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A Dickie Bird Told Me So + Kuywiak (1929) Jay Whidden

A DICKIE BIRD TOLD ME SO (0:00) Victory Dance Orchestra: Jay Whidden (8 March 1929) KUYWIAK (2:14) The Three Pollies: violin, zimbola and harp (no other information) The Victory, Woolworth, No. 83 A very strange pairing; and a bit hard on the ears. Woolworth’s own-brand 78s were labelled “The Victory” or “Victory” until 1931 when they re-branded them “Eclipse”. On The Victory, well over two-minutes of recording was shoe-horned onto one side of a 7-inch 78 rpm disc. This was achieved by squeezing the grooves closer together, which required a lower overall recording level and a drastic reduction in the recording level of the low frequencies – plus spiralling nearer the hole in the middle! The low overall recording level means that groove noise (inherent in the pressing and added to by 86 years of use and abuse) is very intrusive; and attempts to restore the reduced bass/low-frequencies merely amplifies the low frequency detritus (hum and vibrations) captured in the groove at the recording session. Jay Whidden and His Band are more famous for their version of ‘A Dickie Bird Told Me So’ recorded for Imperial (a 10-inch disc of better grooves: Imperial 2053) with Fred Douglas on vocals. This instrumental version was recorded a month earlier on 8 March 1929 by Crystalate who had the Woolworth contract at the time. On that day, Whidden and his band knocked-off eight sides for The Victory label, plus another one for issue by Kristall in Germany. Whidden's Victory recordings made that day were variously issued as Victory Dance Orchestra (as here), The Music Masters and Jayson’s Dance Orchestra. On both sides of the Atlantic, low-price/dime-store records were notorious for having a current popular tune on one side and something totally unknown on the other. The latter was cost-cutting. The record company usually commissioned the composition and did not, therefore, have to pay royalties etc. However, dance band music usually backed dance band music, but here Woolworth have excelled themselves. Not only have they saved fees for a vocalist and for the lyricist with the Whidden instrumental; but they have coupled it with something that sounds like traditional east European music performed by a strange trio (violin, czimbalum & harp). Purchasers/lovers of dance band music effectively got a one-sided record when they bought this at Woolies!