Volume 229: White Album Front Half

It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. These episodes should probably more appropriately be labelled spinning my dad’s dad’s shellac. 

In the old days of records coming on 10” disks with one song per side, it made collections rather large. So in order to organize them, record stores would sell large books that you can put several records in. The same you would do with photos. They came with a generic front cover and several sleeves to slip the disks into. My dad has a couple of these albums.

I decided to pull out the ten record set inside a, now cream colored, album. But I only have time for ten songs.

So get ready to hear the first five records in a personalized collection of 78 RPM disks in Volume 229: White Album Front Half.

Credits and copyrights

Harry James And His Orchestra – I Can't Begin To Tell You / Waitin' For The Train To Come In
Label: Columbia – 36867
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Oct 22, 1945
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Big Band, Swing, Vocal

Recorded in New York, NY, August 20, 1945.

I Can't Begin To Tell You
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Ruth Haag
Written-By – James Monaco and Mack Gordon

Waitin' For The Train To Come In
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Kitty Kallen
Written-By – Martin Block and Sunny Skylar

Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra – A Sunday Kind of Love / Sonata
Label: Columbia – 37219
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Bridgeport Pressing
Released: Jan 1947
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Big Band

Recorded New York, NY, November,11 1946.

A Sunday Kind of Love
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Fran Warren
Written-By – Anita Leonard, Barbara Belle, Louis Prima and Stan Rhodes

Sonata
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Buddy Hughes
Written-By – Alex Alstone, Ervin Drake, and Jimmy Shirl

Dinah Shore / Dinah Shore With Spade Cooley And His Orchestra – Anniversary Song / Heartaches, Sadness And Tears
Label: Columbia – 37234
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Feb 1947
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Vocal, Country, Swing

Dinah Shore– Anniversary Song
Written By – Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin
from a theme by – Ion Ivanovici

Dinah Shore With Spade Cooley And His Orchestra– Heartaches, Sadness And Tears
Written-By – Ella May Evans and Spade Cooley

Frank Sinatra – People Will Say We're In Love / Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Label: Columbia – 36682
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Sep 1943
Genre: Pop
Style: Ballad, Vocal

Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers for the Broadway musical Oklahoma

Frankie Yankovic And His Yanks – Oh Marie / On The Beach
Label: Columbia – 12376-F
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Oct 1948
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk

Written-By – Frank Yankovic

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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