78 RPM - Frankie Laine - In The Wee Small Hours / You're A Character, Dear - Bel-Tone - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Frankie Laine
Label:	Bel-Tone
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	S-0255 / S-0256
Date:	15 Aug 1945
Format:	10"
Genre:	Vocal
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Frankie Laine	In The Wee Small Hours	Elliott, James	Rate
B	Wini Beatty	You're A Character, Dear	Elliott, Fascinato	Rate

Notes

Frankie Laine (vocal); Wini Beatty (piano, vocal); Gene Sargent (electric guitar, vocal); prob. Mildred V. Christy (a.k.a. Vivien Garry) (bass).

A mx: 1A-2327.
B mx: 1A 2326.
Recorded Hollywood, CA, ca. July 1945.(source)

Billboard, Aug. 11, 1945, p. 14: Bel-Tone ad, announcing release for Aug. 15.
Billboard, Sept. 1, 1945, p. 20: Bel-Tone ad.

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Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 24th May 2024		Fixed the matrix numbers and titles. In terms of the recording place, I followed Robert L. Campbell and Robert Pruter's Gold Seal discography. The background vocals on "That's Liberty" from the same session were by a group called "The Hollywoodsmen", which seems to support Hollywood rather than New York as the place of recording.



han enderman 19th May 2024		Bel-Tone 0255-0256 - images added of 1st & 2nd edition - cat.nr, track details & notes have to be corrected. I have images of 2 copies of the original release (with white label Beatty), which thus is as described below by slholzer & rubedoowop. But a later pressing/printing has red labels on both sides; images from archive, which also has the music (on archive, the link to the reverse is lower on the webpage). It seems that the record as advertised was never issued.



mister_tmg 19th May 2024		This was his first commercially issued 78, and features his first recordings, cut in 1945. Prague Frank's discography of Frankie Laine says the tracks were recorded in New York, although this link says the location was Hollywood. See Gold Seal website.



rubedoowop SUBS 24th Mar 2024		I have the 78 on Bel-Tone and slholzer is correct - the flip side IS 'You're a Character, Dear" by Wini Beatty. The label is solid gray with a plain block print logo, as if the label was an afterthought. B-side cat# is S-0256 - A-side is exactly like the related photos above.



xiphophilos 22nd Nov 2017		A side (as re-issued on Gold Seal): B side:



xiphophilos 22nd Nov 2017		Switched A & B sides per matrix numbers and Bel-Tone ads in Billboard. "Brother, That's Liberty" was copyrighted in 1943 by Bud Freeman, Arny Freeman, and Frank Laine.(source). On labels, it apparently only ever appeared as "That's Liberty".



Alan KILLEN of Liverpool 21st Nov 2017		According to the Bel-Tone advertisement in Billboard (Aug 11) "In The Wee Small Hours" was scheduled as the "B" side of "Brother, That's Liberty" for release on August 15, 1945 as # 0255, with # 0256 advertised as being; Wini Beatty (Side A) ... Gene Sargent (Side B). The September 1st issue carried the same info re - #0255 & #0256 as .. "GOING BIG EVERYWHERE !" ... However, it would appear that on second thought someone realised that if the Laine tracks - matrix #2324 (B,TL) and # 2327 (ITWSH) were issued separately backed by matrix #2325 & 2326 they would sell TWO discs rather than ONE!! Consequently, matrix #2327 (ITWSH) appeared on S-0255; while matrix #2324 (B,TL) appeared on S-0256



slholzer 11th Jun 2017		I have scans of a disc in my database on which the illustrated side (S-0255) is backed with S-0256 ("You're A Character, Dear" by Wini Beatty, comps Elliott, Fascinato mx 1A-2326).

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USA - Gold Seal - 1948