[78-L] Al & Bob Harvey

[John Rogers]

I located the source for the data on Good Luck/Somewhere In England that I
quoted.  It's from a Decca ad in Gramophone magazine listing their releases
for December 1939.

The March 1940 edition of Gramophone has a review of F 7384  In The
Quartermaster's Store/'Neath The Shanty Town Moon and F 7353 Hullabaloo
Belay/You Never Miss The Old Faces. 

Generally I find that advertised release dates are accurate  but review
dates are often the month after release.

We need someone with access to the CLPGS Decca discography for the recording
dates.

Regards

John Rogers

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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