I Don't Know Why; I'm With You
date: label: recording date
content: 1931
name: label: recording artist
content: Sleepy Hall and his Collegians
label: manufacturer
content: Melotone
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Sleepy Hall and his Collegians. side 1: I Don't Know Why; side 2: I'm With You (Melotone M 12236).<br>78 rpm.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Sleepy Hall and his Collegians is a pseudonym on Melotone for Red Nichold and His Five Pennies.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Melotone Records was an American budget record label founded by Warner/Brunswick Records, in 1930. Melotone originally featured jazz and popular dance music of the period, most often using pseudonyms for New York area studio musicians on the recordings. In 1932, Melotone was acquired by the American Record Corporation (ARC). The label ceased production in 1938.</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: Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 2
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0698.1172
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.1172
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: collector/donor number
content: H10
label: maker number
content: M 12236
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm