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BEALE STREET SHEIKS (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane): Beale Town Bound
Chicago (Marsh Laboratories): c. August 1927
Paramount 12576 (mx. 4775 – 2)
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BEALE STREET SHEIKS (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane): Mr. Crump Don’t Like It
Chicago (Marsh Laboratories): c. September 1927
Paramount 12552 (mx. 20045 – 2)
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BEALE STREET SHEIKS (Frank Stokes & Dan Sane): Blues in “D”
Chicago (Marsh Laboratories): c. September 1927
Paramount 12552 (mx. 20048 – 2)
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FRANK STOKES: Downtown Blues
Memphis (Auditorium): February 1, 1928
Victor 21272 (mx. BVE 41822 – 1)
(Released: April 20, 1928; Deleted: 1931)
With uncredited second guitar. Take 2, also issued on 21272, is at a different tempo, uses some alternate lyrics, and does not include the reference to 1928. Total sales, according to the Victor production files, were 13,449 copies — so not a particularly rare issue, as regional race records go, although there’s no way of telling for certain how scarce one take may be in relation to the other.
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