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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