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JERRY GRAY 78s
by Music Librarian Christopher Popa
Decca promotional issues of Jerry Gray 78s had white or turquoise labels (instead of black with gold lettering) with the designation “sample copy; not for sale.”
10” singles
Br (E) 04498, Stormy Weather March / The Carioca
Br (E) 04551, Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant) / The Lonesomest Whistle, 1950
Br (E) 04570, What Is This Thing Called Love? / Home Cookin’
Br (E) 04731, Farewell Blues / Johnson Rag
Br (G) 82 475, In the Mood / A String of Pearls
Bullet 1020, You’re My Everything / It’s Got to Be, 1948 Bob Crosby vocals
Bullet 1045, My Donna Lee / ‘Till We Meet Again Bob Crosby vocals
Cap 269, Along with Me / When You Make L to Me (Don’t M Believe) Whiting
Cap 294, For You, F Me, F Evermore / Passe, 1946 Margaret Whiting vocals
Cap 324, Guilty / Oh, But I Do Margaret Whiting vocals
Cap (Swe) C 294, For You, F Me, F Evermore / Passe, 1946 M Whiting vocs
Col 38416, Johnny Get Your Girl, 1949 Modernaires vocal [ reverse not JG )
Col 38450, Need You / Three Wishes, 1949 Bob Crosby vocals
Col 38458, Don’t C Me Sweetheart Anymore / Old Fashioned Song Bob Crosby
Col 38504, Be My Little Baby B Bee / Maybe It’s B, 1949 Bob Crosby vocs
Col 38505, The B Blonde From B Bend / Senora, 1949 The Modernaires vocals
Col 38541, Peppermint Stick / You’re Too Tall, I’m T Small Harper, Jeffries vocs
Col 38588, On Accounta Because I Love You / Wishing Star Modernaires vocs
Col 38589, My Friend Irma / Love Happy, 1949 The Modernaires vocals
Col 38688, Ollie Ollie Outs in Free The Modernaires vocal [ reverse not JG ]
Col 38791, Down the Lane / Rubber Knuckle Sam, 1950 Modernaires vocals
Col 38883, Java Jive / Schenectady, 1950 The Modernaires vocals
Col (E) D.B. 2535, Johnny Get Your Girl / Stardust Modernaires vocals
Dec 24808 – see album A-744
Dec 24809 – see album A-744
Dec 24810 – see album A-744
Dec 24811 – see album A-744
Dec 24837, Just for Old Times Sake / Sitting By the Window, 1950
Dec 24844, Crew Cut / By the Waters of Minnetonka, 1950
Dec 24894, One, Two, Three / Bamboo, 1950
Dec 24912, Stormy Weather March / The Carioca, 1950
Dec 24956, Star Dust / All the Things You Are, 1950
Dec 24980, This Can’t Be Love / Blue Skies, 1950
Dec 24995, What Is This Thing Called Love / Night and Day, 1950
Dec 27010, Home Cookin’ / Crazy She Calls Me, 1950
Dec 27054, Sound Off / The Lonesomest Whistle, 1950
Dec 27122, You Wonderful You / Dig Dig Dig for Your Dinner, 1950
Dec 27177, In the Mood / A String of Pearls, 1950
Dec 27179, I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine / Vagabond Shoes, 1950
Dec 27180, No Other Love / I Honestly Love You, 1950
Dec 27201, Cincinnati Dancing Pig / I’m Moving On Hoagy Carmichael vocals
Dec 27246, Accidents Will Happen / And You’ll Be Home, 1950
Dec 27311, Where Do I Go From You / The Spirit Is Willing, 1950
Dec 27397, Music By the Angels / Dear, Dear, Dear!, 1951
Dec 27402, Say It with Your Kisses / Would I Love You, 1951
Dec 27450, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Dancing in the Dark
Dec 27451, Desert Serenade / Minuet in G
Dec 27476, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! / Gospel Train, 1951
Dec 27570, Farewell Blues / Johnson Rag, 1951
Dec 27608, Circus / Sound Off, 1951
Dec 27621, Re-Stringing the Pearls / Tell Me, 1951
Dec 27695, Push ‘Em Away / I Love the Sunshine of Your Smile, 1951
Dec 27756, Dreamy Melody / Darling, How Could You, 1951
Dec 27839, I Never Was Loved By Anyone Else / Turn Back the Hands of Time
Dec 27868, Shine On Harvest Moon / Flag Waver, 1951
Dec 27966, Cry / Adios, 1952
Dec 27976, A Garden in the Rain / Unforgettable, 1952
Dec 28141, Somewhere Along the Way / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1952
Dec 28383, Anchors Aweigh / On, Brave Old Army Team, 1952
Dec 28435, Jurame / Bess, You Is My Woman, 1952
Dec 28520, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Do You Know Why?
Dec 28561, No Moon At All / My Heart Belongs to Only You Jo Ann Greer vocs
Dec 28589, I Can’t Lie to Myself / Don’t Wake Me Up Ella Fitzgerald vocals
Dec 28673, And the Bull Walked Around “Olay” / Tompkins Cove, 1953
Dec 28718, Pale Moon / Off the Wall, 1953
Dec 28782, A Pair of Trumpets / One-Stop Boogie, 1953
Dec 28986, The Creep / Oomp-Chuck, 1953
Dec 29038, Coronado Cruise / Stop That Dancing, 1954
Dec 29231, Champagne Boogie / $500 Reward, 1954
Dec 29307, Kettle Drum Hop / The Ooh and Ah Mambo, 1954
Dec (Aus) Y 6261, Crazy She Calls Me / Home Cookin’
Dec (Brazil) 288.247, In the Mood / A String of Pearls
Dec (Brazil) 288.413, The Lonesomest Whistle / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Majestic 1048, You, So It’s Y / Linger in My Arms a L Longer, Baby J Froman
Majestic 1049, I Got Lost in His Arms / Millionaires Don’t Whistle Jane Froman
Merc 3197, Oranges and Lemons / Texas and Pacific, 1946
Merc 5005, Russian Patrol, Part 1 / Part 2, 1946
Merc 5015, Texas and Pacific / Anvil Chorus, 1946
Merc 5053, Ivy / I Have But One Heart, 1947 Vic Damone vocals
Merc 5056, Angela Mia / You Do, 1947 Vic Damone vocals
Merc 5147, Anvil Chorus / Oranges and Lemons
Regina-Mercury (G) RM 70223, A Chorus / Texas and Pacific F Laine voc sd 2
10” albums
Dec A-744, “Club 15… Favorites From a Favorite Air Show,” 1949 (Dec 24808,
You’d Be So Nice to C H To / I’m in Love; 24809, He Rides the Range / Why
Won’t You?; 24810, I Came Here to Be Went with But I Ain’t Been Yet / The
New Asmoleian Marching Society; Dec 24811, Wunderbar / Adieu) with Dick
Haymes, The Andrews Sisters, The Modernaires
Dec A-777, “Dance to the Music of Jerry Gray and His Orchestra,” (24844, By the
Waters of Minnetonka / Crew Cut; 24912, Stormy Weather March / The
Carioca; 24956, All the Things You Are / Stardust; 24980, Blue Skies / This
Can’t Be Love)
Dec A-828, “In the Mood: The Dance Music of . . . ” (27177, In the Mood / A
String of Pearls; 27450, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Dancing in the Dark;
24995, Night and Day / What is This Thing Called Love?; 27451, Desert
Serenade / Minuet in G)
Dec A-898, “A Tribute to Glenn Miller,” 1951 (27866, St. Louis Blues / Jeep Jockey
Jump; 27867, Who’s Sorry Now / The Dipsy Doodle; 27868, Shine On,
Harvest Moon / Flagwaver; 27869, Introduction to a Waltz / V Hop)
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