Sing You Sinners
date: label: recording date
content: 1930
name: label: recording artist
content: Harlem Hot Chocolates
label: recording artist
content: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
label: manufacturer
content: Durium Products Incorporated
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Harlem Hot Chocolates. Sing You Sinners (Hit of the Week 1045).<br>78 rpm. Harlem Hot Chocolates is a pseudonym on Hit of the Week for Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Hit of the Week Records was an American record label introduced in 1930. The company manufactured and sold low-priced records made of Durium, a flexible synthetic resin coated on a brown paper base, rather than typical records made of shellac.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>A new Hit of The Week record was released usually every Thursday every week and was sold in newsstands across the country. The single-faced records originally sold for 15 cents each and had reached 20 cents by the end of the production in 1932.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Popular musicians of the day who recorded for Hit of the Week include Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (under the pseudonym Harlem Hot Chocolates), Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor, Ralph Kirbery, Helen Rowland, Vincent Lopez, Joe Venuti, Sam Lanin, and Phil Spitalny.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Hit of the Week recordings feature U. S. Patent #1915384, dated June 27, 1933 by Joseph Reilly and Hal T. Beans assignors, by Mesne assignments, to Durium Products Corporation for a method of making phonograph records.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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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. 1
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: 1988.0698.1200
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.1200
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: collector/donor number
content: H39
label: maker number
content: 1045
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: resin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm