A Choir Boy Sings All Alone Tonight; An Old Man's Story
date: label: recording date
content: 1928
name: label: recording artist
content: Evans, Frank
label: recording artist
content: Luther, Frank
label: manufacturer
content: Challenge
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Frank Evans. side 1: A Choir Boy Sings All Alone Tonight; side 2: An Old Man's Story (Challenge 944)<br>78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1928 and released on various Plaza Music Company labels.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Frank Evans is a pseudonym on Challenge for Frank Luther.</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: 1996.0320.15877
label: collector/donor number
content: 5461
label: maker number
content: 944
label: accession number
content: 1996.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0320.15877
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