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Artist:Roy Byrd And His Blues Jumpers
Label:  Mercury
Country:USA
Catalogue:8184
Date:Aug 1950
Format:10"
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 2 Own
Price Guide:$300
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PRICE GUIDE
$300


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
ARoy Byrd And His Blues JumpersHadacol BounceNettlesRate
BRoy Byrd And His Blues JumpersHer Mind Is GoneByrdRate


Notes

A&B side publisher: Wing, BMI
A side label matrix: 7820
B side label matrix: 7804-3

Images



Number: 605305  THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: hiphoptwo
Edited By: fixbutte
Description: Mercury 8184 A side label - second issue


Number: 1618919 
Uploaded By: xiphophilos
Description: Mercury 8184 B side label


Number: 1618589 
Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: Mercury ad


Comments and Reviews
 
rhythmdog
18th Feb 2024
 
Quote:
Well, I hadda call it somethin'! - Louisiana State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc

A "politician" in the classic Louisiana style!
 

 
laviolet
6th Aug 2022
 Here's the official audio of "Hadacol Bounce."

 

 
fixbutte
19th Apr 2018
 Very interesting read, laviolet:

At the time [1951], Hadacol was the second biggest advertiser in the US, right after Coca-Cola.
 

 
laviolet
18th Apr 2018
 For years bios of Professor Longhair have held that "Hadacol Bounce" was withdrawn because Mercury was offended by the song's blatant commercialism. Now we know that story had it backward, as "Bounce" was added to the record as a Hadacol tie-in. Two years later Hadacol was defunct, collapsing under massive debt and government pressure. For a history of Hadacol, see here and here.
 

 
fixbutte
18th Apr 2018
 You're welcome. I've also flipped sides because Hadacol Bounce was apparently the A-side of the second issue of Mercury 8184.

I kept August 1950 as release month like in the given discographical source although a September release for the Hadacol coupling seems more probable to me. Bill Nettles' recording of his own composition for Mercury was apparently made only in August and was released in September 1950 as well, on Mercury 6275 (BB Sep 16, 1950, p. 38; Sep 30, 1950, p. 100).
 

 
laviolet
18th Apr 2018
 Thanks, fixbutte. The coupling with "Oh Well" should then be dated to July. I've submitted a correction and added the Billboard review to that entry.
 

 
fixbutte
29th Mar 2018
 It was a commercial, see uploaded Mercury ad from September 1950, and questions are which version came first. The Mercury Labels: The 1945-1956 Era book by Michel Ruppli says "Oh Well" was on the first pressing of Mercury 8184, and it was actually reviewed in Billboard one week before the "Hadacol Bounce" ad was printed.

This order is confirmed here:
MERCURY
04 50....8175-X45....ROY BYRD & His Blues Jumpers..Bald Head (7805-1)/Hey Now Baby (7806-1)
07 50....8184-X45....ROY BYRD and His Blues Jumpers..Oh Well (7807)/Her Mind Is Gone (7804)
08 50....8184-X45....ROY BYRD and His Blues Jumpers..Hadacol Bounce (7820)/Her Mind Is Gone (7804)
 

 
slholzer
7th Oct 2015
 Mercury's reluctance in this case seems disingenuous. There must be at least a half a dozen blues and country releases on Mercury that were as much a commercial for Hadacol as this one was. Some of them were exactly this song done by other artists. More likely, Mercury just got tired of not getting paid for it, or the pop music world's love affair with Hadacol had run its course and the powers-that-be at Mercury thought it was time to switch horses, even in the middle of the stream. A few years later, with the payola scandals and Congressional investigations going on, such reluctance would have been readily understandable.
 

 
laviolet
25th Sep 2015
 Fess recorded "Her Mind Is Gone" several times over the years; this is the Mercury version.

 

 
Tailspin
6th Apr 2015
 
Hadacol Bounce
 

 
laviolet
26th Nov 2014
 Roy Byrd is better known as Professor Longhair. Mercury 8184 was withdrawn and reissued with "Oh Well" replacing "Hadacol Bounce," which to Mercury sounded too much like a commercial for the popular patent medicine.
 


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