von noreply@blogger.com (Buster) (Big 10-Inch Record) am 30. November 2025 um 8:33 p.m.

Jo Stafford and Paul WestonConsidering my affinity for Jo Stafford's voice, it's surprising that her seasonal output has never made an appearance here.I suppose that's because her holiday LPs are well known. Even so, I think it's time we presented the three of them - along with a surprising number of orphan tracks that have appeared hither and yon […]

von noreply@blogger.com (Buster) (Big 10-Inch Record) am 3. November 2025 um 6:18 p.m.

This post completes the survey of Sarah Vaughan's earliest recordings, taking her career up to when she joined Columbia, her first major label. There were two previous volumes in this collection, which can be found here and here.This set includes 17 recordings in all. Fifteen were made from November 1947 through the end of the year. That was when […]

von noreply@blogger.com (Midwest Mahjar) (Midwest Mahjar: The Recorded Sounds of the Arabic-Speaking Diaspora in the United States at 78 RPM) am 1. November 2025 um 5:05 a.m.

George Marge: The Lebanese American Woodwind Musician You Didn’t Know You KnewGeorge Marge, Albany High School yearbook (1952) p. 30. Courtesy of Ancestry.comFew Arab American musicians featured on Midwest Mahjar have more recorded music credits to their name than George Marge. No single blog-post could ever do George Marge's life or career […]

von noreply@blogger.com (Buster) (Big 10-Inch Record) am 28. Oktober 2025 um 12:12 a.m.

This is an addendum to my recent post of songs from Jane Powell's career at M-G-M. It's separate because I wanted to focus on the score of this film, 1951's Royal Wedding, because it is so good and should be better known. The composer was Burton Lane and the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, who also wrote the screenplay.This post consists of a transfer […]

von noreply@blogger.com (Buster) (Big 10-Inch Record) am 7. Oktober 2025 um 6:34 p.m.

Here is the second installment of a three-volume survey of the recordings Sarah Vaughan made before joining the Columbia label in 1949. Almost all of these transfers are taken from the original 78s. The three volumes encompass 56 recordings; this iteration has 21.The items in this and the third volume were all made for the small Musicraft label. […]

von noreply@blogger.com (Midwest Mahjar) (Midwest Mahjar: The Recorded Sounds of the Arabic-Speaking Diaspora in the United States at 78 RPM) am 3. September 2025 um 1:53 a.m.

 Louis Shelby: A 78 Record, Two Nightclubs, and the Shelby Legacy in Los AngelesLouis Shelby,  c.1964.At Midwest Mahjar we’ve written about both the Boston and Los Angeles Arab American music scene. We’ve explored the 78 RPM Arabic music merchant Gabriel S. Maloof, Anton Abdelahad, Ramza Abdelahad, Tony Tawa, Ronnie Kirby, and a host of […]