[78-L] Salvation and record plug

[gdkimball at cox.net]

I'll have to listen more carefully for that!  Gates was from Atlanta, and the city was a hub of Columbia's field recording.

Gregg


---- Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> I have 'Death's black train....' too.  Wasn't it recorded on location in
> Atlanta?  And not in a studio; you can hear the occasion 'oogah' horn in
> the distance outside the building the recording was made in.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:31 PM, <gdkimball at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have seen many, many copies of "Death's Black Train is Coming" on
> > Columbia 14145-D. That must have sold very well.
> >
> > On the Skillet Lickers' "Liberty" (Columbia 15334-D), the narrator says
> > that they will play "the tune you've been calling for, Liberty off of the
> > Corn Liquor  Still," referring back to their previously released "A Corn
> > Liquor Still in Georgia."  Don't ask me which of the eight parts it appears
> > on, though :-)
> >
> > Gregg
> >
> > ---- Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:
> > > My favorite of his is "Death May Be Your Santa Claus". Probably his
> > > biggest seller.
> > > Mal
> > >
> > > *******
> > >
> > > On 11/23/2013 6:40 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> > > > Rev. J. M. Gates on OKeh 8508 "Will The Coffin Be Your Santa Claus?"
> > advises
> > > > one and all not to plan on buying a player piano but to get a
> > phonograph and an
> > > > OKeh record of "Amazing Grace". Anyone ever run across a record that
> > isn't a
> > > > promo or demo where the performer plugs the label?
> > > >
> > > > (I have now heard Rev. Gates do Amazing Grace about 17 times so I
> > think I've
> > > > racked up enough salvation for a while.)
> > > >
> > > > dl
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