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9th Dec 2015, 11:08 PM
	Appletree1 SUBS ILR Top 40 charts please! Member since Mar 2015 81 Points	I would like like to bring to the attention of Users of this forum to the excellent dating evidence that the book by Steve Waters called British Hit Singles 1940 to 1952 can bring to the dating of UK 78rpm records located here. This book of charts is different to the other charts dated after 1952. For it lists the amounts of records that were sent out to record shops in the UK. Which means it's possible to know which month a 78 was issued. Records back then were released on the start of each month, there doesn't seem to be a particular week they came out. In other words it tells us which month the main distribution of each record started. The book shows the label and cat number of the records. First of all it does show that are lot of records included in the book are not listed in this forum, though sometimes they can be found in the USA format. However they might not have the same sides to the record issued in the UK. I have been using this site to track down some of the records in the book. I am sad to report that 45worlds has the months and in some cases the year for certain tracks mostly wrong. I will endeavour to add footnotes to any records I find in the future with the wrong dates. Some people who have read the book can't believe how little some of the records and charts don't relate to the Sheet Music charts that the public would have known about at the time. However this might be due to the fact that the bloke that originally compiled these charts wasn't very good at listing the correct "A" side. For example in December 1948 the book lists Doris Day & Buddy Clark - Love Somebody Columbia DB2449 in the top ten. If you look at the Sheet Music charts you see no mention of "Love Somebody". But if you look at the flip of the record you see just Buddy Clark singing "All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart". Which was in the top ten of the Sheet Music Chart in December 1948. This getting the wrong side is very common in the book, also in December 48 he lists Tony Martin and "Ah, But It Happens". Which I suspect many of you won't know. But the other side of the record is Begin The Beguine - which most will know. I hope this will help in dating records on here.