Turtle Twist; Smilin' the Blues Away
date: label: recording date
content: 1929
name: label: recording artist
content: Jelly Roll Morton Trio
label: manufacturer
content: British Rhythm Society
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Jelly Roll Morton Trio. side 1: Turte Twust; side 2: Smilin' the Blues Away (British Rhythm Society BRS 1011).<br>78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1929 and released on Victor V-38108.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>British Rhythm Society was a 78-rpm record bootleg label founded by American jazz enthusiast and record label manager Dante S. Bollettino in New York, in 1950. Most of the BRS pressings were on non-breakable vinyl. British Rhythm Society was fictional and most likely created as a “club label” akin to legitimate re-issue record labels Hot Record Society and United Hot Clubs of America. Bollettino was also responsible for Jolly Roger Records bootleg label.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: general subject association
content: Music
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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
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Sound Recordings
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 Lucy C. Shain in memory of James Lewis Shain
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0670.064
label: accession number
content: 1978.0670
label: maker number
content: BRS 1011
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0670.064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: vinylite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm