78 RPM - Vess Ossman - Tell Me Pretty Maiden / The Man With The Banjo - RCA Victor - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Vess Ossman
Label:	RCA Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	D6-CB-6167 / E3-VB-2915
Date:	Mar 1954
Format:	Promo only
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Vess Ossman	Tell Me Pretty Maiden	Hall, Stuart	Rate
B	The Ames Brothers	The Man With The Banjo	Robert Mellin, Fritz S. Reichel	Rate

Notes

Both Sides: National Banjo Week - March 30th to April 6th
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A Side:
From Floradora
Recorded Jan. 21, 1901
The first RCA Victor record ever released
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B Side:
with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus
Commemorating the Invention of the Banjo - The first native American musical instrument

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JLC135 14th Jul 2020		Label changed to RCA Victor.



RecordDragon 20th Mar 2019		Both sides also released on 45 RPM singles Ames Brothers Vess Ossman



BigBadBluesMan 2nd Jun 2015



slholzer 21st Dec 2014		This is a very interesting record, which you have put into wonderful historical perspective. Knowing its history as you do, it makes me wonder why you hesitated to assign it its proper place as an RCA Victor product. There is nothing on the disc to suggest a connection to the corporate entity that we refer to as HMV that does not equally point to RCA. MOreover, all of the history behind the disc is RCA Victor's, not HMV's, and they trumpet it as the first RCA Victor, even if that notion is debatable. If you look at the list of trademarked phrases around the edge, you'll see that the very first is RCA Victor. I don't know if HMV would go so far as to claim that one for itself. RCA, on the other hand, does claim the words "His Master's Voice". There is no British monopoly there. I think we are stretching the concept of HMV a bit far in positing such a thing as HMV USA, unless we call it by its name: RCA Victor.



Jock_Girl ● 11th Oct 2014		This page Victor Lists it as Victor A-624, but as the number is 624, it seems strange to be a 'first' This ad Victor Records Calls it the earliest master. Note that here you will see it as Monarch 3049 3049



scrough 11th Oct 2014		As this is a 1901 USA recording, it would probably have been on Zon-O-Phone. More info explaining why here.



Jock_Girl ● 10th Oct 2014		The label text "The first RCA Victor record ever released" is not exactly correct as: a) RCA Victor did not exist in 1901. This was originally on Monarch 3049, Monarch being a precursor to Victor b) There are earlier recordings by Ossman for Victor assocaited labels This is vinyl record As to the label name, RCA Victor is not directly named on the label, so I have gone with HMV