Beech Fork Special; Red Wing
date: label: recording date
content: 1931
name: label: recording artist
content: Frankie and Johnny
label: manufacturer
content: Perfect
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Frankie and Johnny. side 1: Beech Fork Special; side 2: Red Wing (Perfect 12853).<br>78 rpm. This same coupling was released on other American Record Corporation (ARC) labels.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Frankie and Johnny is a pseudonym on Perfect for John McGhee and Frank Welling.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Perfect Records was an American budget record label founded in by Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation, in 1922. Perfect and Pathé became part of the original merger of record labels that formed the American Record Corporation, in 1929. Perfect was discontinued 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: Russell, Tony. Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0320.16400
label: collector/donor number
content: 5428
label: maker number
content: 12853
label: accession number
content: 1996.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0320.16400
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