78 RPM - Clyde McCoy - Tear It Down / Sugar Blues - Decca - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Clyde McCoy
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	381
Date:	Mar 1935
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	12 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Clyde McCoy	Tear It Down	Clyde McCoy	Rate
B	Clyde McCoy	Sugar Blues	Clarence Williams, Lucy Fletcher	Rate

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Certain pressings were used as part of a six record album No 160 in 1940 and were marked so

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benchwarrant17 27th Jun 2021		Great post, I knew of this record, but I long for background. Here is some more. Billboard July 26, 1941 rates S.B. #3 Hillbilly tune for the month of July 1941. Where they decided to put it in Hillbilly category I have no idea ( Hillbilly became "Country" over the years.) Why it is in a semi-worthless 1941 list I have no idea yet. I have collected enough information to produce good CW year-end charts for 1942-1945. Billboard crappy Hillbilly charts began January 8, 1944. There are no charts for 1942 and 1943, and 1944-1945 are extremely poor; half of the songs ranked are not Country or Hillbilly, they are like Sugar Blues, belong in the Race/Harlem or Polka divisions. I completely reverse engineered their chart and information, and will make new charts after I finish the earlier ones. I know I would have loved some decent charts when I was collecting, and it is good to have something to argue over, you learn a lot that way.



slholzer 5th Feb 2017		On the original so-called "Sunburst" Decca label and the non-album standard blue label that followed it, "Tear It Down" was the A side and "Sugar Blues" was the B side. When the disc became part of an album, the side designations were reversed and remained that way through at least one minor design change, as illustrated here. For what it is worth, there are also two versions of the "Sunburst" label, the difference being that one has the mx number at the 9 o'clock position, while the other has no matrix number anywhere on the label. This was a very hot record for Clyde McCoy. I'm surprised that no one has submitted a "Sunburst" label yet. They must survive in large numbers. I remember my father complaining that "Tear It Down" was undanceably fast. Clyde McCoy, if you've not encountered him, was famous as a "wah wah" trumpeter and made a career out of playing "Sugar Blues", which remains a classic piece of that style. In later years, McCoy marketed himself to trad jazz audiences, but opinions vary as to whether he was really a jazz player or just a novelty act. If you listen to any of the various recordings of "Sugar Blues" he made back to back, you will probably be hard-pressed to find any difference in them.



Bob1951 25th Jan 2017		Label variant images added.



GumboStu 11th Apr 2016		Added circular label pics :-)



xiphophilos 13th Dec 2015		A Side: B Side:

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