They Were Tough Babies; Georgia Skin Game
date: label: recording date
content: 1938
name: label: recording artist
content: Morton, Jelly Roll
label: manufacturer
content: Circle
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Jelly Roll Morton. side 1: They Were Tough Babies; side 2: Georgia Skin Game [part 1] (Circle JM-37/38), from the album, <i>Jelly Roll Morton, Volume 5: Bad Man Ballads</i> (Circle Limited Edition #306).<br>78 rpm.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This recording is part of a limited edition 45 twelve-inch record set, <i>The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord.</i> The set is comprised of interviews and musical performances of musician Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941) recorded by American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, from May 23, 1938 to December 14, 1938. In the interviews, Morton recounts his experiences, both in New Orleans and on the road, as a popular musician of the early twentieth century.</p>
label: Description
content: <p><i>The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord</i> limited edition record set was issued by Circle Sound Inc., incrementally with two albums every three months, beginning in late 1947. The recordings were pressed on red vinylite. Album design and typography for this set was by Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst, 1920-1984), a German-born American painter.</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: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Jazz
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 2
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: 1988.0698.2575
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.2575
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: maker number
content: JM-37
label: maker number
content: JM-38
label: serial number
content: 306
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: vinylite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm