[78-L] Lucille Bogan 78 questions

[Andrea Walsh]

Thank you, Harold!
On Oct 6, 2011 1:12 PM, "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "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
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