The other song is #115 from 1955, My Little Angel Child. It appeared on a King single opposite She's Gone Too Long, which I have. About a year ago a promo version of that single went up on a record auction site and sold for over 300 bucks, so I'm not expecting to come by it any time soon.
2 - In the late 40's DeLuxe seemed to issue records with 4-digit numbers where the last 3 digits were consistent but the first digit were both a "1" or a "3", so some of the label shots of records may display 3xxx while the music file identifies it as being 1xxxx. I couldn't find photo's of all the records so I made obviously-fake photos just so something displays on the player while that file is played.
3 - On a few occasions Roy recorded the same songs several times and I'm pretty certain I have the different versions correctly identified. There are some other minor discrepancies. Some published information shows the songs 42-45 being recorded in 1951 but the matrix numbers assigned to the masters would indicate 1949 so I've left it as that. There's another unissued song that shows Take 1 being recorded on a certain date and Take 2 being recorded five months later. The explanation for that is around 1949 DeLuxe began experimenting with recording music onto acetates and then having someone sing along with the recording onto another acetate at a later date (primitive multi-track recording....they should have consulted Les Paul and his Cadillac flywheel!) but this proved to produce unsatisfactory quality and the process was scrapped.
4 - Roy was only in his early-to-mid 30's when he did his last session for King in May 1959 and he continued recording sporadically into the 1970's. While I feel it would be a worthy project to collate those records, they don't really fit into the scope of this one and it's not a high priority for me.
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