[78-L] Lucille Bogan 78 questions

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

Both versions are on the Stash LP which I have : "Copulatin' Blues, 
vol. 2"

BC
Le 6 oct. 11, à 22:12, Harold Aherne a écrit :

> "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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