Duke Ellington - Creole Love Call - St Louis Blues

Duke Ellington - Creole Love Call (Concert Version) 12 Inch COL BX11264
Duke Ellington - St Louis Blues (Handy) 12 Inch COL BX11263

Some More finds from my lost 12 Inch 78's this one's from 1932 and a UK pressing to boot.
St Louis Blues is odd as it features Bing Crosby on vocals!





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Frankie Laine - Sunny Side Of The Street

Frankie Laine - Sunny Side Of The Street (McHugh-Fields) Mercury

While working "On-Air" and also in the same building as a Oldies radio station. Ive heard 1000's of hours of the "popular" Frankie Lanie. It was a surprise when i ran this disc and it swung and how about Laine's Vocal - sweeet.




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Les Paul - Brazil

Les Paul - Brazil (Ary Barroso) CAPITOL MX42014

Les Paul created the "multi track" method of recording years before anyone else thought of doing it.
not only does he play all the Guitars but he uses different speeds to layer a true masterpiece,
I quite like the instrumental Les Paul cuts. This one again from a "played to death" CAPITOL pressing.


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Nat King Cole - That's My Girl CAPITOL

Nat king Cole in a Swingy mood with That's My girl. One of Nat's rarer recordings.
Its an uptempo number Written by Ray Ellington (yes That Ray from The Goon Show)
If you know of Ray Ellington's style of Arranging you will hear it in the "middle eight".
Ray also performed this song on a couple of Goon show's as well.

Again a rather worn disc ( I had 2 pressings to play with and each was as worn as each other!)

And I'm still experimenting with Photographing the labels from these discs, I've tried different lights, moving the light source around all over to get that pesky "gold" lettering of the Capitol and HMV discs. Oh and my flatbed wont scan em either!!.. any ideas?

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Josephine Tumminia - The Blue Danube - La Capinera DECCA

Some (to me) unusual recordings from a opera singer coupled with a big band !!
Its Josephine Tumminia with the band of Jimmy Dorsey.
Ive been going though some of my 12 inch 78's which were relegated to the back of a cupboard as i though them uninteresting, well was i in for a shock when i spun this one. Its just too hard to explain but its very good! Again from my own collection of junk shop discs which are not by all means "perfect" pressings. Again 3 versions my "good" version, one with too much NR and one fake stereo copy.




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Ward Leopold - Here's Hooey Regal Zonophone

A comedy disc now. From (I think) Comedians from Aussie radio.
Every time i see someones 78 collection I always come across several of these. It must have been the "must have" disc in the early 40's. Although some comedy from the 40's does suffer with age some of the material here is surprisingly fresh!

I also have the Coronation edition and Here's Hooey 2 as well for those interested and they are also on the 12 inch type of 78.
There is no "fake stereo" version of this as there was no point!

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Ben Light - Perfidia Capitol

This is from the age of the cocktail pianist the likes of Carmen Cavallaro, Eddie Duchin, Frankie Carle and the list could go on.
This I assume was most likely recorded in the late 40's and its a surprising arrangement too.
Check out the machine gun speed of his playing!
This is one of my own discs that I've kind of played to death before i transferred it.
Oh and I don't have the disc on-hand to get a pic of the label so I've faked (rather shoddily) one



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Muggsy Spanier - Hesitating Blues

Muggsy Spanier - Hesitating Blues

Some Trad jazz Not much to say here but again a standard transfer and a quick 30 second restore.
I don't get off much on trad jazz, but sometimes i get in the mood and want to hear some.
i have heaps of Muggy's 78's because of a Auction sale of 78's when i got heaps of his and other TRAD artists and some that i really wanted. so enjoy the sounds and tell me what you think..

the B side will be up shortly

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Again 3 versions Good - Too Much Noise Reductgion and a Fake Stereo taken from the GOOD version. and Please Play with your treble settings too get the "best Sound" and I State again that i restore these discs from "mostly" beaten up 78's that i bought at a aution 10 years ago. they are commercial pressings and have been (for all intesion purposes) been played a lot and have heaps of noise!!)

Woody Herman - Five O'Clock Whistle

Glenn Miller recorded a version of this song in the same week at the Herman band. the woddy Herman version is hard to come by so listen as woody solos all over the place and notice how his solos (at this time) sound so much like Tex Beneke's solos or is that just me. I don't know the singers name but she swings much more than Marion Hutton 's version with the miller band.





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and remember to use your top end or Treble boost/cut for the full effect.
I restore these discs with my treble at 75%, If you listen with a "Flat" EQ it might sound muffled
so please "play with your EQ" for the desired effect

Tommy Dorsey - Boogie Woogie

Although the Piano style boogie woogie style had been knocking around for years it was the band of Tommy Dorsy and of course Sy Olivers Arraignment of Pinetop Smith orig Tune that had it all happen again in the early 40's.. This is one of the TD band's Seminal hits. but always the transfers have been over compressd with the dynamic range squessed out of it.. have a spin with this transfer. Remember its from a 1cent 78 bought about 20 years ago at a junk type shop. Not the kind of disc you would take for a "proper" Transfer. but her the full dynamic and surprisingly the frequency! now hear for the 1st time the guitar strumming away. !



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The Quintette of the Hot Club of France

The Quintette of the Hot Club of France -

Solitude (Ellington) Recorded 21-04-1937 HMV Paris
When Day Is Done (De Sylva) Recorded 22-04-1937 HMV Paris

Not much to say about the talents of Steph and Django. I'll let the music speak for itself.
I've always liked the hot club recordings but always with the a little goes a long way,
most transfers of the hot club recordings are pretty sub standard. yep i even hate the mosac ones of a few years ago. (good clean preessings they had to work on by the sounds of em but WAY toooo much NR)
so here is a well played disc found at a junk shop years ago that had spent most of it's life without a sleeve. BUT STILL. it beats the rest it its aural brillance.
and the stereo fakery ive made up works well


Oh and remember that I restore these with the Treble on my rig turned way up. so if you want to "hear" more out of these and all my recording play around with your treble control!




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The Brothers Four - Beatles Songbook

Here's another weird album long since forgotten

The Brothers Four singing the Beatles hits (must have been '65 with all the cool Rubber Soul Songs)


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Lionel Hampton - Altitude

Lionel Hampton - Altitude

In the style of the Benny Goodman sextete we have the Lionel Hampton sextete. Is that Snuff Smith On violin?




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Bill Snyder - Harpsi-Boogie

Bill Snyder Harpsi- Boogie

I Don't Know If Les Paul Was first but this is defiantly in his multitrack speed up style

get some boogie into you Harpsichord style!

From a rather Noisy 78!!

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Larry Clinton - Jeepers Creepers

Larry Clinton - Jeepers Creepers
Vocal Ford Leary
HMV Australian Pressing MX OA028950

Here's a Quick restoration!! Now I'm getting used to my new "system" This one took 34 seconds to restore!!

And another 2 mins to make the stereo and the TMNR version and another Min to render all the Flacs Mp3!

Its a top version of the song with a late 30's feel to it


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David Rose - Harlem Noctune Woody Herman on sax (Hagen& Rodgers)

Here's a real rarity!!

Its the Orch of David rose with special guest Woddy Herman on Sax duties!

I was pretty surprised when i was looking though some David rose 78's and spied Woody's name, I Nearly went past it thinking i was mistaken.

On a MGM 78 and as you may know MGM 78's were notoriously noisy!!

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George Trevare - I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover

George Trevare again this time with his Sothern cross Seven

I don't know the dates , so could someone help please?

Vocal By Johnny Wade

I Have A few 78's by his Sothern Cross Seven which will be coming soon.

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Bob Crosby - Tea For Two

Here is the brilliant Piano of Bob Zurke backed with the Bob Crosby Band.

I haven't come across many of MR Zurkes recordings with Bob Crosby others are Skaters Waltz and Eye Opener both top tunes and due to make an appearance here soon



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Fats Waller and his Continental Rhythm

A full 78 from Mr Waller and his Continental Rhythm

These tracks I believe, Were recorded in London in 1938 (someone help me with the dates!)

They are like his US recording but with a Violin as well , Enjoy!

Thanks goes to Mr. LF Barfe for the info below

The Fats Waller sessions with his Continental Rhythm took place at the EMI Abbey Road studios on 21 August 1938. Personnel was: Dave Wilkins (tpt); George Chisholm (tmb); Alfie Kahn (clt & tenor sax); Ian Sheppard (tenor sax); Fats Waller (piano and celeste); Alan Ferguson (guitar); Len Harrison (bass); Edmundo Ros (drums). His recordings on the Abbey Road Compton organ are worth hearing too.

Blimey George Chisolm and Edmundo Ros Wierd!!


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The Al Duffy Four

Here's some swinging tunes rarther like the Hot club of france but with some classical motif's thrown in for good mesure.

I Don't have Lable Scanns for these, I transfered 100's of discs a few years ago and backed up the "RAW" dubs sevral times but the Label "photos" (I used and still do use a Digital Camera as those pesky HMV labels with the gold lettering never come out well on a digital Scanner.

This Was (from memory ) on a red DECCA label. Here is both sides of the 78!

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Flacs will be a-coming

Flac for those who don;t know is a format rather like mp3 but with a difference. It's lossless which means it's the same digital information in the original wav file. nothing is compressed (sound wise)

all you need are the right codecs on your computer to enjoy these and remember Flacs are Superior to the mp3's.

And my mp3 fans don't worry all future posts will have mp3 as well as a FLAC option.

so over the next day I will be editing my original posts to include a FLAC option. ive already done one so have yourself a gander below

Charlie Barnett - Rockin In Rhythm (Ellington) HMV OA051532

Charlie Barnett again and his Arragnment of Duke Ellington's Rockin In Rhythm

Not bad Not bad at all. on the B side there is another Duke number Merry Go Round. Which ill get on here at some point

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Milt Herth and his Trio - Huckelberry Duck

Ive got a few Milt Herth discs and most are pretty swingy !
This one has some Hammond lick and a nice Honky Tonk type riff
In time and if anyone's interested i may post some more of Milt
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Artie Shaw - Cross Your Heart

Some of the best and most innovative music to come from the Artie Show outfit were the Gramcery 5 sessions which started in 1940, Bands were going though a "band within a band" phase so naturally Artie had his own.

I really love the recording of Cross Your Heart, but all the transfers that I've ever heard have been "Stock standard" mid 50's RCA transfers with loads of reverb/slapback. which i hate!
I've always wanted to hear a Clean version of this one and was surprised when A reader to this blog lent me his 78 of it. its a well worn disc but i think you will agree that there's more "Top end" in this than any transfer about. the whole arrangement is now so stark and contemporary without the awful reverb, It's like another Tune!!

It Was Recorded on the 3rd Of September 1940


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Edgar Hayes - Help Me

Bit of everything in the arragement some vibes and swiunging troms

Here's a little info about the man from the net

Edgar Hayes will be forever associated with his one big 1938 hit record: his cocktail lounge, tinkling piano style rendition of Carmichael's "Stardust". The flip-side was his version of Glenn Miller's hit tune "In The Mood".

After his studies at Fisk and Wilberforce Universities, he joined the Fess Williams group. In 1924, he formed his own group, in Ohio, called the 'Blue Grass Buddies', and the Hayes Orchestra was booked into the "Ritz Cafe" in Cleveland Ohio.

In 1931, after having worked with a number of different bands all through the 1920's, he wound up as the pianist-arranger with the Mills Blue Ribbon Band. Three years later, Lucky Millinder took over leadership of the band, and three years after that, Hayes left to form his own fine 14 piece orchestra.

From 1937 to 1941, Hayes fronted this band, which was originally formed using many of Lucky Millinder's ex-members. Among these could be found Joe Garland on tenor sax; Shelton Hemphill on trumpet, Elmer James on bass, and Crawford Wetherington on alto sax. All these men had been with Hayes in the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. A young drummer named Kenny Clarke, later to become a 'bebop' musician, was sparking the band's rhythm section. In time, a young Dizzy Gillespie was to be heard blowing his trumpet with the band."

Nice little tune !!

Usual 3 versions

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Charlie Barnett - Southern Fried

Does Mr Barnett Swing|? Oh yes he does. I was shocked this wasn't a hit for his band as it has all the elements that other band would have had a NO. 1 with this one.

A rather beaten up 78 but with a little love it shines like new again, I used to use this as a theme for one of my swing radio shows 10 years ago!! but then i had rather primitive "Restoration" devices.
I found a rather poor transfer of this on the net also.. paid for by the McGill university. Its a really bad transfer.. the fools don't know what they are doing.. and yet get funding to do this !.. mine i did myself and it cost zilch.. Take a look at what the American Government payed someone to do.. Southern Fried

and then listen to mine who does this for free. (but would like to get the chance to have a job )



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Fats Waller - Swinga-Dilla Street Regal Zonophone

Hear Fats on the Hammond!

This is one of my Fav Waller 78's, just have a listen to his left hand blurt out passages every now and then which sound just divine!! very contemporary for the 30's.
Ive restored this one many times trying to get it Just right Let me know if it worked!

He is backed of course by his Rhythm, Does anyone know if he recorded anything like this again?, I have 100's of fats Transferred from 78 (and most of em very clean discs) but It don't get much swinger than this!


The stereo version is nice on this one.

Again a quick restoration all done in under 30 seconds.
and the usual 3 versions of each plus a high quality pic of the Label


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Somthing New - Buddy DeFranco and the Glenn Miller Ork

Here is an LP which took me years to find, I first heard this on Cassette which was a CBS 2 pack with modern "members" type recordings and the 2 tracks from the 30's which CBS had the "rights" for a 1935 recording of "Solo Hop" and some other tune of which I've forgotten about. the other Cassette had this album, which i played to death and spent a few years hunting down this one. It's not rare or anything but it's funny I never came across it. Its a real treat to hear the superb sounds of Buddy DeFranco on his clarinet ripping though the Tijuana songbook of the day. the band plays well and the stereo is fab.

Standard Transfer, Very Minimal "restoration".


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Studies In Swing No. 3 - Nat Gonella - When You're Smiling Parlophone A6462

Studies In Swing No. 3
When Your Smiling (Fisher-Goodwin-Shay)
Nat Gonella
Recorded under the direction of George Scott-Wood
Cecil Norman - Piano
Albert Harris - Guitar
Jock Jacobson - Drums
Dick Escott - Bass

Parlophone - A6462
Matrix No. - CE7489 and CE7474
Australian Pressing on Purple Parlophone Label

Transferred Using a Truncated Eliptical Stylus which was a 2.5 Side 2 was using a 3.3.

Here's A real treat a 78 in REAL stereo ! what you may say ok ok there are some Duke Ellington recordings in stereo from'33 and a few odd's and sod's from other outfits namely the Glenn Miller Film soundtracks which were found to be recorded on 35mm magnetic film and recorded in "sections" so they could be mixed in the standard mono for the film. these were remixed in the 90's in a pretty convincing stereo sound and also used on the Home Video releases.

This is like those Miller tracks, one 78 and 2 versions of the same song, side one has the band plus Nat blowing his horn and side two just has the band minus Nat's solo.
so what i did was to put the two side of the disc into my fav multi track program, do a bit of panning and timing and voila a real stereo song from the late 30's (could be early 40's too)
and the band was pretty tight too, the "backing" track was only half a second longer which i did a bit of "time shifting" to correct.

I also have Swing studies No. 2 with Freddy Gardner playing Japanese Sandman which I'll work on a bit later providing anyone cares.

Transferred and Restored By Adrian Gregg In May 2008 in under 10 mins for Transferring and restoration. the stereo "MIX" took a bit longer! as I do these for love and not for $ I only spent a brief time working the stereo out It could be MUCH better with a little work.

Again we have 3 versions
1 GOOD version (my preferred restoration)
2 TMNR overkill on the cleaning for those who hate surface noise
3 REAL STEREO there are 2 versions of this a straight mix and one with a little reverb on the Trumpet Solo

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Wilbur Kentwell - The Continental Parlophone MXA944

Here is some cool Hammond sounds from the maestro of the Theatre Organ Wilbur Kentwell


Check out the below link for info about the man himself
http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/wilbur.html

I have a few Kentwell 78's to put up here if anyone is interested!

Again 3 versions 1 Good, 2 Too Much NR, 3 Fake O Stereo

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