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The company relied on offices and agents in nearby Chicago to find and record artists for its blues and jazz offerings. [4] Paramount's race record series was launched in 1922 with vaudeville blues songs by Lucille Hegamin and Alberta Hunter. [5] The company had a large mail-order operation which was a key to its early success. [2]
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of is a two-CD album of blues, country, and old-time music recordings that were originally released in the 1920s and 1930s on 78 rpm records. Subtitled The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting, it is a compilation of songs from rare and hard-to-find records. It was released in 2006.
The album concentrates on the first electrically recorded blues discs made in North America between 1927 and 1931. [8] It covers a broad range of blues music, from Mississippi Delta artists such as, Charley Patton, Son House and Skip James to Memphis songsters like Frank Stokes and jug bands including the Memphis Jug Band and Cannon's Jug Stompers, Piedmont blues players like Blind Willie ...
Race records is a term for 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s. [1] They primarily contained race music, comprising various African-American musical genres, blues, jazz, and gospel music, rhythm and blues and also comedy. These records were, at the time, the majority of commercial recordings of ...
In 1961, Columbia released King of the Delta Blues Singers, the first album to feature Johnson exclusively. [32] It includes a mix of recordings originally issued on 78s and previously unreleased material. A follow-up album, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II was issued in 1970, [33] again with some original and unreleased recordings.
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.