Black Cat Bones; Kansas City Shuffle: Museum Object and Cultural History
Black Cat Bones; Kansas City Shuffle: recording date: 1927. recording artist: Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band. manufacturer: Perfect.
The object in the museum catalogue
Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band. side 1: Kansas City Shuffle; side 2: Black Cat Bones (Perfect 139). 78 rpm. This coupling was initially released on Pathé 7539.
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: 1927
- recording artist: Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band
- manufacturer: Perfect
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1996.0320.15516
- collector/donor number: 6049
- maker number: 139
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.15516
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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