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Canning, Kings County, Nova Scotia

Wilf Carter's records

78 rpm 45 rpm 33 rpm

When completed, this discography (list of records) is intended
to include all of Wilf Carter's music sold on analog media
( needle-in-groove discs and magnetic tapes),
but not digital media (CDs, etc.)

Before 1990 it was almost all on analog media; after 2000 almost all was on digital media.

Recent Additions
to this collection

33rpm Record Labels Wilf Carter Montana Slim
Balladeer of the Golden West 1966	Wilf Carter Australia	RCA Camden OCS-944
	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAL-944
	Wilf Carter Canada (blue label)	RCA Camden CAS-944
	Wilf Carter Canada (green label)	RCA Camden CAS-944
How My Yodeling Days Began 1970	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAL-2222
How My Yodeling Days Began 1970	Wilf Carter New Zealand - Australia	RCA VKLI-7426
No Letter Today 1967	Montana Slim New Zealand	RCA Camden CAL-2171
	Montana Slim Australia	RCA Camden CAS-2171
	Montana Slim Canada	RCA Camden CAL-2171
	Montana Slim United States (green label)	RCA Camden CAS-2171(e)
	Montana Slim United States (blue label)	RCA Camden CAS-2171(e)
Yodeling Memories 1965	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAL-875
Old Prairie Melodies 1967	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAS-2175
32 Wonderful Years 1965	Montana Slim Great Britain	Decca RCA Camden CDN-5127
	Montana Slim United States	RCA Camden CAL-846
	Montana Slim United States	RCA Camden CAS-846(e)
	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAL-787
	Wilf Carter Australia	RCA Camden CAL-787
	Wilf Carter Canada	Pickwick RCA Camden CAS-787
All Time Favorites Old Time Favorites 1982	Montana Slim Canada	RCA CRM DVL 1-0584 Canadian Rockies Marketing Ltd.
All Time Favorites Old Time Favorites 1982	Montana Slim United States 1983	RCA SMI DVL 1-0584 Suffolk Marketing Inc.
Reminiscin' with Wilf Carter Montana Slim 1962	Montana Slim United States	RCA Camden CAL-668
	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAL-668
	Wilf Carter Australia	RCA Camden CAM-83
	Montana Slim England	Stetson HAT 3085 Stetson Records
	Montana Slim West Germany	Stetson HAT 3085 Longhorn Records
The Rare Ones	Wilf Carter	Pinto WC-501
Nuggets of the Golden West 1964	Wilf Carter Canada	RCA Camden CAL-840
Nuggets of the Golden West 1964	Wilf Carter Australia	RCA Camden CAL-840 Summit Records
Cowboy Songs by Wilf Carter		Toronto WCE-1
Wilf Carter's New Cowboy Songs		Toronto WCE-2
Wilf Carter Singing His Songs of the West	Montana Slim	Toronto WCE-3
Cowgirlboy Records Dagmar Binge Gerolzholfen, Germany	Wilf Carter The Days of the Yodeling Cowboys	Cowgirlboy 5003
	Wilf Carter More Days of the Yodeling Cowboys	Cowgirlboy 5012 1977
	Wilf Carter Brown-Eyed Prairie Rose	Cowgirlboy 5044
	Wilf Carter Dawn on the Prairie	Cowgirlboy 5045
Living Legend	Wilf Carter	Starday SLP-300
	Wilf Carter	Gusto SLP-300 1975
	Wilf Carter	Sparton SLP-300
	Wilf Carter	King SLP-300
K. P. Blues	Montana Slim	Starday SLP-389 1966

45rpm RCA Victor Wilf Carter Montana Slim
RCA Victor 47-5045	Huggin', Squeezin', Kissin', Teasin' Sweet Little Lover
RCA Victor 47-8205	32 Wonderful Years A Cashbox for a Heart
RCA Victor 48-0514	I Wish There Were Only Three Days in the Year My Oklahoma Rose
RCA Victor 48-0523	Good-Bye Maria Driftwood on the River
The date generally cited for launch of the RCA 45rpm record is 31 March 1949. Birth of the 45 R.P.M. Record by Norm Katuna
Most (all?) 45rpm records were made of "vinyl", short for polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC). Vinyl Record Wikipedia Vinyl Record FactIndex Polyvinyl Chloride Wikipedia Polyvinyl Chloride FactIndex

45rpm Decca Wilf Carter Montana Slim
EP Decca ED-2204 1955	One Golden Curl I'm Gonna Tear Down the Mailbox I Bought a Rock for a Rocky Mountain Gal The Alpine Milkman
Decca 9-30340	Away Out on the Mountain There's a Padlock on Your Heart
Decca 9-30633	X's From Down in Texas Let a Little Sunshine in Your Heart

78rpm Regal Zonophone Wilf Carter Montana Slim
G-22956	Wilf Carter Australia	Returning To My Old Prairie Home Trail To Home Sweet Home
G-23147	Wilf Carter Australia	The Hobo's Blues A Cowboy's Best Friend Is His Pony
G-23149	Wilf Carter Australia	Cowboy's Mother Dear Old Daddy Of Mine
G-23153	Wilf Carter Australia	My Little Grey Haired Mother In The West A Little Log Shack I Can Always Call My Home
G-23155	Wilf Carter Australia	Sway Back Pinto Pete Lovers Lullaby Yodel
G-23449	Wilf Carter Australia	Covered Wagon Headin' West How My Yodelling Days Began
G-23450	Wilf Carter Australia	Where Is My Boy Tonight? Answer To Swiss Moonlight Lullaby
G-23452	Wilf Carter Australia	Goodbye Little Pal Of My Dreams The Hobo's Yodel
G-23567	Wilf Carter Australia	I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine You'll Alwys Be In My Dreams
G-23708	Wilf Carter Australia	Yodelling Hillbilly By The Grave Of Nobody's Darling
G-23710	Wilf Carter Australia	When The Sun Says Goodnight To The Prairie Old Barn Dance
G-23711	Wilf Carter Australia	Down The Old Cattle Trail Broken Down Cowboy
G-23714	Wilf Carter Australia	The Capture Of Albert Johnson The Rescue From Moose River Gold Mine
G-23844	Wilf Carter Australia	Answer To It Makes No Difference Now Roll Along, Kentucky Moon
G-23932	Wilf Carter Australia	Down The Yodelling Trail At Twilight I Just Can't Forget You Old Pal
G-23953	Wilf Carter Australia	The Little Red Patch On The Seat Of My Trousers Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy
G-23986	Wilf Carter Australia	The Cowboy's Airplane Ride My Dreams Come True
G-24011	Wilf Carter Australia	I'm Hittin' The Trail My Brown-Eyed Prairie Rose
G-24040	Wilf Carter Australia	The Hobo's Song To The Mounties Prairie Sunset
G-24055	Wilf Carter Australia	We'll Meet Again In Peaceful Valley It Makes No Difference Now
G-24151	Wilf Carter Australia	My Honeymoon Bridge Broke Down I'm Only A Dude In Cowboy's Clothes
G-24193	Wilf Carter Australia	My Ramblin' Days Are Through When The White Azaleas Start Blooming
G-24206	Wilf Carter Australia	Red River Valley Blues It's Cowboy's Night To Howl
G-24278	Wilf Carter Australia	Don't Let Me Down Old Pal Round-Up Time In Sunny Old Alberta
G-24294	Wilf Carter Australia	I'm Still Waiting For You My Old Montana Home
G-24354	Wilf Carter Australia	When It's Roll-Call In The Bunk House I'll Get Mine Bye-and-Bye
G-24384	Wilf Carter Australia	My Old Lasso Is Headed Straight For You He Left The One Who Loved Him For Another
G-24447	Wilf Carter Australia	What A Wonderful Mother Of Mine You Are My Sunshine
G-24548	Wilf Carter Australia	A Cowboy Who Never Returned My Yodelling Sweetheart
G-24567	Wilf Carter Australia	When I Bid The Prairie Good-bye Memories Of My Little Log Shack
G-24697	Wilf Carter Australia	You Left Your Brand On My Heart Ridin' A Maverick
G-24705	Wilf Carter Australia	Memories Of My Grey Haied Mother In The West Dawn On The Prairie
G-24729	Wilf Carter Australia	Wilf Carter Blues The Fate Of The Sunset Trail
G-24772	Wilf Carter Australia	Headin' For That Land Of Gold Put My Little Shoes Away
G-24794	Wilf Carter Australia	My True And Earnest Prayer Call Of The Range
G-24812	Wilf Carter Australia	Golden Memories Of Mother And Dad My Lulu
G-24916	Wilf Carter Australia	I Bought A Rock For A Rocky Mountain Gal Streamlined Yodel Song
G-24978	Wilf Carter Australia	I'll Meet You At The Roundup In The Spring The Cowboy Wedding In May
G-24992	Wilf Carter Australia	My Missoula Valley Moon Old Chuck Wagon Days
G-25107	Wilf Carter Australia	Moonlight Prison Blues Yodelling Love Call
G-25127	Wilf Carter Australia	Why Did We Ever Part? Ride For The Open Range
ME-66	Montana Slim Great Britain	I'm Still Waiting for You Why Should I Feel Sorry For You Now?
MR-3209	Montana Slim Great Britain	Roll Along, Kentucky Moon The Golden Lariat
MR-3337	Montana Slim Great Britain	The Old Barn Dance Broken-Down Cowboy
MR-3375	Montana Slim Great Britain	Roll On, Dreamy Texas Moon The Preacher and the Cowboy
MR-3439	Montana Slim Great Britain	It's a Cowboy's Night to Howl Red River Valley Blues
MR-3486	Montana Slim Great Britain	My Old Lasso is Headed Straight for You He Left the One Who Loved Him for Another
MR-3523	Montana Slim Great Britain	Echoing Hills Yodel Back to Me When the White Azaleas Start Blooming
MR-3570	Montana Slim Great Britain	The Call of the Range It's Great to be Back in the Saddle Again

78rpm Montgomery Ward Wilf Carter Montana Slim
M-7186	Wilf Carter	A: Midnight the Unconquered Outlaw B: The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan
M-7259	Montana Slim	A: The Last Ride Down Lariat Trail B: Broken Down Cowboy
M-7260	Montana Slim	A: Ridin' a Maverick B: The Cowboy Wedding in May
M-7261	Montana Slim	A: The Preacher and the Cowboy B: My Faithful Pinto Pal
M-7262	Montana Slim	A: Roll Along Moonlight B: Roll On Dreaming Texas Moon
M-7263	Montana Slim	A: Don't Let Me Down, Old Pal B: Won't You Be The Same Old Pal
M-7264	Montana Slim	A: Rose of My Heart B: Covered Wagon Headin' West
M-7265	Montana Slim	A: There'll Be No Blues Up Yonder B: Goodbye Little Pal of My Dreams
M-7266	Montana Slim	A: Under the Light of the Texas Moon B: I'm Still Waiting For You
M-7267	Montana Slim	A: Old Alberta Plains B: The Cowboy's Heavenly Dream
M-7268	Montana Slim	A: My Old Montana Home B: The Hobo's Yodel
M-7604	Montana Slim	A: Cowboy Lullaby B: Memories of My Little Grey Haired Mother in the West
M-7627	Montana Slim	A: Old Alberta Plains B: The Cowboy's Heavenly Dream
M-7894	Montana Slim	A: When It's Twilight Over Texas B: Memories of My Little Old Log Shack
M-7895	Montana Slim	A: When the Sun Says, "Goodnight", to the Prairie B: How My Yodeling Days Began
M-7897	Montana Slim	A: Down the Yodeling Trail at Twilight B: When I Say Hello to the Rockies
M-8459	Montana Slim	A: When I Bid the Prairie Goodbye B: My Dreams Come True
M-8460	Montana Slim	A: You Left Your Brand On My Heart B: Yodeling Love Call
M-8461	Montana Slim	A: My Brown-Eyed Prairie Rose B: I'll Meet You at the Round-Up in the Spring
M-8462	Montana Slim	A: Dawn on the Prairie B: My Yodeling Sweetheart
M-8463	Montana Slim	A: Yodeling Memories B: Cowboy's Airplane Ride
M-8465	Montana Slim	A: By the Grave of Nobody's Darling B: Pete Knight's Last Ride
M-8708	Montana Slim	A: It's All Over Now (I Won't Worry) B: Rattlin' Cannonball
M-8711	Montana Slim	A: When It's Roll-Call in the Bunkhouse B: I'll Get Mine Bye-and-Bye
M-8865	Montana Slim	A: What a Wonderful Mother of Mine B: You Are My Sunshine

Montgomery Ward envelope for 78rpm records

78rpm Decca Wilf Carter Montana Slim
29535	Montana Slim United States	Maple Leaf Waltz The Sunshine Bird	A039
29671	Wilf Carter Canada	The Alpine Milkman There's a Tree on Every Road	A096

Victor Talking Machine Company Inc., Camden, New Jersey
The Victor Talking Machine Company by Ben L. Aldridge
In January 1929 the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) bought the Victor Talking Machine Company, forming RCA Victor.

78rpm RCA Victor RCA Bluebird Wilf Carter Montana Slim Listed in numerical order
RCA Bluebird B-4600 Wilf Carter	A: I Long for Old Wyoming B: My Little Swiss and Me
RCA Bluebird B-4601 Wilf Carter	A: The Rescue from Moose River Gold Mine B: Keep Smiling Old Pal	A025 A200
RCA Bluebird B-4602 Wilf Carter	A: The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan B: Yodeling Hillbilly
RCA Bluebird B-4603 Wilf Carter	A: Old Barn Dance B: Broken-Down Cowboy	A175
RCA Bluebird B-4604 Wilf Carter	A: Dreamy Prairie Moon B: Sweetheart of My Childhood Days
RCA Bluebird B-4605 Wilf Carter	A: Midnight the Unconquered Outlaw B: The Fate of the Sunset Trail
RCA Bluebird B-4608 Wilf Carter	A: Roll Along Moonlight Yodel B: Memories of My Gray-Haired Mother
RCA Bluebird B-4610 Wilf Carter	A: The Hobo's Yodel B: Goodbye Little Pal Of My Dreams	A134
RCA Bluebird B-4650 Wilf Carter	A: It Makes No Difference Now B: We'll Meet Again in Peaceful Valley	A013 A114
RCA Bluebird B-4988 Wilf Carter	A: Down the Old Cattle Trail B: The Hobo's Song to the Mounties	A038
RCA Bluebird B-8149 Wilf Carter	A: Answer To It Makes No Difference Now B: Roll Along Kentucky Moon	A010
RCA Bluebird B-8149 Montana Slim	A: Answer To It Makes No Difference Now B: Roll Along Kentucky Moon	A193
RCA Bluebird B-8157 Montana Slim 1939	A: Where Is My Boy Tonight? B: What a Friend We Have in Mother
RCA Bluebird B-8491 Wilf Carter	A: What a Wonderful Mother of Mine B: You Are My Sunshine	A012 A245
RCA Bluebird B-8548 Wilf Carter	A: When It's Roll-Call in the Bunkhouse Tonight B: I'll Get Mine Bye-and-Bye	A054
RCA Bluebird B-8753	A: It's Great To Be Back In The Saddle Again B: Call Of The Range	B049
RCA Bluebird B-8800 Montana Slim 1941	A: La Verne My Brown Eyed Rose B: Ride for the Open Range
RCA Bluebird B-9032 Montana Slim	A: I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes B: Put My Little Shoes Away	A018 A107
RCA Victor 27784 Montana Slim	P114-1 A: When the Sun Says "Goodnight" to the Prairie P114-2 B: Cowboy's Airplane Ride	A071 A073
RCA Victor 27785 Montana Slim	P114-3 A: Pete Knight's Last Ride P114-4 B: My Old Montana Blues	A074
RCA Victor 27786 Montana Slim	P114-5 A: My Brown-Eyed Prairie Rose P114-6 B: I'm Hittin' the Trail	A070
RCA Victor 27787 Montana Slim	P114-7 A: When I Bid the Prairie Good-bye P114-8 B: I'll Meet You at the Roundup in the Spring	A075 A110
In 1942 RCA Victor faced an interesting problem: they were running out of record numbers ... Therefore, a new numbering system was introduced in late 1942. In this system, each record bore a 2-digit prefix and a 4-digit serial number. In prefixes: 10 to 19 indicated Red Seal records, 20 to 29 black-label popular, country, race or ethnic records, 30 to 39 Bluebird records, 40 to 49 various special issues (and later, 45rpm records), and 55 to 59 Canadian records. Higher prefixes are known, but the details of the material on the records is not currently identified... — "RCA Victor Records – History of Recorded Sound in Canada" by Steven C. Barr
In November 1942 Bluebird changed its numerical system to four-digit serial numbers prefixed by a two-digit category code. — "Label Types of Bluebird Records" by Colin J. Bray and Jack Litchfield Category 20: Category 21: Country Music (United States) Category 33: Country Music (United States) 33-0500 (Nov 1942) to 33-0539 (Dec 1945) Category 55: Country Music (Canada only) 55-3201 (Jan 1943) to at least 55-3244 (May 1949) Category 58: Country Music (Canada only) 58-0001 (Mar 1946) to at least 58-0215 (late 1951)
RCA Victor 20-2071 Montana Slim 1946	A: I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes B: It Makes No Difference Now	A129
RCA Victor 20-2364 Montana Slim	A: Too Many Blues B: Singin' On Borrowed Time	A076 A130
RCA Victor 20-2561 Montana Slim	A: Hang the Key on the Bunkhouse Door B: Rye Whiskey Also see: RCA Victor 58-0058	A111
RCA Victor 20-2927 Montana Slim	A: I'm Gonna Tear Down the Mailbox B: 'Neath a Blanket of Stars	A093 A167
RCA Victor 20-3293 Montana Slim	A: Just An Old Forgotten Letter B: If We Can't Be Sweethearts Why Can't We Be Friends	A131
RCA Victor 21-0136 Montana Slim	A: When the Ice Worm Nests Again B: Shackles and Chains Also see: RCA Victor 58-0129	A128
RCA Victor 21-0168 Montana Slim	A: Unfaithful One B: Give a Little, Take a Little
RCA Victor 21-0352 Montana Slim	A: Apple, Cherry, Mince and Choc'late Cream B: Take It Easy Blues	A137
RCA Victor 21-0392 Montana Slim	A: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer B: Jolly Old St. Nicholas This record is a rare 78rpm vinyl disc.	A226
RCA Bluebird 33-0510 Montana Slim	A: That First Love of Mine B: Sittin' by the Old Corral
RCA Bluebird 55-3201 Wilf Carter	That First Love Of Mine Waiting For A Train
55-3202	The Prisoner's Song Sitting By The Old Corral
55-3209	My Yodeling Days Are Through I May Be Wrong
55-3212	Our Canadian Flag There's A Gold Star In Her Window
55-3213	Dreaming Of My Blue Eyes No Letter To-Day
55-3215	You'll Get Used To It Put Me In Your Pocket
RCA Bluebird 55-3217 Wilf Carter	A: Smiling Thru' Tears B: So Hard To Start Over Again	A011
55-3219	Old Shep My Queen Of The Prairies
55-3221	I'll Never Die Of A Broken Heart Born To Lose
RCA Bluebird 55-3223 Wilf Carter	A: Plant Some Flowers By My Graveside B: Farewell, Sweetheart, Farewel	A014 A057
55-3225	I Ain't Gonna Be A Hobo No More A Sinner's Prayer
55-3229	My Blue Skies Don't Be Mean I Wasn't Mean To You
55-3231	I've Hung Up My Chaps And Saddle Memories Bring Heartaches To Me
58-0041	Too Many Blues Singin' On Borrowed Time
58-0050	Don't Wait Till Judgement Day Sharing Your Love With Somebody New
RCA Victor 58-0058 Wilf Carter	A: Hang the Key on the Bunkhouse Door B: Rye Whiskey Also see: RCA Victor 20-2561	A132
58-0081	I'm Gonna Tear Down The Mailbox 'Neath A Blanket Of Stars
58-0090	The Midnight Train The Tramp's Mother
58-0100	One Golden Curl I'm A Fool For Foolin' Around
58-0108	She Lost Her Cowboy Pal Don't Cry Over Me
58-0111	All I Need Is Some More Lovin' There's A Bluebird On Your Windowsill
58-0126	Just An Old Forgotten Letter If We Can't Be Sweethearts Why Can't We Be Friends
RCA Victor 58-0129 Wilf Carter	A: When the Ice Worm Nests Again B: Shackles and Chains Also see: RCA Victor 21-0136	A133
58-0141	Unfaithful One Give A Little, Take A Little

Victor Division, RCA Victor Company Inc., Camden, New Jersey

8-Track Tapes Wilf Carter Montana Slim
The Hits of Wilf Carter 1977	Wilf Carter Canada	KES1-8099
All Time Favorites Old Time Favorites 1983	Montana Slim United States	DVS1-0584

Montana Slim 78: Montgomery Ward M-7263A with Electrically Recorded notation

Montana Slim 78: Montgomery Ward M-7263A
"Electrically Recorded"

Special Interest Labels Wilf Carter Montana Slim "Electrically Recorded"
RCA Bluebird B-4601 Wilf Carter	A: The Rescue from Moose River Gold Mine B: Keep Smiling Old Pal
RCA Bluebird B-4988 Wilf Carter	A: Down the Old Cattle Trail B: The Hobo's Song to the Mounties
In the 1930s phonograph record labels often included the words "Electrically Recorded". This was a marketing strategy used to promote sales of records made with the new electric recording system that had replaced the acoustic recording system used since the beginning of recorded sound in the 1870s. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the production and sale of phonograph records was a large and important commercial activity. In 1921 alone – when acoustic recording was the only method available – some 55,000,000 Victor 78rpm discs in both ten-inch [25cm] and twelve-inch [30cm] sizes were sold, including classical, popular, and ethnic music. Before 1925, all records (both cylinders and discs) were recorded by the artist singing or speaking into a horn, or the musician playing close to a horn. The horn gathered and concentrated the sound waves and delivered them to a thin membrane linked to the recording stylus. The vibrations of the membrane moved the stylus, thus cutting the wax of the master disc. The recording stylus was moved solely by the sound waves. These discs are called "acoustic" recordings. The deficiencies of acoustic recording – poor bass response, unsatisfactory results for singers with less than the strongest voice, the difficulty of recording groups of instruments with a single horn, etc. – had been known for decades, but no alternative was available until the 1920s, when the development of electronic vacuum tubes and amplification of weak electrical signals revolutionized sound recording (and many other activities). In October 1924, Columbia Phonograph Company experimented with a new electrical recording system using equipment developed by Western Electric. In 1925 the first electrically recorded 78rpm discs appeared for sale. The new records sounded different from those recorded by the acoustic process. Electrically-recorded discs added an extra octave at each end of the acoustic spectrum, both treble and bass. The music produced by record players sounded much better, and retail sales of the new records were brisk. In 1925 Victor released its last acoustically-recorded phonograph discs. Late in 1925 – just in time for the Christmas season – the Victor Talking Machine Company (usually known as Victor) introduced the brand name "Orthophonic" to identify its products made with and for the radical new recording process. This was three years before RCA bought Victor – before "RCA Victor". Thomas Alva Edison fiercely resisted electric recording, insisting on sticking to the acoustic process he had pioneered so long ago – no doubt because his deafness prevented him from hearing the difference between the recordings produced by the two different technologies – but an alarming drop in Edison's record sales in 1925, 1926, and 1927 forced a change. Electrical recording was first used extensively by the Edison Company in the Fall of 1927. This very late conversion to electric recording was one of the factors that doomed the Phonograph Division of Thomas A. Edison Inc. The Edison Company ceased all recording on 19 Oct. 1929, and stopped selling records to dealers on 1 Nov. 1929. In the 1930s "Electrically Recorded" had a strong selling effect similar to that of "High Fidelity" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, or "Stereophonic" in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The New Orthophonic Victrolas (1926), specially designed to play the new electrically-recorded 78rpm discs

Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey
The New Orthophonic Victrolas (1926)
These machines were specially designed to play the new electrically-recorded 78rpm discs.
All four models are hand-cranked – the turntable is rotated by a motor powered by a
coiled spring. No electricity is required to play records on any of these machines.

Victor's Orthophonic Credenza – the King of Machines? by R.J. Wakeman
On 2 November 1925,the Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey, introduced
to the phonograph market four Orthophonic models, Credenza, Colony, Consolette, and Granada...

Victor Orthophonic Phonograph

History of the Victrola by Paul C. Edie

Victor introduced an all-new line of phonographs, using a new horn design in various sizes, a new improved reproducer (soundbox) and dubbed "Orthophonic" Victrolas, in time for the Christmas season of 1925...
Victor Orthophonic Phonograph by Peter Fraser

Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey
The New Orthophonic Record is surprising in its clarity, brilliance and volume...

This was the state of the art at the
beginning of Wilf Carter's recording career.

The Orthophonic trade mark still in use in the 1960s

"Orthophonic" was a powerful trade mark.
It remained in use in the 1960s, four decades
after it was introduced in late 1925.
This appearance is on the label of Wilf Carter 33rpm LP "32 Wonderful Years".

"Orthophonic" on the label of Wilf Carter 45rpm "32 Wonderful Years".

Special Interest Labels Wilf Carter Montana Slim Records with different labels on the two sides
RCA Bluebird B-4988 Wilf Carter	78rpm A: Down the Old Cattle Trail B: The Hobo's Song to the Mounties
WCE-3 Wilf Carter	33rpm LP Wilf Carter Edition volume 3
Most records have two labels, one on each side, and these two are printed from the same design. Only the song titles are different on the two labels on the same record. Occasionally, one finds a record with different labels on the two sides. These records are examples of this rare condition.

Special Interest Labels Wilf Carter Montana Slim Royalty stamps printed on the record label
78rpm Australia	Regal Zonophone G-23155 Wilf Carter
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone ME-66 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3209 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3337 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3375 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3439 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3486 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3523 Montana Slim
78rpm England	Regal Zonophone MR-3570 Montana Slim
33rpm New Zealand	No Letter Today RCA Camden CAL-2171 Montana Slim
33rpm Australia	No Letter Today RCA Camden CAS-2171 Montana Slim
33rpm Australia	32 Wonderful Years Decca - RCA Camden CDN-5127 Montana Slim
33rpm Australia	32 Wonderful Years RCA Camden CAL-787 Wilf Carter
33rpm Australia	Reminiscin' RCA Camden CAM-83 Wilf Carter

Montana Slim album, early 1940s, four 78rpm records in individual envelopes

Montana Slim album, early 1940s
four ten-inch [25cm] 78rpm records in individual envelopes
Many years before LP "albums" were introduced, 78rpm records were sold in real
albums – hard-cover "books" whose pages were heavy kraft paper envelopes.
Each envelope held one record. An album like this provided safe
and secure long-term storage for the records it held.
(Photographed 19 August 2004)

Montana Slim record album, early 1940s

Montana Slim record album P114, early 1940s
Album size: 12 × 10½ inches [30.3 × 26.6 cm]
Four records, eight sides, one song on each side

P 114-1 When the Sun Says Goodnight to the Prairie
P 114-2 Cowboy's Airplane Ride
P 114-3 Pete Knight's Last Ride
P 114-4 My Old Montana Blues
P 114-5 My Brown-Eyed Prairie Rose
P 114-6 I'm Hittin' the Trail
P 114-7 When I Bid the Prairie Goodbye
P 114-8 I'll Meet You at the Round Up in the Spring

RCA Victor Bluebird Catalog 1941, top half front cover
Complete front cover and Montana Slim listing

RCA Victor Bluebird - list of Wilf Carter records, circa 1949

RCA Victor Bluebird - list of Wilf Carter records, c. 1949
Complete list

Wilf Carter 78: Bluebird 55-3217A
Smiling Thru' Tears
This particular record (above) shows damage – a narrow circle cut into the label, often seen on used
78rpm records – caused when the needle failed to track the eccentric shutdown groove and
moved inward until the arm touched the spindle. When this happened, the automatic shutdown
feature, intended to stop the turntable when the record had finished playing, was not activated
and the record continued turning, with the needle resting on the label, until someone shut it off.
This produced a characteristic rushing sound, repeating in a 770-millisecond cycle, familiar to
everyone who listened to recorded music in the 1930s to the 1960s. As the record went
round and round, the needle gradually cut a permanent groove into the label itself.
On this label it shows as a narrow white circle through the wording
"RCA Victor Company Limited, Montreal, Canada" at the bottom.

Montana Slim 78rpm records for sale in June 1941 as listed in the RCA Victor Bluebird Catalog June 1941 page 14
B-5545	The Round-Up In The Fall Take Me Back To Old Montana
B-5871	I'm Gonna Ride To Heaven On A Streamline Train The Two-Gun Cowboy
B-6208	Lonesome For Baby Tonight Hillbilly Valley
B-6515	My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby Midnight, The Unconquered Outlaw
B-6826	Round-Up Time In Heaven Dreamy Prairie Moon
B-6827	Roamin' My Whole Life Away Yodeling Cow-Girl
B-7618	By The Grave Of Nobody's Darling Talking To The River
B-8111	There's A Love-Knot In My Lariat My Little Yoho Lady
B-8149	Answer To "It Makes No Difference Now" Roll Along Kentucky Moon
B-8150	What Difference Does It Make? Golden Lariat
B-8157	What A Friend We Have In Mother Where Is My Boy Tonight?
B-8181	Answer To "Swiss Moonlight Lullaby" Down The Yodeling Trail At Twilight
B-8202	When It's Twilight Over Texas Memories Of My Little Old Log Shack
B-8241	The Preacher And The Cowboy Roll On Dreamy Texas Moon
B-8284	When I Say Hello To The Rockies My Only Romance Is Memories Of You
B-8313	I'm Only A Dude In Cowboy Clothes My Honeymoon Bridge Broke Down
B-8329	The Cowboy Wedding In May I'm Still Waiting For You
B-8361	Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy That Little Red Patch On The Seat Of My Trousers
B-8374	Old Barn Dance Broken-Down Cowboy
B-8389	The Fate Of Old Strawberry Roan Yodeling Hillbilly
B-8425	It's All Over Now Rattlin' Cannonball
B-8441	It's Cowboy's Night To Howl Red River Valley Blues
B-8456	When The White Azaleas Start Blooming My Ramblin' Days Are Through
B-8472	Why Should I Feel Sorry For You Now? Beautiful Girl Of The Prairie
B-8491	What A Wonderful Mother Of Mine You Are My Sunshine
B-8517	I Still Think Of You, Sweet Nellie Dean My True And Earnest Prayer
B-8531	He Left The One Who Loved Him For Another My Old Lasso Is Headed Straight For You
B-8548	When It's Roll-Call In The Bunk House I'll Get Mine Bye-and-Bye
B-8566	Back Ridin' The Old Trails Again My Old Canadian Home
B-8591	Dad's Little Texas Lad Thinking
B-8616	Echoing Hills Yodel Back To Me My Texas Sweetheart
B-8641	You Were With Me In The Waltz Of My Dreams When That Somebody Else Was You
B-8661	Old Chuck Wagon Days My Missoula Valley Moon

• Pete Knight, the King of the Cowboys
• Midnight, the Unconquered Outlaw
• Pete Knight's Last Ride
— songs recorded by Wilf Carter

Looking back on one Knight of a cowboy
"In 1934, Wilf Carter, who was known in the United States
as Montana Slim, recorded a song in Montreal –
'Pete Knight King of the Cowboys,' " Darrell Knight said.
"Warner Brothers has the rights to the song.
It was a smash hit in 1934."
...Pete Knight died under the hooves of a bucking horse
in Hayward, California, in May 1937...
— Wyoming Tribune Eagle, 17 July 2004
http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/more.asp?StoryID=102719

Reference:
Pete Knight: The Cowboy King by Darrell Knight
Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd.,, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-55059-274-0, (1-55059-274-2)
Pete Knight was one of rodeo's first international superstars. A Canadian champion bronc rider who also won championships in the United States through the 1920s & '30s, as well as fans in Australia and Europe. His earnings in the rodeo arena rivaled that of top business executives of his day, as well as professional atheletes. Happily married and with a newborn baby girl, his life was tragically cut short in the rodeo arena. Rumors and myths abound about this bronc-riding legend of a man, and as time goes by the stories have evolved to the point where it can be hard to tell truth from fiction. Some say Pete Knight's last ride was on his greatest nemesis, a horse called Midnight...
Darrell Knight is the great-nephew of legendary bronc rider, Pete Knight, as well as a founding member of Canada's Rodeo Hall of Fame and Historical Association, established in 1981.

Pete Knight Wikipedia

Pete Knight: World Champion Bucking Horse Rider of the 1930s
http://www.peteknight.net/

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of this collection

2004 June 26 Answer To It Makes No Difference Now
78rpm Bluebird B-8149
2004 June 27 It's Great To Be Back In The Saddle Again
78rpm Bluebird B-8753
2004 July 18 Balladeer of the Golden West
33rpm Camden OCS-944
2004 July 19 How My Yodeling Days Began
33rpm RCA VKLI-7426
2004 July 23 How My Yodeling Days Began
33rpm Camden CAL-2222
2004 July 24 Living Legend
33rpm Starday SLP-300
2004 July 27 K. P. Blues
33rpm Starday SLP-389
2004 July 29 Living Legend
33rpm Gusto SLP-300
2004 July 31 32 Wonderful Years
33rpm Camden CAL-846
2004 Aug 02 32 Wonderful Years
33rpm Camden CAL-787 (Australia)
2004 Aug 03 32 Wonderful Years
33rpm Camden CAS-846(e)
2004 Aug 04 All Time Favorites
33rpm CRM DVLI-0584 (Canada)
2004 Aug 10 My Old Lasso Is Headed Straight for You
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3486
2004 Aug 10 It's a Cowboy's Night to Howl
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3439
2004 Aug 11 Roll Along, Kentucky Moon
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3209
2004 Aug 12 The Old Barn Dance
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3337
2004 Aug 13 I'm Still Waiting for You
78rpm Regal Zonophone ME-66
2004 Aug 16 32 Wonderful Years
45rpm RCA Victor 47-8205
2004 Aug 17 Huggin', Squeezin', Kissin', Teasin'
45rpm RCA Victor 47-5045
2004 Aug 19 One Golden Curl
45rpm Decca ED-2204 Extended Play
2004 Aug 22 Away Out on the Mountain
45rpm Decca 9-30340
2004 Aug 24 32 Wonderful Years
33rpm Camden CAL-787 (Canada)
2004 Aug 27 All Time Favorites
33rpm SMI DVLI-0584 (United States)
2004 Sep 02 Sway Back Pinto Pete
78rpm Regal Zonophone G-23155
2004 Sep 05 No Letter Today
33rpm Camden CAL-2171 (New Zealand)
2004 Sep 06 No Letter Today
33rpm Camden CAS-2171 (Australia)
2004 Sep 10 No Letter Today
33rpm RCA Camden CAS-2171(e) (U.S.A. blue label)
2004 Sep 18 No Letter Today
33rpm RCA Camden CAS-2171(e) (U.S.A. green label)
2004 Sep 19 Wilf Carter Singing His Songs of the West
33rpm WCE-3
2004 Sep 24 32 Wonderful Years
33rpm Decca-Camden CDN-5127 (Great Britain)
2004 Sep 27 32 Wonderful Years
33rpm Camden-Pickwick CDN-5127 (Canada)
2004 Oct 03 Echoing Hills Yodel Back to Me
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3523
2004 Oct 05 Living Legend
33rpm Sparton SLP-300
2004 Oct 11 All Time Favorites
8-Track Tape Cassette RCA DVS1-0584
2004 Oct 14 The Hits of Wilf Carter
8-Track Tape Cassette RCA KES1-8099
2004 Oct 16 Balladeer of the Golden West
33rpm Camden CAS-944 (Canada green label)
2004 Oct 22 Balladeer of the Golden West
33rpm Camden CAS-944 (Canada blue label)
2004 Oct 23 Balladeer of the Golden West
33rpm Camden CAL-944 (Canada)
2004 Oct 25 The Rescue from Moose River Gold Mine
78rpm Bluebird B-4601
2004 Oct 27 Down the Old Cattle Trail
78rpm Bluebird B-4988
2004 Nov 01 X's From Down in Texas
45rpm Decca 9-30633
2004 Nov 05 Good-Bye Maria
45rpm RCA Victor 48-0523
2004 Nov 06 I Wish There Were Only Three Days in the Year
45rpm RCA Victor 48-0514
2004 Nov 09 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
78rpm RCA Victor 21-0392
2004 Nov 10 Roll On, Dreamy Texas Moon
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3375
2004 Nov 11 The Call of the Range
78rpm Regal Zonophone MR-3570
2004 Nov 12 Maple Leaf Waltz
78rpm Decca 29535
2004 Nov 13 The Alpine Milkman
78rpm Decca 29671
2004 Nov 20 The Rare Ones
33rpm Pinto WC-501
2004 Nov 22 Reminiscin' with Montana Slim
33rpm Longhorn/Stetson HAT-3085
2004 Nov 27 Brown-Eyed Prairie Rose
33rpm Cowgirlboy 5044
2004 Nov 28 Dawn on the Prairie
33rpm Cowgirlboy 5045
2004 Nov 30 More Days of the Yodeling Cowboys
33rpm Cowgirlboy 5012
2004 Dec 01 The Days of the Yodeling Cowboys
33rpm Cowgirlboy 5003
2004 Dec 04 When It's Roll-Call in the Bunkhouse
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-8711
2004 Dec 05 What a Wonderful Mother of Mine
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-8865
2004 Dec 06 Midnight the Unconquered Outlaw
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7186
2004 Dec 07 The Last Ride Down Lariat Trail
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7259
2004 Dec 09 The Preacher and the Cowboy
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7261
2004 Dec 12 Reminiscin' with Wilf Carter
33rpm Camden CAM-83 (Australia)
2005 Jan 08 Roll Along Moonlight
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7262
2005 Jan 09 Don't Let Me Down, Old Pal
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7263
2005 Jan 10 Rose of My Heart
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7264
2005 Jan 10 There'll Be No Blues Up Yonder
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7265
2005 Jan 11 Under the Light of the Texas Moon
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7266
2005 Jan 11 Old Alberta Plains
78rpm Montgomery Ward M-7267

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