45worlds: 78 RPM

To clarify my previous comment, after Berliner was prevented from producing discs in the USA, he moved his operation to Canada. So you'll see the Nipper logo on Canadian discs (example here), as well as USA Victor, and UK GramCo/HMV (after 1909), showing the close ties...

Think this might be the right order on the basis of the design of the music publishers logos. Unless anyone else knows different.

B side: [YouTube Video]

B side: [YouTube Video]

i have photos which document this disc on the original "Patents" Victor label. The Hayden Quartet was known then as the Haydn Quartet. I expect the disc can also be found with the earlier version(s) of the Batwing label, as well.

I've added the complete release date. It's from John Bolig's Victor Black Label Discography 18000/19000 Series.

Interesting to look around the various world releases. "Woman Love" was banned from airplay in UK and many parts of US and it has been taken off the flip in some countries. In some cases "Be-Bop-A-Lula" was only released when the movie "The Girl Can't Help It" came out....

Come to think of it, the British coupling is pretty bizarre too. The "A"-side is a mindless, long forgotten cover of the US Pop song "Teenage Crush" and hidden on the flip was what is best R&R record ever made in England. Maybe one of the best R&R records - period! For...

Can these label variants be dated and brought into some kind of chronological order?

The Gramophone Company (HMV) and Victor exchanged recordings from their beginnings, with Gramco covering Europe and Victor the Americas. After Emil Berliner was prevented from making discs in the USA (June 1900), Eldrige Johnson managed to convince the USA courts in...

Primarily released as a 7" on Fontana TF 455