Peel's Portobello Road 78s (1970)

In his column in the 20 June, 1970 issue of Disc & Music Echo, Peel wrote:
Before “Top Gear” yesterday Pig and I wandered in Portobello Road. Pig has a very old, very delicate beautifully dressed and very lovely antique doll called Rhinoceros (Yes, I know, but Pig’s like that). We were there to collect her after major eye surgery and we found some fine old records. None as good as “Buddha Smiles, Fox-Trot…” which Andy Roberts gave me a year or so ago….
He showed his record collector's instincts by giving label details as well as titles of what were often very old and rare records, and adding some comments of his own. The 78s mentioned are listed below:
*Azuly Blanco Marimba Band:  Buddha Smiles, Fox-Trot (gift from Andy Roberts)
*Belgravia Quartette: The Dear Little Shamrock (Winner)
*Olly Oakley: Queen of the Burlesque (Pelican)
*Stanley Kirkby: What Did You Do In The Great War, Daddy? (Winner) (“described as a “song”, which seems fair enough”)
*Mr. Frank Webster (“English tenor") : I Know Of Two Bright Eyes (Cinch) (“free from sinister foreign influence”) 
*Mr. Fred Whyte: Baby Love (Guardsman Records) (“not the one the Supremes did at all”)
*Mr. Robert Carr, Baritone: Two Eyes Of Grey (Kalliope) (“Recorded in London, Pressed in Saxony -  A Genuine Edison Bell Gramophone Record” will “Ring out loud and clear”)
*Billy Whitlock (“English Comic w. Orchestra”): Billy Whitlock’s Christmas Pudding (John Bull)
*Miss Carrie Tubb: Many A Lover (Pathé) (“plays from the middle of the record to the outside and there’s no label – the information is etched into the surface of the record”)
*Leslie Sarony with Harry Hudson’s Melody Men: My Wife Is On A Diet (Radio Records) (“Something described as “The Daily Mail Comedy Song”…..Vivian Stanshall would like that one”)
== Junk Shop 78s (1971) ==
It wasn't until the later years of Peel's career that some of these items appeared in his playlists, but in the 11 September 1971 issue of Disc & Music Echo, he reported that he and Bob Harris had "spent two days dragging our ladies from junk shop to junk shop in search of bizarre old 78s." He eventually found some, "in one of the most extraordinary shops I've ever seen", but didn't give a full list of his acquisitions this time. They included a few records on the Beltona label ("The original slogan for Beltona Records was "Curiously Euphonic", which is great")The Beltona label later became part of Decca Records, and in the late 1960s obliged blues collector Nick Perls to change the name of the label he ran - itself specialising in LP anthologies of old 78s - from the similarly-named Belzona to Yazoo Records ., "a recording of the arrival of British troops in France in the 1914-1918 war, and a couple of Pathé records which play from the middle to the outside". But as far as is known, he never played any of these items on his radio shows.
== See Also ==
*Peel's Attic 78s (1973)
*Pig's Big 78
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