HOT RECORD SOCIETY 19 * 78RPM COMPLETE SERIES 1937/9

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HOT RECORD SOCIETY : 19 78RPM COMPLETE SERIES 1937/9

• Up for sale is a complete run of the initial records issued on the Hot Record Society label from New York that were sold by subscription bi-monthly and then monthly between May 1937 and April 1939 and featured seminal jazz recordings from the previous decade. There are 19 records in all and include a 'dividend' record. They are in fantastic condition (average E) and the only damage that I noticed was that a few had some lamination issues. In addition, there are small reference stickers on one side of the label and a number written neatly on the first 8 records. Shipping will be by media mail and I estimate the cost at $15.00 within the US depending on location. I can ship abroad but bear in mind that to send these 78’s will be expensive - I estimate the cost to be about $70. These prices superceed others quoted in ebay's automatic listing boxes. I hope you enjoy this list

• Details are as follows: :

1. May 1937 – Chicago Loopers (w/ Bix and Tram) ‘Three Blind Mice Master No 1 & 2’
2. July 1937 – Bessie Smith ‘One And Two Blues’ / Louis Armstrong Hot Five ‘Cornet Chop Suey’
3. Sept 1937 – The Cellar Boys (Frank Teschmaker) ‘Wailing Blues’ / Wingy Mannone Club Royale Orch ‘Trying To Stop My Crying’
4. Nov 1937 - Connie’s Inn Orch (Fletcher Henderson) ‘Sugar Foot Stomp’ / King Oliver Jazz Band ‘Dipper-Mouth Blues’
5. Dividend Record 37/8 – Maggie Jones w/ Louis and Fletcher Henderson ‘Good Time Flat Blues’ / Bertha Chippie Hill w/ Louis & Richard M Jones ‘Pratt City Blues’
6. January 1938 – Jack Teagarden Orch ‘Loveless Love Master No 1/2
7. March 1938 – Clarence Williams Blue Five ‘Coal Cart Blues’ / Original NORK ‘I Never Knew What A Gal Could Do’
8. May 1938 – Benny Goodman’s Boys ‘Wolverine Blues’ / Louisiana Rhythm Kings ‘Da Da Strain’
9. June 1938 Montana Taylor ‘Detroit Rocks’ / Romeo Nelson ‘Head Rag Hop’
10. July 1938 Wolverine Orch w/ Bix ‘Riverboat Shuffle / Lazy Daddy’
11. August 1938 – Louis Armstrong Hot Five ‘You’re Next’ / Oriental Strut’
12. Sept 1938 – Earl Hines ‘Just Too Soon / Chicago High Life’
13. Oct 1938 – King Oliver Jazz Band ‘Tears / High Society Rag’
14. Nov 1938 – Wingy Manone Orch ‘Isn’t There A Little Love / Jimmy Noone’s Apex Club Orch ‘King Joe’
15. Dec 1938 – J C Higginbotham Six Hicks ‘Higginbotham Blues’ / Give Me Your Telephone Number’
16. Miff Mole Orchestra ‘Windy City Stomp’ /Louisiana Rhythm Kings ‘Ballin The Jack’
17. The Chocolate Dandies ‘Once Upon A Time’ / Krazy Kapers’
18. Billy Banks’ Rhythmakers ‘Take It Slow And Easy’ / Pee-Wee Russell Rhythmakers ‘Baby Won’t You Please Come Home’
19. Louis Armstrong w/ Earl Hines ‘Weather Bird’ / Louis w/ Buck Washington ‘Dear Old Southland’

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.................................................................................................Here follows an article in 'Time' magazine from 1937. "Jazz, blowsiest of the arts, has been disgracefully lax about keeping her barrelhouse in order. The master recordings of hundreds of notable numbers, played by inspired but informal groups of musicians in obscure studios, have been lost or destroyed. Copies of records made in Swing's golden age, the 19203, by bands like the Wolverines, Friars Society Orchestra and New Orleans Rhythm Kings, are therefore as rare as Gutenbergs and, to lovers of America's native music, as valuable. Last winter Victor repressed a series of early jazz masterpieces, sold them as the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album. The late great Trumpet Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody through all twelve sides of the set. Two non-commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested in administrative detail. Wide open, therefore, was the place which a brand new Hot Record Society undertook last week to fill. The Hot Record Society, with an office in Room 1306 at No. 303 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, intends to issue limited editions of six famed and unavailable old recordings each year. Members are charged $6 annually, which includes the cost of the records. If the venture prospers, record dividends will be declared. Headed by Artist Stephen W. Smith and advised by a board of leading spirits from the United Hot Clubs of America, the Society seemed assured of a welcome from the nation's half-million serious jazz fanciers. "We will choose," haughtily announces the Society's first bulletin, "to reprint discs that are distinguished both by greatness of performance and by rarity, leaving the corn to the hillbillies and the more accessible hot records to the assiduousness of individual collectors." The Society's first reissue, out this week, is Three Blind Mice played by the Chicago Loopers, a disc full of the sad harmonics and eccentric lyrical twists characteristic of the great Chicago-style. Such masters as Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer (saxophone), Carl Kress (guitar), and Don Murray (clarinet) formed the band. On the two sides of the record, the masters take turns showing what they can do with variations on the common mouse theme.

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