[78-L] Early Blues in Europe

[Birgit Lotz Verlag]

Thanks to all who were kind enough to offer thoughts and facts.
I always wondered whether US radio stations aired "race" records before 
the 1950s. The irony is that Gunter Boas - a German record collector, 
jazz pianist and blues vocalist - upon being freed from Buchenwald 
concentration camp (he had listened to enemy radio) moderated "Blues for 
Monday", a radio program entirely devoted to classic vocal blues on AFN, 
from 1949 through to 1957. He might well have been the first person 
anywhere in the world to have done so, can anyone prove me wrong?
And I am still curious how Panassie, Delaunay, et al knew about vocal 
blues 78s...

Rainer E. Lotz
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