78 RPM - Sanders Terry - Lost John / Fox Hunt - [none] - USA

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Artist:	Sanders Terry
Label:	[none]
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	19
Date:
Format:	Acetate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Sanders Terry	Lost John		Rate
B	Sanders Terry	Fox Hunt		Rate

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Unlabelled 10" acetate of Sanders Terry (i.e., Sonny Terry).
Harmonica Solo

Recorded New York, NY, 1938 by Alan and Bess Lomax.(source)

A) AFS-2493-B
B) AFS-2409-A
Recorded New York, NY, December 24, 1938

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xiphophilos 1st Jun 2022		Just happened to run across the same kind of acetate label on Discogs. This version features a bit of a radio show, the Charlie McCarthy Show with Fats Waller, recorded and broadcast on NBC on December 5, 1943, 10 days before Waller died of pneumonia. Are these private recordings after all?



Spinning Shellac 1959 27th May 2022		These acetates just happen to be in my collection of some 45,000 78s. I had no idea who the artists are before reading the notes on this page. They certainly are interesting, as Sanders Terry is Sonny Terry & McKinley Morganfield is Muddy Waters. There is a real chance the 3 acetates uploaded were originally issued along with the normal shellac 78s at the time or as demo copies before shellac of these when into production. I haven't seen any others acetates by the Library of Congress but just found a few more from Audio Devices, Inc., New York by Kid Ory & New Orleans Bootblacks. These also came in sleeves with regularly issued swing/Jazz 78s from the early 1940's.



xiphophilos 27th May 2022		I still wonder about the nature of your acetate disc. It doesn't look like a private home recording. It it was one, it probably wouldn't have the legal notice "Public performance prohibited without license." The stroboscope ring around it ("Appears stationary under 50 ∼ lamp") seems unusual too. Could this have been produced by the Library of Congress itself? It is still possible to request copies of Library of Congress audio material (https://www.loc.gov/folklife/recordering.html), and someone may have ordered one back in the late 1930s.



Mike Gann 27th May 2022		Added additional information from Fancourt's Blues Records, i.e. matrix nos. and complete recording date.



xiphophilos 27th May 2022		The numbers on the acetates, 19A and 19B, are the numbers assigned to these songs in the Library Of Congress series The Archive Of American Folk Song AAFS 19. Originally, they seem to have been released in 1942 as part of a 5-record shellac album, Album IV "Afro-American Blues And Game Songs" (source, pages 10-11). The original AAFS 19 labels list the A side matrix number as LC 3, the B side matrix number as LC 56. In 1976, they were re-issued on the Library of Congress LP "Afro-American Blues And Game Songs" (AAFS L4).



xiphophilos 27th May 2022		A side:



Mike Gann 26th May 2022		These acetates are Library of Congress recordings. The dates on them are the year they were recorded. It's not easy to say when they were pressed and used for dubbing.

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