Why Not Tonight; I Love to Tell the Story
date: label: recording date
content: 1928
name: label: recording artist
content: McGhee, John
label: recording artist
content: Welling, Frank
label: manufacturer
content: Supertone
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Harper and Turner. side 1: Why Not Tonight; side 2: I Love to Tell the Story (Supertone 9391)<br>78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1928 and initially released on Gennett 6690. Side 2 was recorded in 1928 and initially released on Gennett 6874.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Harper and Turner is a pseudonym on Supertone for John McGhee and Frank Welling.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Supertone Records was a record label sold by the Sears-Roebuck Company in their stores and through mail-order. The first pressings of Supertone were made by the Fletcher Record Company and then Bridgeport Die and Machine Company in 1924. Within a year, Sears discontinued the label. Supertone was produced by Straus and Schram from 1925 to 1928 after Sears failed to register the Supertone brand name. In 1928, Sears regained the brand name and sold records produced by Gennett records until 1930. The Brunswick Radio Corporation produced the last of the Supertone records through 1931.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Russell, Tony. Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0320.17335
label: label number
content: 9391
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0320.17335
label: accession number
content: 1996.0320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm