[78-L] Al & Bob Harvey

[David Lennick]

Very confusing..as I say, I had the discs (no longer have them) and would have 
transferred what the ad says is on them but the info is incorrect. Good Luck 
was on a single sided test pressing belonging to Ray Sonin, who wrote the 
lyrics, and his other disc (not a test) definitely had Somewhere in England b/w 
You Never Miss the Old Faces. No Hullabaloo Belay to be had.

Thanks!

D


On 9/2/2019 10:54 PM, John Rogers wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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