Come On in Baby; Biscuit Roller: Museum Object and Cultural History
Come On in Baby; Biscuit Roller: recording date: 1932. recording artist: Darnell Howard's Night Hawks. recording artist: Memphis Night Hawks.
The object in the museum catalogue
Darnell Howard's Night Hawks. side 1: Come On in Baby; side 2: Biscuit Roller (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 74). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1932 and released on Vocalion 1744 credited as Memphis Night Hawks.
Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] was a bootleg record label, founded around 1946-1947. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings of the 1920s. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings. These recordings first appeared in the record collector’s magazine The Record Changer publicizing the re-issue of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band recordings from 1923.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1932
- recording artist: Darnell Howard's Night Hawks
- recording artist: Memphis Night Hawks
- manufacturer: Hot Jazz Club of America
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: New York, Brooklyn
- ID Number: 1988.0698.1377
- catalog number: 1988.0698.1377
- accession number: 1988.0698
- collector/donor number: H216
- maker number: HC 74
- Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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