[78-L] KKK records

[Michael Biel]

Han Enderman wrote:
> Sutton-Nauck ARLC says 
> (p112): "The Rodeheaver Record Company (Rainbow) also issued Klan material 
> on its Special personal label in the mid-1920s.", 
>   
It depends on how you define "issued".  I see an item about a Special 
record (no number or artist given) of  "The Stuttering Klansman" and 
"The Klansman and the Rain".  Of course Rainbow is not Special.  Rainbow 
was Rodeheaver's commercial record company label, and Special was a 
label used when a private individual contracts the recording company as 
a recording facility to make a private record for their own use,  If 
Rodeheaver wanted to issue the record for sale, it would have been on 
Rainbow.  Something on Special is like something printed in a Kinkos. 
> and a little more on p.179.
>
> The elephant pictured on (Gnt/KKK) 75007-A (mx 11921, just after Morton's 11907-17) 
> has letters GOP on its side and subsequently I found that the term 
> "Grand Old Party" is a traditional nickname for the Republican Party.
>
> Han Enderman
> ===
>   
Of course I do not have a very high regard for the Republican Party, but 
what makes this a KKK record?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


>> Last I heard, Mike Montgomery (of player-piano fame) was collecting
>>     
>  > Rainbow Records, including KKK discs. Don
>
>  From what I remember from the last time this subject came up 5 or so 
> years ago, it was determined that Homer never recorded any of them 
> himself nor issued then on his label, but he might have recorded at 
> Gennett the same day as one of the Klan records. However, I think 
> someone turned up a Klan songbook which his publishing company printed 
> as a print contract job.
> (mb)
> ---
> I have heard that possibly Homer 
> Rodeheaver also recorded Klan material but have not been able to 
> document any
> (mal)
> <<<