Backwater Blues; Them "Has Been" Blues
date: label: recording date
content: 1927
label: recording date
content: 1926
name: label: recording artist
content: Smith, Bessie
label: recording artist
content: Johnson, James P.
label: recording artist
content: Williams, Clarence
label: manufacturer
content: Hot Jazz Club of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Bessie Smith. side 1: Backwater Blues; side 2: Them "Has Been" Blues (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 105).<br>78rpm. Side 1 was originally recorded in 1927 and released on Columbia 14195-D. Side 2 was originally recorded in 1926 and released on Columbia 14147-D.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] was a bootleg record label, founded around 1946-1947. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings of the 1920s. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings. These recordings first appeared in the record collector’s magazine <i>The Record Changer</i> publicizing the re-issue of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band recordings from 1923.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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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
label: Related Publication
content: Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
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: 1988.0698.2101
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.2101
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: collector/donor number
content: S63
label: maker number
content: HC 105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm