A Midsummer Night’s Playlist • Some June–August Additions to the Collection (Free MP3 Downloads)
New MP3 transfers from some recent additions to the 78 collection, for your enjoyment. We’re always looking to purchase similar material (strong E– minimum, except in the case of true rarities). Let us know what you have in the way of disposables.
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LUCILLE HEGAMIN & HER BLUE FLAME SYNCOPATORS: Lonesome Monday Morning Blues (E–)
New York: c. June 1921 (released August 1921)
Arto 9074 (mx: 18086 – )
No master or take number appears on this pressing, but mx. 18086 is confirmed on some client-label pressings.
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DOUGLAS WILLIAMS FOUR: Kind Daddy (E)
Memphis (Auditorium): September 4, 1928
Victor 21695 (mx. BVE 45476 – 1)
Personnel per Victor recording ledger: Nathaniel Williams (cornet), Douglas Williams (clarinet), Elaine Elliott (piano), Sam Sims (percussion).
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DOC COOK & HIS FOURTEEN DOCTORS OF SYNCOPATION: Brainstorm (E)
Chicago: June 15, 1927 (John Gloetzner, recording engineer)
Columbia 1298-D (mx. W 144334 – 3)
Session logged as Dock Cook & his Dance Orchestra, but changed to Doc Cook & his Fourteen Doctors of Syncopation prior to release. No personnel are listed in the Columbia files.
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KING OLIVER & HIS DIXIE SYNCOPATORS: Slow and Steady (E+)
New York: November 14, 1928
Brunswick 4469 (mx. E 28757 – )
“Joseph Oliver,” arranger, per the Brunswick ledger; no other personnel are listed in the Brunswick files.
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KING OLIVER & HIS DIXIE SYNCOPATORS: I’m Watching the Clock (E+)
New York: September 12, 1928
Brunswick 4469 (mx. E – 28203 – )
Brunswick ledger states only “8 men” (unnamed), plus Oliver as an “extra.”
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CLARENCE WILLIAMS’ ORCHESTRA: Watchin’ the Clock (EE+)
New York: December 19, 1928
Okeh 8663 (mx. W 401466 – C)
No personnel listed in the Okeh files.
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HENRY (RED) ALLEN & HIS ORCHESTRA (vocal by Victoria Spivey): Funny Feathers Blues (E+)
New York: September 24, 1929
Victor V-38088 (mx. BVE 55853 – 2)
No personnel other than Spivey listed in the Victor files.
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CLARENCE WILLIAMS & HIS ORCHESTRA (vocal by Ed Allen and Floyd Casey): Mama Stayed Out (EE-)
New York: July 14, 1933
Brunswick X-25009 (mx. 13545 – 1)
Brunswick issue is unlisted in Jazz Records and derivative works. The catalog number is that of the corresponding Vocalion release, with the addition of an X- prefix. No personnel are listed in the American Record Corporation files.
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ALLEN BROTHERS: New Deal Blues (EE+)
New York: October 3, 1934
Vocalion 02890 (mx. 16098 – 2)
Austin Allen (vocal, banjo); Lee Allen (guitar)
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W. K. (OLD MAN) HENDERSON: Hello World (E+)
Shreveport, LA: February 18, 1930
Hello World 001 (Okeh mx. W 403810 – A)
The lengthy, very faintly recorded chime introduction has been deleted in this transfer.
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BLIND ANDY JENKINS: Hello World Song (Don’t You Go ’Way) (E+)
Shreveport, LA: February 18, 1930
Hello World 001 (Okeh mx. W 403814 – B)
Special issue for independent radio station KWKH (Shreveport), on which “Old Man” Henderson rails against the new radio networks, the federal government, and — a little too late — Wall Street. On the reverse side, Blind Andy Jenkins (one of the most prolific writers of “death-and-disaster” ballads for the country market) goes after the same targets, tossing in chain stores for good measure, all set to the tune of his “Death of Floyd Collins.” From the Okeh matrix cards, it’s clear that talent scout / furniture dealer Polk Brockman had a hand in this venture, taking the publisher credits and collecting royalties on sales of the record. It retailed for 75¢, “postpaid anywhere.”
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