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  2nd May 2024, 11:39 AM#1  REPORT  
Mike Wilson1

Musicologist
Member since Dec 2019
26 Points
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel !!!......What with promises of transfers to come of Turner Layton and Geraldo along with a commission with Kings College of 5 songs, I am down to the final 14 sides that I do not have from the period 1940 - 1949, no mean feat as that is almost 2700 records !!......I know I have asked before but if anyone has even just one of these, please let me know as the resource library is nearing completion.

Do You Care - Geraldo & His Orchestra Parlophone F 18889
You Are My Sunshine - Billy Cotton Rex R 10115
I Don't Want To Walk Without You - Joe Loss HMV BD 5742
You Walk By - Joe Loss HMV BD 5778
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes - Jay Wilbur Rex R 10187
Don't Ask Me Why - Joe Loss HMV BD 5838
Thinking About The Wabash - Joe Loss HMV BD 5838
My Favourite Dream - Billy Cotton Rex R 10217
My Favourite Dream - Eric Winstone HMV BD 5869
Just A Prayer Away - Joe Loss HMV BD 5895
A Friend Of Yours - Joe Loss HMV BD 5895
Let The Rest Of The World Go By - Joe Loss HMV BD 5905
Panda Walk - Billy Cotton Rex R 10236
Anniversary Waltz - Billy Cotton Rex R 10238

Alternately if anyone knows of any compilations where they may be found or sites that has them for sale please get in touch


  6th May 2024, 5:13 PM#2  REPORT  
danceband91

Member since Nov 2020
118 Points
At mister_tmg's request, here are the dates and chart positions which the Missing Charts book credits for these:

Parlo F-1889 -- 09 Feb 42 - 23 Feb 42 -- 27, 25, 24
Rex 10115 -- 04 May 42 - 29 Jun 42 -- 19, 15, 14, 12, 13, 16, 19, 26, 25
HMV BD-5742 -- 11 May 42 - 01 Jun 42 -- 22, 20, 18, 26
HMV BD-5778 -- 07 Dec 42 - 28 Dec 42 -- 23, 16, 14, 14
Rex 10187 -- 11 Oct 43 - 25 Oct 43 -- 28, 30, 30
HMV BD-5838 -- 10 Apr 44 - 05 Jun 44 -- 22, 15, 15, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20, 28
Rex 10217 -- 08 Jan 45 - 19 Feb 45 -- 25, 23, 21, 21, 26, 30, 30
HMV BD-5869 -- 15 Jan 45 - 29 Jan 45 -- 25, 24, 22
HMV BD-5895 -- 20 Aug 45 - 27 Aug 45 -- 28, 25
HMV BD-5905 -- 01 Oct 45 - 26 Nov 45 -- 19, 13, 10, 7, 8, 6, 9, 11, 17
Rex 10236 -- 03 Mar 47 - 31 Mar 47 -- 28, 27, 30, 30, 30
Rex 10238 -- 19 May 47 - 26 May 47 -- 27, 28


  6th May 2024, 5:53 PM#3  REPORT  
mister_tmg

Also on 78rpm
Member since Apr 2012
1118 Points
Thanks for adding this - so the Joe Loss record actually made the top 10, yet is rather rare these days.


  9th May 2024, 6:24 PM#4  REPORT  
Pridesale

Member since Mar 2013
793 Points
I am sure for any one week top ten was a low bar , even post WW2 VE Day. I wonder if a lot of Joe Loss (dance records) were disposed of when LP compliations came along, but then the tunes are missing of a lot of those compilations.


  10th May 2024, 12:47 AM#5  REPORT  
mister_tmg

Also on 78rpm
Member since Apr 2012
1118 Points
I wonder what sales figures of 78s were like during this era. I can imagine that many people threw out their old gramophone records, or the owners simply died, and then the records were got rid of.


  10th May 2024, 3:00 PM#6  REPORT  
Pridesale

Member since Mar 2013
793 Points
There must have been a lot of sales. My nearest antique shop (must have got them at auction) has at least 400 piled up desparate for someone with time to go through, they are not ALL Jimmy Young Decca ones), I got a few from a huge selection in a Charity Shop in Redruth 32 years ago picking some I wanted mainly as replacements for ones I had broken. Basically take the number of towns in the UK, assume three record shops per town and assume 10 sales per disc per shop and you wont be far off an average sale of any particular recording as a base line figure.


  10th May 2024, 3:33 PM#7  REPORT  
Mike Wilson1

Musicologist
Member since Dec 2019
26 Points
Pridesale wrote:
There must have been a lot of sales. My nearest antique shop (must have got them at auction) has at least 400 piled up desparate for someone with time to go through, they are not ALL Jimmy Young Decca ones), I got a few from a huge selection in a Charity Shop in Redruth 32 years ago picking some I wanted mainly as replacements for ones I had broken. Basically take the number of towns in the UK, assume three record shops per town and assume 10 sales per disc per shop and you wont be far off an average sale of any particular recording as a base line figure.

This is why I am still hoping that the ones I am looking for will still turn up.....They must be somewhere !!


  10th May 2024, 4:44 PM#8  REPORT  
mister_tmg

Also on 78rpm
Member since Apr 2012
1118 Points
Pridesale wrote:
There must have been a lot of sales. My nearest antique shop (must have got them at auction) has at least 400 piled up desparate for someone with time to go through, they are not ALL Jimmy Young Decca ones), I got a few from a huge selection in a Charity Shop in Redruth 32 years ago picking some I wanted mainly as replacements for ones I had broken. Basically take the number of towns in the UK, assume three record shops per town and assume 10 sales per disc per shop and you wont be far off an average sale of any particular recording as a base line figure.

There’s 1,186 towns now, so that would mean 35,580 copies were sold, based on the above.

Maybe a lot of 78s have simply been destroyed, ending up as rubbish?


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