CONTENTS - No 40 winter 2011

From the President & Chairman’s Chat

Phono 2011 by Howard Martin

    Out of Character (Roger Mackey)

    When Britain Did Things Best (Frank James)

    In the Pink (Keith Harrison)

    Steadfast (Tom Little)

    A Little Nonsense (Christopher Proudfoot)

    From the Rostrum by Christopher Proudfoot

    Elgar (Jon Goldswain)

Cast thy Acoustics upon the Waters (extract from The Gramophone,1934)

Ernest Pike, England's Most Recorded Tenor, by Graham Oakes

Is it a Phonograph? by Russ Gittings

Covers Covered, No 28 Dame Nellie Melba, by Tom Little

More on Melba (soundboxes)

The Oldest Entertainer in the World, by Philip J Booth

CD Review 

    A Song Remembered by Graham Oakes

    Macolm McEachern by Tim Wood-Woolley

    Royal Dadmun 1886 - 1964 Sunday Opera SYO 41 by Mike Clemence

    Two Bing Crosby Shows Volume 1 NCD 07031 by Robert Girling

    Queen of the Earth by Graham Oakes

To the Editors

HMV 11 (from The Voice, May 1937)

People and Papers in Passing, by Christopher Proudfoot

12 Inches - When? by Christopher Proudfoot

We Also Have Our Own Records, Part 44, by Frank Andrews

Phono 2012

The CLPGS Reference Series