[78-L] Lucille Bogan 78 questions

[Harold Aherne]

"Shave 'em Dry" by Lucille Bogan was recorded on Tuesday, 5 March 1935 for ARC, the
American Record Corporation (i.e. the company formed in 1929 from the merger of 
Pathé, Cameo and Regal-Plaza). The matrix number is 16972-1. It was pressed on 
Banner 33475, Melotone M.13442, Oriole 8487, Perfect 0322 and Romeo 5487.
It was likely marketed as a race record and does appear in race series on Perfect 
and probably Oriole and Romeo as well, but the Banner and Melotone issues were
interspersed among those labels' popular fare. Your best source for information about
Lucille Bogan's recorded output is "Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943" by Dixon
et al. It's available at Amazon (not inexpensively, but well worth it for anyone seriously
interested in collecting/listening to this genre).
 
However--and there's always a however!--the take of "Shave 'em Dry" commonly
issued on LP may not be the one generally issued on 78. The aforementioned
discography has a version of "Shave 'em Dry" without a matrix number that's marked 
"ARC unissued" and the authors speculate that it's "believed to have come from this
session and is sometimes noted as '16972-2'; it may have been issued on a restricted-
circulation party 78". 
 
Offhand, can't find any info about the other title you mentioned.
 
-HA