[78-L] Roland Hayes discography?

[Valerie Langfield]

>The A440 issue prompts me to ask - Is there an online or print discography
>of Roland Hayes?
I looked in his autobiography _Angel Mo' and her son Roland Hayes_ by 
MacKinley Helm (Little, Brown & Co: Boston, 1943) but there are no 
appendices, not even an index. :( He does however describe how he cut up 
5 records of spirituals because he felt the terms were 'ungenerous' 
(p166-7). According to Jeffrey P. Green's article 'Roland Hayes in 
London 1921', in _Black Perspectives in Music_, vol 10 no 1, Spring 
1982, pp 29-42, this was in 1921, which ties in with your HMV item (but 
perhaps you have this article already).

You've looked through the British Library's National Sound Archive in 
London, their online catalogue, I imagine? (I've not looked to see what 
there is there.) I was in touch briefly some years ago with his daughter 
Afrika - she is/was a pianist with the Boston Ballet, and _her_ daughter 
is/was a dancer. I don't know if there's any information available 
through them.

I'd be _really_ interested to know what else you find - many, many 
thanks for the discography so far.

Valerie


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>I've been trying to 'accumulate' a listing, but haven't gotten very far - if
>there is not
>an existing discography, perhaps members of the list would fill in the
>missing details.

>ROLAND HAYES recordings
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>1921 HMV - unissued/destroyed

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Valerie Langfield
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