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40 year veteran of the pursuit of 78 records, jazz history. Retired insurance lawyer. Long time officer and director of the now defunct
Indianapolis Jazz Club. My discographic work can be seen in multiple label lists on the Online Discographical Project at 78discography. I have a humongous label photo archive (currently 188,000+ photos), but I don't own them and it would be inappropriate to post them here. I will back up positions privately with photos as needed. Biographical articles I wrote on trumpeter Bobby Hackett for Record Research and the IAJRC Journal were for many years the most comprehensive account of his career available in print. (See Bobby Hackett: His Life In Music by Bert Whyatt and George Hulme for the book that surpassed me.)

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slholzer 3rd Sep 2024		78 RPM Bob Thomas - Morning Will Come / Ten Thousand Years From Now	Per Allen Sutton's Pseudonyms on American Records (1892-1942), Bob Thomas is almost exclusively a pseudonym for Ernest Hare. There are several known exceptions, one of which is this record. It may be worth noting, however, that three of the known exceptions are by Vernon Dalhart.
slholzer 18th Aug 2024		78 RPM The Cross Roads Inn Orchestra - Let's Fall In Love / I Must Have That Man	Per the American Dance Band Discography, the B-side of the illustrated disc was made in new York on 5-Nov-1928. Mike Thomas' mgthomas.co.uk website assigns the identity of Paul Specht's orchestra to the Lanin Syncopators. In the ADBD, Rust was unable to mkare that determination and lists the band under its own name. Per Mike Thomas' mgthomas.co.uk website's Duophone list, there is an alternate version of Duophone D. 4045. One side of the alternate is identical to the A-side of the illustrated disc, credited to the Cross Roads inn Orchestra and featuring Let's Fall In Love. The other side of the alternate is credited to the Savoy Plaza Band and features Singing In The Rain. Per Thomas, the Cross Roads inn Orch. is Meyer Davis AHO on both versions. The Savoy Plaza Band is Cecil Norman AHO. British Dance Bands On Record advises the Norman side was made in London on 9-Oct-1929. The vocalist is id'd as Cavan O'Connor. Jazz Records (6th ED.) dates the Davis side to Nov. 13 or 14, 1928 in New York.
slholzer 18th Aug 2024		78 RPM Hal's Dixie Collegians - High Up On A Hill-Top / She's Funny That Way	Hal's Dixie Collegians are identified in the American Dance Band Discography and on Mike Thomas' mgthomas.co.uk website's Duophone listing as Hal Kemp AHO. The ADBD identifies the A-side vocalists as Hal Kemp, Saxie Dowell and Gus Mayhew. The B-side vocalist is reported as Skinny Ennis. Both sides were recorded in New York. The A-side is dated 28-Sep-1928. The B-side is dated c. 29-Nov-1928.
slholzer 18th Aug 2024		78 RPM The Home Towners - Tiger Rag / Jo-Anne	When Rust's American Dance Band Discography went to press (so many years ago), he listed the two tracks illustrated here on Duophone D-4034. When he went to press with Jazz Records (6th ed.) he still listed Tiger Rag on D-4034, but he had put in mx E-28657B (Do You? (That's All I Want to Know) as also on D-4034. Previously, he had listed that track as on Duophone D-4046 with no mention of D-4034. Now JR6 showed it as on both D-4034 and D-4046. The data listed in Mike Thomas' mgthomas.co.uk Duophone listing is consistent with Rust's original position as stated in the ADBD. Clearly, this raises a question whether there is an alternate version of Duophone D. 4034 or not. As we know, it is virtually impossible to prove a negative, but if there issuch a creature, somebody must a copy. Can anybody help?
slholzer 18th Aug 2024		78 RPM Bert Firman - All By Yourself In The Moonlight / Heaven For Two	Per Rust's Jazz Records (6th Ed.), these two sides were recorded in London on 2-Jan-1929.