[78-L] Salvation and record plug

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Nov 25 11:49:17 PST 2013


Yeah,love that one.

dl

On 11/25/2013 11:14 AM, Bud Black wrote:
> There's a dead cat on the line.
>
> Bud
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:39 AM,<gdkimball at cox.net>  wrote:
>
>> 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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