78 RPM - Fat Man Robinson Quintet - Don't Drink / Lavender Coffin - Motif - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Fat Man Robinson Quintet
Label:	Motif
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	M 2001A / M 2001
Date:	May 1949
Format:	10"
Genre:	Vocal, Blues, Rhythm & Blues
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	$28
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$28

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Fat Man Robinson Quintet	Don't Drink	Robinson	Rate
B	Fat Man Robinson Quintet	Lavender Coffin	Shirley Albert	Rate

Notes

Jump Blues (A), Rhythm and Blues (B)

Paul Robinson (vocals and alto sax); with unknown others; group vocals (on A and B); comments (on B)

Labels/runoffs: M 2001A, M 2001
Recorded Boston, MA. 1949

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cyeaman SUBS 18th Jan 2025		"Lavender Coffin" appears to have been the hit side of this disc. Billboard shows it was tied for the ninth most played jukebox race record the week of May 21, 1949. This morbid little novelty was subsequently recorded by other artists including Lionel Hampton, Joe Thomas and Tex Beneke. This was Motif Record's first release, and the company promised jukebox operators that "money will drip like honey". Like so many other small labels, Motif appears to have folded little more than a year later and was last listed in Billboard in July 1950.

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