78 RPM - Lange-McKay Orchestra - Leaky Roof Blues / Battleship Kate - Gennett - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Lange-McKay Orchestra
Label:	Gennett
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	5584
Date:	Dec 1924
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	$173
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PRICE GUIDE

$173

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lange-McKay Orchestra	Leaky Roof Blues	Lange	8.0 Rate
B	Wilbur Sweatman And His Acme Syncopators	Battleship Kate	Sweatman, Rives	9.0 Rate

Notes

A mx: 12052 (label); 12 12052B 1 8 A1 (runout);
recorded Richmond, IN, October 14, 1924.
B mx: 9083 (label); 17 9083a 1 7 B (runout);
recorded Richmond, IN, September 20, 1924.

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cyeaman SUBS 18th Jan 2024		Some discographies give Duke Ellington as the pianist on Battleship Kate, which would make this his first issued recording. That identification is controversial, however. It is true that Duke worked with Sweatman around the time Battleship Kate was recorded. It has also been suggested that Duke played on an unissued version of this and another song ("She Loves Me"), made by Gennett in August 1924 but that a different pianist performs on the issued take.



xiphophilos 28th Feb 2019		They must have cleaned up and restored the sound on this record quite a lot. My own record sounds incredibly soft and is only slightly less scratchy than the one on archive.org: mp3



xiphophilos 28th Feb 2019		B side: This song is apparently about a fast-living and heavily tattooed New York character who died in 1922: http://www.buzzworthytattoo.com/tattoo-history-research-articles/battleship-kate-new-york-citys-tattooed-sailor-groupie/

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