Can't We Be Friends; I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody: Museum Object and Cultural History
Can't We Be Friends; I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody: recording date: 1947. associated institution: All Star Stompers. manufacturer: Circle.
The object in the museum catalogue
The All Star Stompers. side 1: Can't We Be Frieinds; side 2: I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody (Circle J-1042), from the album, This Is Jazz, Volume 3 (Circle S-15). 78 rpm.
Album design and typography was by Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst, 1920-1984), a German-born American painter.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1947
- associated institution: All Star Stompers
- manufacturer: Circle
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- ID Number: 1978.0670.471
- maker number: S-15
- maker number: J-1042
- accession number: 1978.0670
- catalog number: 1978.0670.471
- Credit Line: Gift of Lucy C. Shain in memory of James Lewis Shain
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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