[78-L] "Buccaneer" lacquers..info please?

[David Lennick]

P-94 is Indian Music of Mexico..also has a picture of Laura on the front cover, among other things. Notes missing. Hey, she was a looker!

 

The implied question still remains..why do I have these lacquers (which were among a couple of dozen Cuban and South American Victors from the early 40s), what's the significance of "Buccaneer" on the labels, and for whom would these dubs have been made?

 

dl


 
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:02:14 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Buccaneer" lacquers..info please?
> 
> RCA Victor put out an album of her African recordings in 1939. P-10 
> "African Music -- Rhythm in the Jungle Vol 1" Recorded by Laura C.
> Boulton on the Straus West African Expedition of the Field Museum of
> Natural History. I have a copy of this album minus one of the discs. 
> Green labels, record numbers 84-89. The album cover has several
> photographs including one of Laura, her equipment, and some natives. 
> Anybody know if there was a Volume 2??? 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> Original Message --------
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:46 -0400, David Lennick wrote:
> > I have 10 lacquers with flaking labels (discs are fine, thank you)
> > of material recorded in Haiti, Havana and Nassau, all with
> > "Collection of Laura C. Bolton" around the upper circumference,
> > "Buccaneer" hand written across each label, "1936" for date, and
> > non-sequential numbers like 38A backed with 52. Dances, calypso
> > numbers (I think) like "Miss Tidy, Lend Me Your Pigeon" etc..
> > what exactly is the source for these?
> 
> Buccaneer? Sounds like a pirate outfit to me. 
> 
> From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
> Are you sure it's not Laura C. BoUlton? She was an ethnomusicologist,
> which would fit neatly with the material you have.
> 
> Wackypackia has a small page on her:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Boulton
> 
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