Bees Knees; Dumbell: Museum Object and Cultural History
Bees Knees; Dumbell: recording date: 1922. recording artist: Golden Gate Orchestra. recording artist: Don Parker's Western Melody Boys.
The object in the museum catalogue
side 1: Golden Gate Orchestra. Bees Knees; side 2: Don Parker's Western Melody Boys. Dumbell (Perfect 14079). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1922 and released on Pathé 020886.
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1922
- recording artist: Golden Gate Orchestra
- recording artist: Don Parker's Western Melody Boys
- manufacturer: Perfect
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in; x 30.48 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1988.0824.14
- accession number: 1988.0824
- maker number: 14079
- catalog number: 1988.0824.14
- Credit Line: Gift of Lillian S. Kaplan
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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