Moan Mourners; On Revival Day
date: label: recording date
content: 1930
name: label: recording artist
content: Smith, Bessie
label: recording artist
content: Bessemer Singers
label: manufacturer
content: Hot Jazz Club of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Bessie Smith with the Bessemer Singers. side 1: Moan Mourners; side 2: On Revival Day (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 29).<br> 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1930 and released on Columbia 14538-D.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] was a bootleg record label, founded around 1946-1947. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings of the 1920s. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings. These recordings first appeared in the record collector’s magazine <i>The Record Changer</i> publicizing the re-issue of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band recordings from 1923.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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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: Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 2
label: Related Publication
content: Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
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: 1988.0698.2114
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0698.2114
label: accession number
content: 1988.0698
label: collector/donor number
content: S76
label: maker number
content: HC 29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm