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

Popular

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

“Now He’ll Go No More

A-Roaming”–

The Ballad of “Mustang Gray”

Hurrah! Hurrah! WE Bring the Jubilee! 1800s

“Sam Bass” Composed in the 1870s. Recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928

“Now He’ll Go No More

A-Roaming”–

The Ballad of “Mustang Gray”

RAGTIME-ERA MUSIC

“The Hiawatha Club Sociable”-Michigan, 1899

“PHONOGRAPH KING”

Paterson, N.J.1923

“I Got Mine”: John Queen; Arthur Collins; and Frank Stokes.

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

Zack Whyte &

His Chocolate Beau Brummels

Searching For

Paul Davis

Louis Armstrong at

Sebastian’s Cotton Club

Zack Whyte &

His Chocolate Beau Brummels

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

It Doesn’t Get Any Hotter!

Windy City Jazzers. Gennett Records Advertisement

Photos of Okeh Recording Artist Virginia Willrich

Birmingham Bluetette on Herwin 1925-1926

Wisconsin Roof Orchestra, Puritan Records 1926

Buddy Bolden Arrested for Insanity 1906

Green Parrot Inn Orchestra 1927

Jack Teagarden and Wingy Manone Bury Their Treasure

“Texas and Pacific Blues”

Frenchy’s String Band

Tick Gray–From Chicago to the Savoy Ballroom to Jones, Michigan

White Dance Bands in the Windy City in Early 1920s

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

Where Business Met the Blues: Lovie Austin and Mayo Williams 1923

Mississippi Sheiks, “New Stop And Listen”

Champion 50021 1932

Bo Carter, “Let Me Roll Your Lemon” 1935

Cincinnati Jug Band, “Newport News” 1929

Lucille Bogan, “Shave Me Dry”, Unissued Alternate Take 1935

Blind Boy Fuller, “Step It Up and Go” 1940

Charley Jordan, “Keep It Clean No. 3” 1930

St. Louis Bluesman Clifford Gibson, “Whiskey Moan Blues” 1929

Frank Stokes Gets His Photograph Taken 1928

“Trigger Slim” Walks to the Electric Chair 1940

Bessie Smith Endorses Fraudulent Hair Product 1927

Black Entrepreneur Winston Holmes Starts Record Label

Ajax–The Forgotten “Race Record” Label

Black Patti Advertisements in the Chicago Defender 1927

The Reverend Gary Davis (as “Blind Gary”) “I Belong to the Band” 1935

“W.C. Handy’s Famous Comic Blues–Foor the Ukulele” (1925)

Blind Blake Performs in Macon, Georgia 1927

Rube Lacy, “Mississippi Jail House Groan” 1928

Paramount Record Company is Reborn 1946

“Mobile Strugglers.” 1949

Charley Jordan Wants to “Keep It Clean”

Rambling Thomas on Broadway 1928

Dixieland Jug Blowers, “Banjoreno” 1926

Bessie Smith and Black Southern Vaudeville–1920

Irene Scruggs, “Sorrow Valley Blues” 1927

Texas Alexander Needs Your Love

Searching for “Funny Papa” Smith

Blind Willie Walker Immortalizes Betty And Dupree

Was “Papa” Charlie Jackson’s Wife Called “Mama” Katie Jackson?

New Stars for Columbia: Coley Jones; Lewis Black; Dallas String Band 1928

Bessie Smith Plays Birmingham in the 1920s

Henry “Ragtime Texas” Thomas and Mack McCormick

Old Southern Jug Band, Early Jug Band Recordings 1924

Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon “I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone” 1929

Another Take on “Race Records” Advertisements

COUNTRY & WESTERN SWING

White Mountain Orchestra

Victor V-40185

McGinty’s Oklahoma

Cowboy Band 1925-1928

Caricatures of the Great Harry “Mac” McClintock

Otto Gray and His Oklahoma Cowboys: Happy Holidays!

Vocalion Records Mistakenly Puts White Duo in Blues Ad

Owen Wister and “Ten Thousand Cattle”

Newton Gaines, “Wreck of the Six Wheeler” on Timely Tunes

Blind Uncle Gaspard and Delma Lachney Vocalion. 1929

Watts and Wilson, “The Sporting Cowboy” 1927

John Dilleshaw and John Fahey, “Spanish Fandango”/”Hawaiian Two-Step” 1929/1973

Dick Devall, “Tom Sherman’s Barroom” DICK DEVALL, “TOM SHERMAN’S BARROOM” 1929

“Pistol Pete’s Midnight Special” 1926

Uncle Dave Macon and Bob Dylan: “Rock About My Sara Jane” 1927, 1973

Bill and Belle Reed, “Old Lady and the Devil”

Carolina Night Hawks, “Governor Al Smith of President” 1928

Bob Wills at Drug Store in Turkey, Texas

Uncle Pat’s Fiddlin’ Fools –New Flexo

H.H. Hunt, The Cartwright Brothers, and “Utah Carrol” 1893-1928

G.B. Grayson: Blind Man Going Down the Lee Highway

Goodbye Albert Cain, Whoever You Were. You Played a Mean Guitar!

BILLIE MAXWELL (THE COWGIRL SINGER). “BILLY VENERO, PARTS 1 & 2”. VICTOR V-40148 1929

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

Victor Hawaiian

Records Catalog 1917

Ukulele Lady. Honolulu.

(circa 1930)

Two Giants of the Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar-1938:

Dick McIntire and Sol Ho’opi’i

King Bennie Nawahi Goes to Sweden–1930

David Kahoano at the B.F. Keith Theater (circa 1920)

EUROPEAN MUSIC

Frank “Big Boy” Goudie

1935

“PUSSY!”

(British) Oriole P-104

Classy French Record Catalog Featuring Josephine Baker. 1930

Racy Ad for

Josephine Baker Film 1929

Tommy Handley, “Po-Kee O-Kee Oh” “The Victory” Record

POPULAR MUSIC

Emmett Miller: Best of Times, Worst of Times

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

Faux-Crocodile Skin Record Skin Record Sleeve

Company Record Sleeve for “Whiteley’s Radio Department”

Mexican Radio Station “XEXW” Record Sleeve

Twelve-Inch Art Deco Belgium Record Sleeve 1930

HMV Record Sleeves Designed for South Africa circa 1930

I’m Not Saying the Paramount Record Company Was Cheap, But …

“Orquestra Yribarren” Record Picture Sleeve 1925

French Art Deco Record Sleeve mid-1930s

VOCALION 78 SLEEVE : “OLD SOUTHERN TUNES”

Seger Ellis 78 Art Sleeve 1928

Three Columbia Art Sleeves 1928-1930

Al Jolson 78 Art Sleeve 1929

Victor Woodbock Panel Sleeve 1928/29

Phantom Paramount Sleeve

Vocalion 78 Sleeve

“Old Southern Tunes”

Paramount Book of Blues

1927

His Master’s Voice (HMV)

Catalog-1929

Banner for Columbia

Advertising Flyer 1931

Jackie Coogan Picture

Label Record 1925

“Polly Portable Phonograph” Needle Packet 1928

Newspaper Advertisement for

“Peg Leg” Howell’s

“Coal Man Blues” 1927

Postcard Advertising

Daisy Martin’s

First Blues Record 1921

“Doll Night Dance” at Guyon’s Paradise Ballroom 1929

Store Sticker for Legendary Record Store in Los Angeles

Columbia Records Catalog

March 1922

Paramount Phonograph

Needle Pack 1920s

“Doll Night Dance” at Guyon’s Paradise Ballroom

1929

Billy Plonkit and His Band

1935

Paramount Portrait Labels

Have You Heard?

“Jelly Roll Morton’s

New Orleans Memories”?

French Ultraphone

Picture Disc 1933

Maori Picture Label

Parlophone Record

Blues–A Special List of

Victor Records 1923

Spanish Regal Catalog

Supplement August, 1931

“A Brand New Bevy of Blues”–Bessie and Clara 1925

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

Band Promoter Books

“Frisco Syncopators”

Commits Suicide 1922

Bill Gallaty Band

in 1915

Robichaux Orchestra

in 1916

Graphic Design from

Advertising Poster 1929

Andy Kirk is Missing

One of His Clouds of Joy

Robichaux Orchestra

in 1916

“Prof. Murray” Plays

the Dolan Opera House 1919

Jan Garber in

Johnson City, Tennessee 1928

Happy Thanksgiving

Linquist Hall, Chicago in 1919

“The Famous

Wolverine Jazz Band” 1924

Earl Fuller Dance Band Poster with Terrible Advertising

SHEET MUSIC

Oh, Hello Central,

Give Me Doctor Jazz

“Ya Gotta Quit Kicking’

My Dog Around”

“Don’t Leave Me Sweetheart”

Domingo Filipino Serenaders

Sweet Mama (Papa’s Getting Mad) by the “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” Sheet Music 1920

Jesse Rodgers’ “Song Collection From Old Mexico” 1935

“Bessie Couldn’t Help It”

Sheet Music 1930

Jelly Roll Morton’s

“The ‘Jelly Roll’ Blues” 1915

“Since You Came Along”

Sheet Music 1931

“Winin’ Boy Blues”.

Music Published in 1950, Probably Composed About 1908.

Mamie Smith,

“Daddy Your Mama is Lonesome for You” 1921

Harry Owens and

Poo-Poo-ly 1940

“Winin’ Boy Blues”.

Music Published in 1950, Probably Composed About 1908.

“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!

Damballa Wèdo Singers

“Voodoo Songs of Haiti” 1940

“JAZZ HOT”—The “International Review of Jazz Music”

The Program Last Night

Was a Wow!

Louis Armstrong at

“Sebastian’s Cotton Club” 1930

Melquiades Rodriguez aka

“The Blind Fiddler” 1938

The Death Certificate of

Mamie Desdunes

The “Jazz-O-Nette”—Party Like It’s 1924!

Pharos 78

Armenian Record 1927

Black Musical Trio—1924

Two Jack Payne Records:

One 10 Inch, the Other 3 1/2

The Wild and Crazy World

of Bud Averill

What Were These Record Company Boxes Used For?