78 RPM - Isham Jones Orchestra - Think Of Me / Play The Funny Blues - Brunswick - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Isham Jones Orchestra
Label:	Brunswick
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	2374
Date:	Mar 1923
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Isham Jones Orchestra	Think Of Me	Eldridge	Rate
B	Isham Jones Orchestra	Play The Funny Blues	Panico	Rate

Notes

Fox Trot - For Dancing

Side A = mx. 9174
Side B = mx. 9149
Recorded in November, 1922 in New York, NY.

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Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 26th Jun 2024		Thanks for sharing and adding the image! This is the first one I personally have seen from outside the Midwest, and it also appears on the sample image that Han uploaded: Jackson Furniture Co., 14th & Clay Streets, Oakland, Calif. But as your list shows, Han, these labels exist even in the Southeast, West and on the West Coast. "...merton, Washington", by the way, would be "Bremerton, Washington." The Ziv Furniture Co, West Division Street was in Chicago, IL.



cyeaman SUBS 25th Jun 2024		There is an image of Brunswick 2345, bearing a dealer's stamp from Oakland, CA on the i78 library: https://i78s.org



han enderman 20th Jun 2024		Br 2374 - I have saved images with these dealer stamps when I saw them on (mainly) ebay. They are occasionally found with other labels and then omit the ☆Licensed Brunswick Dealer☆ statement. I have lower/upper texts: OK 40517 - Licensed OKeh dealer / Arcadia Book & Music Store, ..., Arcadia, Florida Co A-5426 - Chicago, Illinois / Sold by Wade-Twichell Co., 311 So. Wabash Ave. PA 020547 - Pianos & Music Rolls / Charles Wolf, 115 N. Cicero Ave., Tel. Austin 2084 In the Brunswick main popular series (2000-) I have them in range 2008-2420, 2766, 5000-5185. In other series on 10037, 13019, 35000, 30022, 40001, 50011. Not in Br 100, 7000 series. Locations are Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles; San Diego; Ft. Worth, Texas; Minot, N. Dakota; Fredonia, Kansas; ...merton, Washington; Utica, NY; St. Joseph, Mo.; Cairo, ...; Waukegan, Ill.; Panora & Perry & Waterloo & Manchester, Iowa; Beloit & Oshkosh, Wisc.; Elgin, Ill.; Oakland; St. Louis, Mo.; Moberly, Missouri; Connersville & Huntington, Ind.; Charlotte & Reed City, Mich.; Melrose Park, Ill. (Br 2766); St. Paul & Hopkins, Minn.; Lafayette, Ind.; Little Falls, Minn.; also Ziv Furniture Co, West Division Street (no city). An ad "Free advertising for wide awake dealers" is in TMW Nov 1922, showing as example Br 2264. I'll upload it here, to illustrate the discussion.



xiphophilos 19th Jun 2024		Ran across an eighth example of these dealer stamps today, on Brunswick 2307 from October 1922. It says, "Sold By Seidel Brothers, 1115 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ☆Licensed Brunswick Dealer☆" This still keeps the evidence for this dealer promotion (March 1922- at least May 1923) limited to only five states, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.



jakal68 15th Jan 2023



cyeaman SUBS 14th Jan 2023		What a sad ending to Mr. Fidler, xiphophilos. The Depression was a tough time to be in the music business. I wonder whether his store would have survived, even had it not burned down in 1927.



xiphophilos 14th Jan 2023		One more example of this Brunswick dealer promotion. This example is the first from Indiana that I have seen, on Brunswick 2421 from 1923: https://www.discogs.com/release/19961797-Marion-Harris-Beside-A-Babbling-Brook-Dearest/image/SW1hZ2U6NjQ3NDY1NzE= Sold By Wayne T. Fidler Piano House, Valparaiso, Indiana. ☆ Licensed Brunswick Dealer ☆". The store was located on the corner of Indiana Avenue and Washington Street. The entire block burned down in 1927, ruining Mr. Fidler. After years of financial struggles, he committed suicide in 1935: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shookphotos/15803890452



cyeaman SUBS 3rd Oct 2022		Thanks for digging into that history, xiphophilos. It's always nice to learn about the people who worked in the trade in its early years, and to be able to connect a little story with a name stamped into the runout area of this record.



xiphophilos 3rd Oct 2022		J. C. (Jackson Cyrus, called Jack) Berryman (1865-1950), by the way, announced his retirement from the trade in the April 13, 1929 Music Trade Review, page 13, saying that he'd run the music shop in Brodhead "for the past 15 years." The opening of the store, though, is only listed in The Talking Machine World, June 15, 1916, page 84. In Music Trades 58, October 25, 1919, page 22, he reports that he has installed new sound-proof listening booths in his store.



xiphophilos 2nd Oct 2022		I haven't seen a lot of these myself. There's a Yiddish release, Brunswick 40006 Simon Paskal "Gott Shenkt Jeden Kind Sein Mamen", from another Chicago dealer, "The National Music Shop, 3405 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Illinois" on eBay. On Instagram, there's a picture of Brunswick 2306 from 1922 stamped "Sold By Taylor Music Co., Moberly, Missouri." On Discogs, there is Brunswick 20006 (12", Dec. 1922), stamped with Sold By A. A. Schulz, Main & Elm Sts., Washington, Missouri." On True Blue Sam's blog, I found a reference to Brunswick 2302, Isham Jones, "Coal Black Mammy" from 1922 with the stamp "Orms Piano House, 112-14 No Main Street, Burlington, Iowa, Licensed Brunswick Dealer." So it looks as if you are right, this promotion seems to have been limited to a few states, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin.



cyeaman SUBS 2nd Oct 2022		According to the Brodhead Historical Society website, that picture is of a postcard dating to 1912, at which time Brodhead had a population of 1,517. xiphophilos, if this was indeed a Brunswick promotion, I wonder if it was exclusive to communities around Chicago? Have you seen any examples from elsewhere in the country?



xiphophilos 2nd Oct 2022		That is a great picture! I wonder what kind of car he's driving. The date the Historical Society lists (1912-12-03) is probably the cancellation date on the back of the postcard.



cyeaman SUBS 2nd Oct 2022		There is a picture of this dealer on the Brodhead historical site: http://www.brodheadhistory.org/exhibition/files/original/c71011d4df085a4a82aaf1a8ea474d88.jpg



xiphophilos 1st Oct 2022		I own one other dealer stamp in the runout like it, on Brunswick 2195 from March 1922. It says, "Sold By M.W. Hallowell, 28 Burlington Avenue, La Grange, Illinois ☆Licensed Brunswick Dealer☆" Olorin67 owns the same record with a dealer stamp saying, "Sold By Woodlawn Phonograph Co. 1314 E. 63rd St., Chicago, Illinois ☆ Licensed Brunswick Dealer ☆". The shop advertised on your copy, "J. C. Berryman, The Music Shop," was from a particularly small town, Brodhead, Wis. In 1920, Brodhead had a population of only 1,600 people. In contrast, La Grange, Ill., had 6,525 inhabitants in 1920. Printing the dealer's address in the runout must have been a special Brunswick dealer promotion from March 1922-March 1923.



Mike Gann 1st Oct 2022		Now that is an interesting dealer sticker