Please Papa Come Home; Write a Letter to My Mother
date: label: recording date
content: 1927
name: label: recording artist
content: Beck, Oliver
label: recording artist
content: Ragan, James
label: recording artist
content: Harvey, Roy
label: recording artist
content: Hoke, Bob
label: manufacturer
content: Challenge
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Side 1: James Ragan and Oliver Beck. Please Papa Come Home; side 2: James Ragan. Write a Letter to My Mother (Challenge 390)<br>78 rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1927 and released on Gennett 6303. Side 2 was originally recorded in 1927 and released on Gennett 6288.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>James Ragan and Oliver Beck are pseudonyms on Challenge for Roy Harvey and Bob Hoke.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Challenge Records, introduced in 1927, was a budget record label sold by the Sears-Roebuck Company in their stores and through mail-order. Recordings from other labels such as Banner, Gennett, and Paramount were the source of many Challenge releases as most did not require royalty payments. Many recordings were released using pseudonyms for the recording artists. The last of the Challenge recordings were released in 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: 1996.0320.23371
label: accession number
content: 1996.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0320.23371
label: maker number
content: 390
label: collector/donor number
content: 5550
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