You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down; Brown Skin Girls
date: label: recording date
content: 1936
name: label: recording artist
content: Lofton, Cripple Clarence
label: manufacturer
content: Melotone
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Cripple Clarence Lofton. side 1: Brown Skin Girls; side 2: You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down (Melotone 6-11-66).<br>78 rpm. This same coupling was released on other American Record Corporation (ARC) labels.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Melotone Records was an American budget record label founded by Warner/Brunswick Records, in 1930. Melotone originally featured jazz and popular dance music of the period, most often using pseudonyms for New York area studio musicians on the recordings. In 1932, Melotone was acquired by the American Record Corporation (ARC). The label ceased production in 1938.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>In 1929, the American Record Corporation (ARC) was established with the merger of three companies. These were the Cameo Record Corporation (which owned Cameo, Lincoln and Romeo Records), the Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation (which owned Actuelle, Pathé, and Perfect), and the Plaza Music Company (which owned Banner, Domino, Jewel, Oriole, and Regal).</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: Abrams, Steven. 78 rpm Discographical Project
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: 1988.0698.1547
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.1547
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: collector/donor number
content: L40
label: maker number
content: 6-11-66
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm