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Artist: Harry C. Browne Label:   Silvertone Country: USA Catalogue: 46634 Date: 1916 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Want Price Guide: $233 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Harry C. Browne	Nigger Love A Watermelon, Ha! Ha! Ha!		Rate

Notes

The artist is not listed on the label
Baritone solo (with) banjo and orchestra accompaniment
Early Popular, Ragtime, Novelty

Harry Clinton Browne (vocals and banjo); with unknown others

Matrix 46634, take 2, recorded New York, NY, March 14, 1916.

Main release: Columbia A1999 (June 1916)
Reissued on Silvertone 3176

Listed first in the Spring 1917 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, page 809.

Images

Number: 3253444  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: Mike Gann Description: Silvertone 46634 label

Number: 3253951  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Spring 1917 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, page 809.

Number: 3708478  Uploaded By: Chrystam Description: The later 1917 version

Comments and Reviews

Mike Gann 31st Mar 2023		Then I'm glad that we both learned something. And your time and effort to upload all of these old catalogs is very much appreciated.
xiphophilos 31st Mar 2023		This may be a bit difficult to see on the image because the database reduced its size. But the listings are organized alphabetically by song title, and the song titles are halfway readable.
xiphophilos 31st Mar 2023		Fortunately, I don't trust myself. ;-) I looked it up again and couldn't find this record in the Fall 1916 catalog. Instead, it shows up first under Vocal Selections in the Spring 1917 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog, page 809. So you were right after all. Now we know that this orange label was used Fall 1916 to Spring 1917.
Mike Gann 31st Mar 2023		No, that's fine. I trust what you say. I'm just trying to learn something here and thanks for the info.
xiphophilos 31st Mar 2023		If you'd like, you can check that out yourself. I've uploaded the relevant pages of the Sears catalog for Fall 1916 here.
xiphophilos 31st Mar 2023		You can't go by the catalog numbers here, just to make that clear. These catalog numbers are identical with the original Columbia matrix numbers. They have nothing to do with the order in which Silvertone released these records.
Mike Gann 31st Mar 2023		Then the catalog no. and date should be correct at 1917 for this record even though it has the 1916 label design.
xiphophilos 31st Mar 2023		That record, Silvertone 46448, has been correctly entered as a 1917 release. It features the purple label with gold print that was only used in 1917, as I mentioned below, and I even found it in the Fall 1917 Sears catalog (see my October 2015 comment on that record).
Mike Gann 31st Mar 2023		Then we need to figure out when this was released https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/46448
xiphophilos 31st Mar 2023		This label, the silver piper on orange, just FYI, is a 1916 label. Sears, Roebuck and Co. used it when they introduced the new Silvertone records in their Fall 1916 catalog. In 1917, they changed to a simpler design that featured the piper only in a small, round golden circle above the SILVERTONE name in gold on a purple background.

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