Barney Google; I Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself): Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

side 1: Billy Jones and Ernest Hare. Barney Google; side 2: Billy Clarke. I Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself) (Silvertone 2293). 78 rpm. This pairing was originally released on Federal 5293.

Silvertone Records was a record label sold by the Sears-Roebuck Company in their stores and through mail-order. The discs were manufactured mainly by Columbia Records, with some made by Paramount Records and Gennett Records, from 1916-1928 and 1940-1941.

William Messer founded the Indestructible Record Company in Albany, New York, 1906. The company produced celluloid cylinder records until 1922. Columbia Records distributed the Indestructible Record Company’s cylinders from 1908 to 1912. Indestructible continued to sell cylinders independently and through Sears-Roebuck Company and Montgomery Wars stores. The company was re-organized as the Federal Record Corporation in 1917 and started making disc records under the Federal label. Federal stopped production in 1925.

Materials, dates and provenance

• release date: 1923
• recording artist: Hare, Ernest
• recording artist: Jones, Billy
• manufacturer: Silvertone
• Object Name: sound recording
• Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
• place made: United States
• ID Number: 2000.3053.1726
• catalog number: 2000.3053.1726
• nonaccession number: 2000.3053
• label number: 2293
• Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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