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cyeaman

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Record collector since 1976.

Currently adding vigorously to my early jazz and swing-era shellac collection, but I enjoy all kinds of music. I also collect phonographs, and always have room for more machines. Music plays continuously at work and home. I am a cell biologist by day, but spend my off-hours collecting, listening, playing and reading about music, records and phonographs.

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cyeaman SUBS 18th Jan 2025		78 RPM Fat Man Robinson Quintet - Don't Drink / Lavender Coffin	"Lavender Coffin" appears to have been the hit side of this disc. Billboard shows it was tied for the ninth most played jukebox race record the week of May 21, 1949. This morbid little novelty was subsequently recorded by other artists including Lionel Hampton, Joe Thomas and Tex Beneke. This was Motif Record's first release, and the company promised jukebox operators that "money will drip like honey". Like so many other small labels, Motif appears to have folded little more than a year later and was last listed in Billboard in July 1950.
cyeaman SUBS 18th Jan 2025		78 RPM The Three Suns And The Sons Of The Pioneers - The Hokey Pokey / I Still Feel The Same About You	This seems like an unusual combination of artists. Now I'm interested in hearing these recordings.
cyeaman SUBS 19th Oct 2024		78 RPM Baron Lee And Blue Rhythm Boys - White Lightning / Rhythm Spasm	Great! Thanks, Mike.
cyeaman SUBS 18th Oct 2024		78 RPM Baron Lee And Blue Rhythm Boys - White Lightning / Rhythm Spasm	Maybe you can handle it the same way as "Lucky Millinder With Mills' Blue Rhythm Band", with Lucky Millinder as the main artist but a "see also" link to Mills Blue Rhythm Band. Discographies like Rust's list all of these under the Mills Blue Rhythm Band artist page, without distinguishing different people who directed the band at different times.
cyeaman SUBS 17th Oct 2024		78 RPM Baron Lee And Blue Rhythm Boys - White Lightning / Rhythm Spasm	Labels identify artist as "Baron Lee And Blue Rhythm Boys". Is there a way to merge releases credited to "Baron Lee And His Blue Rhythm Band" with those credited to "Baron Lee And Blue Rhythm Boys"? Even better, can these be associated with "Mills Blue Rhythm Band", which was essentially the same band?