[78-L] If you have the BS discography...?!

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Tue Sep 22 20:23:09 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Labels of GG & Radiex 1262-B give mx as 106, without prefix, by Cotton 
> Blossom Orchestra.
> GG/Rad 1263-B is John Henry Blues (Handy) by New Orleans Blue Nine = 
> Harlem Harmony Kings.
> Rust & Max Vreede give A-104/105 for the HHK, recd NY c.Apr 1921, on Pm 
> 12003.
> Is 106 also in this mx series?
> Label of Pm 12003-A Hard Time Blues mentions mx H104 [thus prefix H on 
> label].
> Other mxs in the early Pm 12000 series are normally in a 1100 series.
> Maybe related is (?):
> Katherine Handy, c.Jan 1922, Pm 12011, mxs B-102/103.
> Alberta Hunter has mxs P-120-125, from BS, on Pm, recd May 1921.
>
True...but I have (or had?) a GG issue with *P*106 in the "wax!" As well, 
the tune
is credited to "Handy" (W. C.?), and is considerably "jazzier" than any 
GG-house-
band recordings I have ever heard...so it is very possibly a Black Swan 
original
done by an unknown (to me) Black band?

Anyone know anything about "Draggin' the Dragon"...?!

Steven C. Barr




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