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

[David Lennick]

  Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:46:01 -0400
> From: pfeaster at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Buccaneer" lacquers..info please?
> 
> 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?
> 
> This appears to correspond to Laura Boulton's collection 92-365-F ("West
> Indies; various locations; Afro-Caribbean, Haitian, Jamaican, Cuban;
> 1936-1937") at the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
> Bloomington. Looks like the ATM has only open reel tape copies of these
> particular recordings, however -- no discs.
> 
> - Patrick

 

Wonder if they're interested in purchasing these!

dl