[78-L] Al & Bob Harvey

[David Lennick]

That Canadian Decca 1888 is odd..the seller must have used an incorrect number. 
Compo would have put it in the Apex numbering series (26xxx) whether they 
called it Apex, Decca or Melotone or any other name they had represented, and 
taken it somehow from a broadcast because it had no connection with EMI other 
than Odeon/Parlophone, and the original is on Regal or Columbia, I'm 
certain..as well as NOT being listed as by Al and Bob but as a fake hillbilly 
duo. I had the disc but it and the listing for the compilation I did years ago 
have disappeared. (Compo did sometimes lift broadcast tracks.)

Decca 1888 is Bing Crosby and Compo would certainly not have reassigned a 
number on a Crosby item. Only after 1940 did they futz around, raising some 
numbers and lowering others, and always into a 10000 series.

I had all this stuff, as I say, so I also want to confirm the English Decca 
numbers from John Rogers. Good Luck was on a single sided test pressing and 
Somewhere in England/You Never Miss the Old Faces were definitely on the same 
disc. (Wonder why I didn't have In the Quartermaster's Stores? I'll have to see 
if that's on one of the wartime lp compilations Decca did in the 70s.)

Thanks for all this.

dl


On 8/31/2019 9:06 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> "We Like Eliza" and "Whoops We Go Again" was listed as by Al And Bob
> Harvey in Record Changer's February 1953 issue. Seems it was issued on
> Canadian Decca 1888, which means late 1938.
> It's on page 24 - the issue can be found here:
> https://ia802905.us.archive.org/29/items/recordchanger12unse/recordchanger12unse.pdf
>
> According to a sheet music copy of "Whoops..." there was a Regal
> recording - G 40196. Probably the Australian issue. See:
> https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5812907
>
> You probably know this already...
> Kristjan
>
> On 2019-08-30 17:44, David Lennick wrote:
>> Al and Bob Harvey were popular Canadian entertainers who spent most of
>> the 1930s in England. I need label info and (if possible) dates for
>> the following, and the first two sides were actually as something like
>> the Kentucky Mountaineers (possibly on Regal). Final 3 sides are
>> probably from 1939. WE LIKE ELIZA (3:06) WHOOPS! WE GO AGAIN (2:57)
>> GOOD LUCK (AND THE SAME TO YOU) (2:51) SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND (3:01) YOU
>> NEVER MISS THE OLD FACES (3:08) (X1799 is listed in Discogs for 'Good
>> Luck' but that's an Australian number. I need the English Decca
>> number, F- something.) Thanks! dl
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