Crazy Blues / It's Right Here for You: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A 78 rpm record of Crazy Blues / It's Right Here for You performed by Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds

The adhesive label on the record is maroon with gold lettering. The Okeh Records logo is at the top of the labels on both sides. Side 1 reads [CRAZY BLUES / (Perry Bradford) / MAMIE SMITH AND HER JAZZ HOUNDS] in the center and [4169-A] on the left. Side 2 reads [IT'S RIGHT HERE FOR YOU / (If You Don't Get It - 'Tain't No Fault Of Mine) / (Marion Dickerson - Alex. Belled) / MAMIE SMITH AND HER JAZZ HOUNDS] in the center, and [4169-B] on the left. Both sides read [Popular Blue song] on the right and [GENERAL PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION NEW YORK] along the bottom.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1920
• Published by: Okeh Records, American, 1916 - 2000
• Written by: Perry Bradford, American, 1893 - 1970
• Recorded by: Mamie Smith, American, 1883 - 1946
• Recorded by: Coleman Hawkins, American, 1904 - 1969
• Recorded by: Johnny Dunn, American, 1897 - 1937
• Recorded by: Bubber Miley, American, 1903 - 1932
• Recorded by: Buster Bailey, American, 1902 - 1967
• Recorded by: Porter Grainger, American, 1891 - 1955
• Type: 78 rpm records
• Medium: polyvinyl chloride, ink on paper, adhesive
• Dimensions: Diameter (record): 10 × 1/16 in. (25.4 × 0.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (note): 3 × 5 in. (7.6 × 12.7 cm)
• Place printed: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Blues (Music)
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2016.69.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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