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85 viewsPage from Romy Gosz' 1931 notebook for a recording session in Grafton. thanks to Greg Leider
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Big Bill Broonzy78 viewsHere's an article on Broonzy from the Sunday Post-Crescent August 30, 1964.
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Telegram about Doc Roberts81 viewsHere's the telegram for Doc Roberts' first Paramount recording session in Chicago. He and Ted Parham came from Louisville, KY and left on April 11 and arrived that same day I believe or the next. Then stayed in a hotel, which was a block away from Marsh recording studio at the corner of Wabash and Jackson (Lyon & Healy building. The recorded the next day with Marsh and Hans Krazter, brother-in-law to Otto Moeser and general magager of the NYRL branche office at 218 South Wabash Ave, Chicago.
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95 views101 ,only number in that series I've ever seen...
Practice Record was apparently sold at a dance studio or mail order.It has matrix numbers L-194-6 for the A side and L-195-3 for the B side. Aside from being Grafton masters...L-93 lies between L-90 (Bessie Mae Smith , PM 12922 from May 1930) and L-96 ( The Hokum Boys, PM 12935 from June 1930)
The Dance record matrices ( L-194/L-195) are between L-190 by Robert Peeples on PM 13033 and L-207 by Wesley Long on PM 12932.. issued in June 1930..
The significance of all this is the variety of custom recordings made which used matrices in the L series ,but were NOT blues items, thereby filling gaps in the overall release listing...should anyone be working on that.. To the best of my knowlege these two items have not been brought to anyone's attention before now..
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Wisconsin Blues Connection26 viewsLecture and concert presented at the Wisconsin State Museum in Madison, WI Fall 2006. Featuring Catfish Stevenson and Patrick/Angela Mack lecturing.Dec 03, 2007
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Paramount Blues Festival logo38 viewsDec 03, 2007
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Puritan fake sleeve by Mike Stewart for auction guide40 viewsDec 03, 2007
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Paramount GIG (Grooves in Grafton) original logo idea24 viewsdesigned by Angela MackDec 03, 2007
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Paramount label for Texas Blues Radio39 viewsDec 03, 2007
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Blue Jay Singers in Sheboygan, WI in 195338 viewsA note from Alex:
Here's an article from the Sheboygan Press from 1953 mentioning a performance of the Blue Jay Singers. This is the male quartet that recorded in November 1931 in Grafton, during the same session with King Solomon Hill, Ben Curry and Marshall Owens. Originally from the Birmingham, Alabama area the Blue Jays moved to Chicago and broadcast over the radio and toured the midwestern states in the 1940s and 1950s, esp. univeristy/college circuit. Of the men mentioned being part of the group, only Charles Beal was an original member who recorded in Grafton. One wonders if he was aware that he was at close range of the location where he recorded 22 years before.
Dec 02, 2007
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Broadway Records advertisement 8 June 192636 viewsFound by Alex van der TuukDec 02, 2007
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Paramount Records November 1920 releases40 viewsFound by Alex van der TuukDec 02, 2007
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