Chain Gang Song; Mother and Home

Description:

Bob Massey. side 1: Chain Gang Song; side 2: Mother and Home (Perfect 12190)
78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1925 and released on Pathé 032111.

Bob Massey is a pseudonym on Perfect for Vernon Dalhart.

Perfect Records was an American budget record label founded in by Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation, in 1922. Perfect and Pathé became part of the original merger of record labels that formed the American Record Corporation, in 1929. Perfect was discontinued in 1938.

Recording Date: 1925

Recording Artist: Dalhart, VernonManufacturer: Perfect

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: New York, Brooklyn

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Related Publication: Russell, Tony. Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1996.0320.20629Accession Number: 1996.0320Label Number: 12190Catalog Number: 1996.0320.20629

Object Name: sound recording

Physical Description: shellac (overall material)Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-4555-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1328169

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