[78-L] $1,000 for a business card?

[Cary Ginell]

Heck no. I don't think it's worth it, but it's certainly authentic. I have better things to spend a thousand clams on, if I could afford it!
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:41:14 +0200
> From: ekluwer at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] $1,000 for a business card?
> 
> Hi Cary,
> 
> Did YOU actually made the bid on this item..??
> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Why not? Rodgers was a self-promoter. He took any small amount of success
> > and aggrandized it. He gets on a little local radio station and blows it up
> > out of proportion to proclaim himself as a "National Radio Artist." He sold
> > himself to Ralph Peer this way. And he continued using that phrase after
> > the Bristol sessions, even though he still had no further radio experience.
> > As for the variety of instruments, I'm not sure of your point. Rural string
> > musicians often played multiple instruments. There is a well-distributed
> > picture of this group that features Rodgers, wearing rimless glass, playing
> > a banjo, yet he never recorded on any instrument other than guitar. The
> > Jimmie Rodgers Entertainers was not "set up," it was just a group of
> > friends that played together wherever they could. There was probably no
> > formalized arrangement among the members. Rodgers split from the group
> > literally on the eve of his first recording session.
> >
> > I think it was not only plausible that Rodgers would have cards printed up
> > (they weren't expensive), but perfectly in line with his personality and
> > habits to do so. When it was done was beside the point. They were local
> > performers in the Asheville area in the spring of 1927, looking for other
> > avenues. Makes perfect sense to me.
> >
> > Cary Ginell
> >
> >
> > > From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> > > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:28:43 -0700
> > > Subject: Re: [78-L] $1,000 for a business card?
> > >
> > > I doubt that this card comes from before the Bristol sessions because
> > > just appearing on a local Ashville NC station would not make them
> > > "National Radio Artists", and supposedly they were unknowns when that
> > > session occurred. Especially considering the variety of instruments
> > > listed, could he have set up a company which provided performers for
> > > events, not necessarily including JR himself?
> > >
> > > Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> > >
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > from: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> > > >> It's the fonts that make it questionable. And was P.O. Box the usual
> > term?
> > >
> > > Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
> > > > This is the group that split up before the Bristol session of August
> > 1927,
> > > > with Jimmie Rodgers going off to be a solo artist and the remaining
> > members
> > > > becoming the Tenneva Ramblers. And somebody has even bid on it!
> > > >
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/JIMMY-RODGERS-ENTERTAINERS-BUSINESS-CARD-1927-Ashboro-NC-Teneva-RamblersOriginal-/330721725741?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4d008d0d2d
> > > >
> > > > Cary Ginell
> > >
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