Ghosts in the Grooves – Golden Mystics of Old Time Music

Ghosts in the Grooves

Shellac mysteries! There are ghosts in the shellac of many 78 records: lost tales; vanished musicians; and long-buried sounds. Below are stories I’ve posted on Facebook about some of these Ghosts in the Grooves. (If a Facebook box appears, click the ‘x’ in the upper right corner to exit.). Enjoy!

Richard E. Bowman

CATEGORIES

Music From the 1800s

Ragtime-Era Music

Early New Orleans Jazz

PreWar Jazz & Dance Band

Country & Western Swing

Race Records & Blues

Hawaiian Music

European Music

Asian Music

Sheet Music

Record Company-Labels, Sleeves,

Advertisements, & Catalogs

Posters & Dance Tickets

Miscellaneous

MUSIC FROM THE 1800s

Frankie Silvers

Columbia 15536-D

The Days of

Forty-Nine

RAGTIME-ERA MUSIC

“The Hiawatha Club Sociable”-Michigan, 1899

EARLY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ

The Greatest New Orleans Trumpet Player

Who Never Recorded

Jelly Roll Morton Watches

The Girls Dance Naked

King Oliver is Arrested-1917

“Thought I Heard

Frankie Dusan Shout”

Freddie Keppard Goes to Jail-1912

Eddie Edinborough

“Do You Call That a Buddy”

PreWAR JAZZ & DANCE BAND

Searching For

Paul Davis

Zack Whyte &

His Chocolate Beau Brummels

Louis Armstrong at

Sebastian’s Cotton Club

King Oliver

on Harmograph

Eddie Edinboro

“Do You Call That a Buddy”

Curtis Mosby

Early Recording Artist

in California

Ernie & Emilio Caceres Meet

Robert Crumb &

Dominique Cravic

“Speed Jeffries and

His Night Owls

ABQ Spinners Pay

Tribute to Bix

“Texas and Pacific Blues”

Frenchy’s String Band

RACE RECORDS & BLUES & GOSPEL

Frank Stokes

at Paramount Records

Low-life Shoots

“Blind” Willie Walker

The “Memphis Jug Band”

Is On The Air!

“Blind” Willie Walker

Immortalizes Betty & Dupree

Big Bill Broonzy

“Hey Hey Baby”

The Memphis Jug Band

“Coal Oil Blues”

Clifford Gibson-1929

Frank Edwards

“Terraplane Blues”

Ben Norsingle

“Don’t Send Me To

The ‘Lectric Chair”

Joe Louis, Max Schmeling,

& Memphis Minnie

Ma Rainey in

Breckenridge, Tx

Sacred Steel Gospel

MA RAINEY AT

PARAMOUNT

1923-2023

COUNTRY & WESTERN SWING

White Mountain Orchestra

Victor V-40185

McGinty’s Oklahoma

Cowboy Band 1925-1928

HAWAIIAN MUSIC

Death Comes to

a Musical Star

Toots Paka-

Just a Michigan Farm Girl

Gone Hawaiian

Remarkable Annie Kerr &

Her All-Girl Hawaiian Bands

Two Giants of the Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar-1938:

Dick McIntire and Sol Ho’opi’i

EUROPEAN MUSIC

Frank “Big Boy” Goudie

1935

“PUSSY!”

(British) Oriole P-104

ASIAN MUSIC

Japanese Children’s Records

“Butterfly Label”

Brunswick

Chinese Record

RECORD COMPANY-LABELS, SLEEVES, ADVERTISEMENTS & CATALOGS

Florence Cole-Talbert

Paramount 12187

The Rare “Fetherflex”

78 Record

Rare Argentinian

Victor Record

Vocalion 78 Sleeve

“Old Southern Tunes”

Paramount Book of Blues

1927

His Master’s Voice (HMV)

Catalog-1929

Fifty Million Frenchman

Can’t Be Wrong

Victor Flyer Ad

Jewish Religion & Secular Record-1927

POSTERS & DANCE TICKETS

Mystery

Solved!

Bill Gallaty Band

in 1915

Robichaux Orchestra

in 1916

Happy Thanksgiving

Linquist Hall, Chicago in 1919

SHEET MUSIC

Oh, Hello Central,

Give Me Doctor Jazz

“Ya Gotta Quit Kicking’

My Dog Around”

“Don’t Leave Me Sweetheart”

Domingo Filipino Serenaders

“I’ve Got the Shimmee Blues”-1919

“Has Anyone Seen My Kitty

(Come Pussy, Pussy, Pussy)”-1922

“When You Hear That Dixieland Jazz Band Play”-1918

MISCELLANEOUS

The Elusive

Jap McGee

Emmett Miller

Minus the Greasepaint

Phonograph Hospital

Washington, DC, 1929

The “Jazz-O-Nette”

Party Like It’s 1924!