AFC 1933/001 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, ARCHIVE ADMINISTRATION -- NOTEBOOK 274 The Spiral Stenographer's Note Book A Superior Notebook with Leaves That Turn Fast and Lie Flat No. HG-60 Gripper edge Holds Book Upright Without Slipping Book No. ________ From _________ To ___________ Spiral Binding Patents 1518932 - 1942026 - 1985776. Other Patents Pending Gripper Edge Patent Nos 2054778-2034059 W. P. A. Writers' Project Material. . . . 1 Yiddish Work Songs - swell stuff. Sam Schwartz - Call Monday [10] 9.30, 2 Pat Quinlan. Old Irishman on the project. Brouge. Textile Workers - a good source for Irish songs. 3 Stephen Klinger -sells Yugoslav phonograph records in N.Y. 10th Ave. & [76th?] St. 4 Gusla player - Mr. Katzun Sekulich diple. 5 Miss M. [Sh] Schibaby, for Lang. cluyo. service, 222 4th Ave. NYC) 6 Victor Campbell, 25 South St. N.Y.C. Forty Fathoms Ballad of Johnny [Have?] - get copy for W 's song book. Mrs. Curran, .Lilts. Has studied Irish tunes & dances exhaustively. Knows an old Irish piper. Music in Libr. of Cong. Allied Recording Co. 126W46th Bv.94435- Audio Devices Inc! 1600 Bdway - Ci 54996 Federal Recorder 50 W . 57th Ci-58498 Miles Reproducer 812 Bway Mr 59466 [M???] Record Corp 58W.25th Ch-3-2222 Presto] R C 139 W 18th Ch-2-6425 Proctor B.A - 12 W . 60th Ci-7-3774 [Rangentone?]-201 Verona Ave, [Newark?] N. J.-Hum 20123 Sight & Sound Laboratores 15 W 44th movie distrib. Mu-25922 Sound Apparatus Co. 150 W. 46th Br 9-8776 Speakophone Recording & Equip 23 very cheesy Co-5-1350 Universal Microphone Co. 259 W. 14th Ch-2-7332 Vibro Master Inc. 2744 Bway-Ac-25130 RCA Mfg. Co. Inc. 15. E. 24th Bo-46200 Universal Recording Co. RKO Bldg. Ci54895 Reeves Sound Studios 1600 Bdwy Ci-66686 World Broadcasting - 744 5th Ave. Wi 22100 Decca Records 50 W. 57th Co-55662 Hamut Records 1107 Bway Ch-27359 Musicraft Records 10 W. 47th Br 9-6564 16mm film Sound Recording Equipment 16mm - 117 E 24th St. 9-6717 X Crystaltone Sound Devices Co. 358 W 44th 16 mm. 35 mm. sound Ci-67380 Langevin. C. C. (W. Elect) 420 Lexington Mo48482 RCA Sound Equipment--570 Lexington Ave Vo-5-1700 Vocagraph 827 Bdway Al - 4-4321 Bell & Howell Cameras 30 Rockefeller Plaza Ci-- 5-5800 16mm. Recording - $2000 -- $3000 for Berndt Mauer 16mm. Sound recording Wahl, Rochester -outfit H. H. De Vrie - Fischer 52 Vanderbilt Straus at Allied offers [m] to rent a 16" recorder for 2 days -- $25; $50/wk; $125/mo., A revamped Presto 12" @ $35/mo Has a slightly used Allied he'll sell for $375-- His new price for same machine $475 12" discs -- 67¢/each with com. reduction 1) A, 33, B, 78 11a33, 6@78 2) 33 RPM 3) 33 RPM (defective) 4) 33 RPM 5) A, 33 ". B, 78 RPM 6) 33 RPM Reeves. 7) 78 RPM Swell young guy. Complete 8) 33 RPM studios - disc, film. Willing 9) 78 RPM to lend me a Fairchild recorder. 10) 33, 78 500 Gamut recordings - 11) 78, B blanks will give them to us if they have the money. Swears his discs will not deteriorate with time. Fairchild only good portable. Studio - 1/2 day $80. Mr. Miller, Edison Library- flute- [nge?], zither - [rhnun?] drum- [darbeka?] violin - tuned 1/4 tones flute- [ovd?]. A. Alan, 81 Washington St.. Records of Syrian, Turkish, Egyptian, etc., Brauswick 63024- Europ. [I?q]. Recent 63001- Less " " D. Odeon - RA 224521-11 Pilgrmage to Mecca. Baidaphon- B-084398 -- Marian [U??lliean], WP4 plays stringed instruments -- Look at the 89 towns. -- Mr. Sudsworth Frazier, [co?]. sing. groups 250 Houston St.. -- Friday & perhaps Wednesday - Rhythm Band Wazu Rhythm Kids. -- One String [Ha?dy] - deshpan cello -- Honey Boy Thompson -- Cedric [Dobb] Daub - East Side Festival Director -- Fred Vau [Epps] Eps 130 Farley Ave.. [Fa??oood], N.J. Fanwood 2-7535 [Nals??] 5 str. banjoes Has large collection of Edison records -- When you go a counting I'm a rambler of a gambler of a long ways from home, If the people don't like me, they can sure leave me alone. Oh! it's dark and a raining as the moon gives no light, My pony won't travel on dark road at night. ate ,. _____ Solo. I ain't gonna work on the v . v , I " " lie in jail I'm going down to [?] Cheyenne town [??] Live with my blue gal. _____ Rye Whiskey ____ The Wild Rippling Water _____ I'm bound to [tutlous?] the song hours [????] until I am too old, Chisholm Trail _____ | Joe Clark, Liza Jane The Rowing Gambler ___ | Sweet Thing Goodbye old Paint __ | Dat'n All Right Honey Doney Gal | Praise A [????/] Tonight Whoopie ti yi yo 1 Old Woman and the little Pig - Hand puppet 2 Rattlesnake. - " " 3 The Grey Goose - Puppet theatre 4 No, Sir, No - hand puppets 5 The Briery Bush - Puppet theatre 6 Stewball - " " 7 Frog Went A-Courting - " " 8 [Pupp] Sweet Betsy - " " (?) 9 Jolly Too Dum - Hand Puppet 10 Devilish Mary - " " 11 Uncle Remus stories - Puppet theatre 12 Get Up and Bar the Door - " " 13 Soldier, Soldier Marry me - Hand Puppet 14 Abdul - - " " 15 Edward or Jimmy Randall perhaps - THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MUSIC DIVISION TELEPHONE SERVICE RECORD Date Hour Received by Speaking From S. O. B. H. O. B. N. H. O. B. Subject: Capitol Treatment: 1. Answered by 2. Referred to 3. Cleared U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16---262 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MUSIC DIVISION TELEPHONE SERVICE RECORD Date___________________________ Hour_________ Received by____________________ _________________________Speaking From _______S.O.B _______H.O.B _______N.H.O.B Subject: Capitol Treatment: 1. Answered by______________________________________ 2. Referred to________________________________________ 3. Cleared____________________________________________ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16---262 Crosby Brown Collection ([U???]. [?].) Met. Museum of Art. -- Musical Instruments of S.A. Indians K. G. [O] [Izigok] Izizkowitz -- Old English Instruments A Textbook of Europ. Music. Inst. F. W. Galpin -- Musical Inst. - Carl Eugel -- The Story of Musical Instruments H. W. Schwartz. (Pop) My country 'tis of thee Sweet land of dad and me To thee we sing S E E ------------------------------------ My gracious country - [?] My private property [E?] To thee I see Long may reign prevail Long may I sell thy kale Where workers rot in jail Great God I'm king. Earnest Thompson, Doc Walsh - good mt. on old Columbia. Al Craven - Vernon Dalhart; other monicker Supper is the guy to see at Port Washington 0 Inla Williams is the person to ask about Paramount Co. . Norfolk Jubilee Greatest, Corn Licken still in Ga. - swell Callaway, started Geunett Hill Billy Catalogue - ask Capp for his address Frank Walker, old time Hill Billy executive for Columbia, now with Victor Ask him who made first OK hill billy - Fiddling John Carson. Ask [Black Pal] Inla Williams about Black Swan, Black Patti, etc.. 1) I must learn about serial numbers from someone. 2) I must make an alphabetical list of performers with a) Geographical data. b) Age & date of first & last recordings. c) Companies for which they recorded d) Instrument(s) played e) Type of material used f) Biog. information g) Relation with other performers. h) Statistical geographical estimate of popularity On the cards for separate titles: Title of Song Names of performers with insts. played Where recorded & date First line & refrain. Melodic & texual connections. Singing style. When released, [and] when discontinued, no sold This could be set up as a project in [each?] factory with the workers interested only in the catalogue & file material. One or two workers in each place to exempt the material and arrange it for auditioning. One worker to audition each record in forms of certain set criteria. A number of sample records should be traced through their entire history. The hits of the separate years should be studied in relation to their historical-cultural setting, their geographical + social proveniences, their context in relation to the content of other songs in the same style + other surrounding style, their style + performances [the techn] As much as possible should be found out about the adver- tizing techniques used in issuing them, the [factors which to] inner organizational considerations which went into their selection + arrangement. Last question - what did they pay a) the composer b) the performers c) the producing company. First Race Record Okeh Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith - 1919 Perry Bradford They didn't believe Negroes had anything But [[??]] monologues were experiments. Williams Black Patti - 1923-24 in conjunction Sec. of Paramount Co. got some at personnel went to [Gennett?] + interested him in the record business, [W??]., Fred Gennett, [Barrett?] organized R. P. [Lastid?] less than 6 mos. Victor, Col., [O?], Paramount, Brunswick had 10,000 agencies & closed down on R. P. The same thing later happened to Pace and his Paramount company. [W??] (who had Bl. Swan) took Pace to Port Washington in '23 to the New York [Record,?] Co., which [pressed?] records for anybody. Pace was having his records pressed there. Black Swan was org. by Pace 1919 - 20. - 21. Pace is now president of Victory Life Ins.. Hardy's partner, Pace & Hardy. (Pace was cashier in a bank in Memphis) Pace a genius. Then Col., Victor, Brunswick went into the business & made a vace catalogue. They came out with their vace catalogues in '20, '21. Pace was squeezed for 2 or 3 years. Sell, stocks to his people, agusta - wife & mother went around selling stocks for him. The artists began to jump. E Waters began with him. E. Waters made his name with Down Home Blues & made her more pop than all the radio [???.] today. In those days an impromptu group was called "jazz _____" etc.. J.R. made his first record for Williams in 1920. Jumped to all the companies. Wims grad from Brown, went to Black Swam & got a job as distributor. Pullman porters were getting 1, 1 1/2, 2 dollars for records in the South, running out of the South. Full page adv. in Negro paper, like me at for Sunday. The old blues singers were called coon shouters. M. Rainey the mother of the blues — Mrs. Billie Kersan. Pine Top gave B W. Used theme as a base. Wms gave his wife the 200 to bury him with. Lewis was recording [amorous] in 24-27. Blind Lemon was the first guitar & singer who was [wer] on the record. The co. was afraid of it, won't pay his his room expenses. Wms & a friend paid same. The Longest Lonesome Blues— longest selling of (his) this type ever made. Blind Lemon came from Mexico originally. When the depression came, Paramount junked a million $ worth of works — Wms. has 4000 copyrights in his name, in names of N. Y. Recording Co., Chicago Music Pub Co. & name of recording artists. Walter Jacobs- from Mississippi — wrote Things About Coming My Way — listed under State Street Pub. Co . copyright ................................... Black Swan — 1919 - 20 Paramount — 1921 - 22 Col, Victor, [Okele], [Brumswicks] held out until nearly 1950. Bluebird label — Pathé — race record boom 20 - 25 — Apex — " " " " " [Memnett] — royalty basics solely — Ajax — race record " " New [field] — Race & hill billy. Edison — no race recording Paramount was the gen. pressing agent for a lot of the little ones. Vocalion —1920, a part of [Heohia?] Co .. Alabama B. first recorded for P. in 1925 by Charlie Jacobson. [Also] wrote shake that thing. [Prists] made 600 - recording fee at that time. 5 times what it is now. 1930 - [Jewel], Dan & Cameo dooppep [Pvion to 9 year] Jewel a year or two later. Jewel, [to] Dowins, Cameo, Project, Romeo, Oriole + Banner - differed as to titles [at] before [Mine,] 1930. After that Cam. Prof. Rom, Oriole + Banner coupled. Melotone came in 1933 and after that these [all the labels were the same] content records were the same. [Romeo, Oriole + Banner] [eo ?] - 14061-D 12708 12819 12826 12806 12315 12407 12-443,[*446,451*]475 12-663 12-832 x 12-696 12-832 12-725 12-698 12-285 12-665 12-895 12-814 3115, 3126 3127, 3135 25 9 225 12810- 12467 12747 12637 12392 -609 827 310 ,656,699 697 722 407 629 437 679 740 693 700,701 719 389 713 724 [827] 565 Richard Jones - Woodside Hotel Perry Bradford - 1587 Broadway 438 5 2190 440/x = 6/5 6x=2200 x=366.66 $150 - March 1st to March 10 $20 for rent. $18 for Martha $15 to Philly $15 to Washington [$30] suit. $50 tuition $20 food $9 payment on [wafeh ?] $15 storage $182. [60.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00] $162.0000000000000.....0 Mon 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 Mon 6 7 8 9 10 $40 food+rent $3 $1.50 3.50 $5.00 2.00 $7.00 Bryan Mason COPYRIGHTED CHART--FROM GREGG SHORTHAND MANUAL CHART OF BRIEF FORMS COPYRIGHTED CHART--FROM GREGG SHORTHAND MANUAL Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.