Here Comes the Sun
date: label: date made
content: 1930
name: label: recording artist
content: Vincent Lopez Orchestra
label: manufacturer
content: Durium Products Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Vincent Lopez Orchestra. Here Comes the Sun (Hit of the Week 1089).<br>78 rpm.</p>
label: Description
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
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
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
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John C. and Margaret E. Ewers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0185.17
label: maker number
content: 1089
label: accession number
content: 1980.0185
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0185.17
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: 9 1/2 in; x 24.13 cm