TEST press GEORGIA TOM & SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Mississippi Bottom Blues 1930 HEAR
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10" 78 RPM 1930 BLUES TEST PRESSING GEORGIA TOM & SCRAPPER BLACKWELL Mississippi Bottom Blues The label on this side of the Test 78 is blank This side was released in 1930 on Yazoo L-1041
right below is a link to my youtube recording of this test pressing
GEORGIA TOM w/ Scrapper Blackwell on guitar singing Mississippi ...
Georgia Tom aka Thomas Andrew Dorsey who became known as "the father of black gospel music" This however is still his Blues period before his "conversion". See wikipedia article at bottom. THE OTHER SIDE IS: ALBERTA JONES singing SHAKE A LITTLE BIT (AND DRAG IT) with GEORGIA TOM ON PIANO? On the 78 release of Mississippi bottom Blues (YAZOO L-1041) This side is Come on Mama Do That Dance with Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas. I'm not sure yet of the Alberta Jones 78 this was on & if Mississippi Bottom was the reverse. right below is a link to my youtube recording of it Shake a Little Bit (& drag it)
condition VG (but listen yourself and decide)
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INFO BELOW FROM WIKIPEDIA
Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys." Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.
Dorsey's father was a minister and his mother a piano teacher. He learned to play blues piano as a young man. After
studying music formally in Chicago, he became an agent for Paramount Records. He put together a band for Ma Rainey
called the "Wild Cats Jazz Band" in 1924.
He started out playing at rent parties with the names Barrelhouse Tom and Texas Tommy, but he was most famous as
Georgia Tom. As Georgia Tom, he teamed up with Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) with whom he recorded the raunchy
1928 hit record "Tight Like That", a sensation, eventually selling seven million copies.[3] In all, he is credited with more
than 400 blues and jazz songs.
Dorsey began recording gospel music alongside blues in the mid-1920s. This led to his performing at the National Baptist
Convention in 1930, and becoming the bandleader of two churches in the early 1930s.[4]
His first wife, Nettie, who had been Rainey's wardrobe mistress, died in childbirth in 1932. Two days later the child, a son,
also died. In his grief, he wrote his most famous song, one of the most famous of all gospel songs, "Precious Lord, Take My
Hand".[5]
Unhappy with the treatment received at the hands of established publishers, Dorsey opened the first black gospel music
publishing company, Dorsey House of Music. He also founded his own gospel choir and was a founder and first president
of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses.
His influence was not limited to African American music, as white musicians also followed his lead. "Precious Lord" has
been recorded by Albertina Walker, Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Clara Ward, Dorothy Norwood,
Jim Reeves, Roy Rogers, and Tennessee Ernie Ford, among hundreds of others. It was a favorite gospel song of the
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and was sung at the rally the night before his assassination, and, per his request, at his funeral
by Mahalia Jackson. It was also a favorite of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who requested it to be sung at his funeral.
Dorsey was also a great influence on other Chicago-based gospel artists such as Albertina Walker and The Caravans
and Little Joey McClork.
Dorsey wrote "Peace in the Valley" for Mahalia Jackson in 1937, which also became a gospel standard. He was the first
African American elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and also the first in the Gospel Music Association's
Living Hall of Fame. In 2007, he was inducted as a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond,
Indiana. His papers are preserved at Fisk University, along with those of W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and the
Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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Of course I combined auctions for cheapest shipping.
NM: Near Mint. Record and cover appear virtually unmarked. Cover still in shrink.
VG++: A hair under NM may have only a couple of very insignificant surface only lines..
VG+: Used but not abused . Will likely have some relatively slight audible imperfections.
VG: Likely will have visual imperfections. There will be some audible imperfections.
VG-: Usually the lowest rating I will list an LP at. Same as VG but defects are more pronounced.
G+: Background sound is so loud that listening might be a chore.
