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3/31/22

78 RPM Acetate Record- A Personal [Happy Birthday] Greeting From Mother Goose [for Debbie]- Six Nursery Rhymes

 

Little can be found online about Personna Disk, Inc.; they sold these children's birthday records with commonly given names of children with a custom recorded introduction on the first side of the record. This record was meant for a then little girl named Debbie. Debbie is likely a grand- or great-grandmother by now- if she had children and those children had children, etc. This product appears to be of 1950s vintage. One doesn't see too many commercially mass-produced custom acetate records like this one; it is definitely an oddity for sure! My copy and the one other example on Discogs appear to represent all that can be found about them online. If anyone knows anything more about Personna Disk, Inc., we would all appreciate you sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.   But, one thing is for sure, the equipment they used to lathe this record introduced a rather noticeable AC hum into the audio feed (some of which could not be filtered out by either DeNoise LF or Audacity's noise removal tools), and the amount of reverb used throughout both sides is almost too much to enjoy listening comfortably, especially in the introduction segment of side one. What was up with the early 1950s and putting very noticeable reverb effects on children's records- was it to try to mask the lo-fi-ness of the original recordings?   

Tracklist 

A  A Personal Greeting From Mother Goose 

B1  Little Bo Peep 

B2  Three Blind Mice 

B3  Sing A Song Of Sixpence 

B4  Pop Goes The Weasel 

B5  London Bridge 

B6  Hickory Dickory Dock

3/26/22

Irving Kaufman & Regal Records Orchestra- Little Tots' Nursery Tunes 101

 

                                                Listen here!

Little Tots' Nursery Tunes Records was a budget children's record line starting in 1923. The label was a subsidiary of Regal Records, which mostly issued Emerson Records masters- Emerson was the man behind the ground-breaking Little Wonder Records line, working in partnership with Columbia Records. They controlled some of the major patents needed to legally operate in the United States. Per Wikipedia- "Regal Records was an American record label owned by the Plaza Music Company that issued recordings from 1921 through 1931. Masters were recorded by Emerson Records and issued mostly in chain stores for 50 cents each."

3/15/22

Peter Nero Trio- Just For You (Premier Records PM 2011)- Full Album

 

Premier Records, the parent label of Spin-O-Rama Coronet, Twinkle, Directional Sound, Award, Blue Ribbon, and Celebrity Records, was a budget label that specialized in generic, older material of name artists and knock-off/craze cash-in albums like any other of its time. The majority of the content that appears on Premier was traded around with other budget labels. This was especially true with their more generic music releases. Most of the material on their various record lines is predominantly uploaded/monetized officially by the parties that own most of the recordings that appear to have been issued on this umbrella of record labels. 

All the recordings here can be apparently found online already- but I uploaded this album just to be sure because I wasn't 100% sure with general Google searches. 

Tracklist: 
Scratch My Bach 
Lullaby Of The Leaves 
It Might As Well Be Spring 
Our Love Is Here To Stay 
Red's Romp (Dedicated To Red Norvo) 
There'll Never Be Another You 
Love For Sale 
What Is This Thing Called Love 
How About You 

Credits: Max Wayne - Bass Dick Stein - Drums Peter Nero - Piano

3/1/22

Tops Records 45-R276-49 Top Hit Covers

 

Tops Records was a giant of the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water in terms of quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had, at least, full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops originally entered the market as a seller of used jukebox records, moving quickly to issuing their own records containing covers of the day's top-charting hits. After success with cover records, they moved on to releasing full albums of various genres to fill the music interests of the mass market.

Tracklist

A1 –Laurie Wayne, Bud Roman- Little Child

A2 –Les Anthony And Orchestra- The Poor People Of Paris

B1 –Bud Roman- Ninety-Nine Years

B2 –Danny Daniels, Les Anthony Orchestra- Tutti Frutti

Gilmar Records Compact LP D-G-262

In 1956, Martian Gilbert formed Gilmar Records and had an extensive radio, television, and newspaper ad campaign selling a three-record set of EP 45s containing 18 hit songs. The campaign was a success and had nearly 10,000 orders placed. At first, the 45/78 rpm records were pressed with three songs per side. Also, they issued compact LPs with four hits per side. The 45 rpm generic sleeves suggest they made 12 inch LPs too- but I have never seen them. Soon the 78 rpm releases were dropped, and the number of songs increased per side to eight songs per 45 rpm EP and five songs per 33 1/3 rpm compact LP. The company sponsored a TV program in the '60s named "The Record Hop." They folded sometime in the mid to late '60s (exact date not known).

Tracklist: Side A

A1 Hey Mr. Postman
A2 Fool #1
A3 Big Bad John
A4 I Want To Thank You

Side B

B1 A Wonder Like You
B2 Bristol Stomp
B3 Tower of Strength
B4 Runaround Sue

No artists credited.