78 RPM - Bert Williams - Purpostus / Never Mo' - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bert Williams
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	A1853
Date:	Nov 1915
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own
Price Guide:	$20
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PRICE GUIDE

$20

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bert Williams	Purpostus	Bert Wiliams, Henry D. King	Rate
B	Bert Williams	Never Mo'	Williams, Rogers	Rate

Notes

Song Monolog
Orchestra Accompaniment

A mx: 46004 (label & runout); B mx: 46005 (label & runout).
Recorded New York, NY, September 9, 1915.

Images

Number: 1285728

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Number: 1285729

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Description: Columbia A1853 B side label

Number: 413210

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Description: Columbia A1853 A side label (repress)

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Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 15th Mar 2017		Hi xiphophilos, this one was already on the database (with a blue "gold band" label version issued later, between 1917 and 1923). You may merge the two entries. I had indeed overlooked that. Have now switched the track order on the original entry and merged both entries. Xip.



xiphophilos 15th Mar 2017		A side:



xiphophilos 15th Mar 2017		B side:



mickey rat 14th Jan 2013		Bert Williams was an immensely popular vaudeville entertainer in his day and one of the first negro artists (he was West Indian) to appeal to a mainly white audience. Bizarrely he appeared on stage for some years in "black face" singing "coon" songs, a-la Al Jolson (who he probably influenced), so early audiences probably thought he was a white man under the burnt cork. He made his first records as early as 1901, appeared on Broadway and at the Shaftsbury Theatre in London for an extended season in 1903.