[78-L] Columbia 415 questions.

[Royal Pemberton]

I'll post my record on YouTube later today so you can hear it for yourself.
It sure doesn't sound like Harry Macdonough!

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:11 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Having said that, I now look back a couple of numbers and find that one
> take of
> Columbia 409 (Home Sweet Home) is tentatively identified, from the spoken
> announcement, as "Mr. Marshall" so you may be right about that name.
>
> dl
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca
> >wrote:
> >
> >> The Columbia Master Book lists Harry Macdonough and doesn't list takes.
> >> Columbia and Climax 7-inch and 10-inch. Only the 7-inch Climax is
> indicated
> >> as
> >> "self-announced" but there's so much missing info on early Columbias,
> every
> >> time I cite a reference from this book someone comes up with 3 more
> >> unlisted
> >> versions.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> Royal Pemberton wrote:
> >>> I have this on a 7" disc (silver ring label, 415-1 handwritten in wax
> >> near
> >>> the spindle hole), 'The new born king'....from what I can make out of
> the
> >>> lyrics in spots, it is a Christmas song.
> >>>
> >>> Wild guesstimation:  recorded circa November 1901?
> >>>
> >>> Also typical for the era, 'tenor solo' on the label with no artiste
> >> credit.
> >>> Can someone give me the correct name of the singer?  It's hard to hear,
> >> it
> >>> sounds like 'Mister Marshes' but I'm not sure.  I also wonder if anyone
> >> else
> >>> recorded the same selection on other matrices, such as J W Myers,
> and/or
> >> if
> >>> 'Marshes' also recorded the 10" opposite number that surely must exist
> >>> somewhere?
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