gerhard Ebeler, the song became the object of a long drawn-out copyright lawsuit in the 1950s after Griffin's instrumental and a later dubbed-over vocal version sold more than 3,500,000 copies. More info on Bryon Young's site here. There's another useful site on "Ken Griffin - The Rondo Years" by Robert L. Campbell and Robert Pruter.



Trainman 13th Dec 2015		Added alternate label scans (different color and type face)