A High Silk Hat and a Walking Cane; She Was a Moonshiner's Daughter
date: label: recording date
content: 1929
name: label: recording artist
content: Fagan, Bob
label: recording artist
content: Ball, Ray
label: recording artist
content: Marvin, Frank
label: recording artist
content: Chase, Chezz
label: manufacturer
content: Challenge
notes: label: Description
content: <p>side 1: Ray Ball. A High Silk Hat and a Walking Cane; side 2: Bob Fagan. She Was a Moonshiner's Daughter (Challenge 839)<br>78 rpm. This coupling was initially released on various Plaza Music Company labels.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Ray Ball is a pseudonym on Challenge for Frank Marvin.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Bob Fagan is a pseudonym on Challenge for Chezz Chase.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Challenge Records, introduced in 1927, was a budget record label sold by the Sears-Roebuck Company. 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: Description
content: <p>The Plaza Music Company was formed in New York City with the Banner Record label, in 1922. The company acquired several smaller labels in the 1920s including Domino, Jewel, Oriole, and Regal. In 1929, the Plaza Music Company, Cameo Record Corporation, and Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation merged into the American Record Corporation (ARC). Plaza began a single matrix series for all of its labels in 1923, beginning with 5000. ARC would continue using this system after the merger.</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: 1996.0320.11343
label: collector/donor number
content: 14328
label: maker number
content: 839
label: accession number
content: 1996.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0320.11343
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