Doin' the Best I Can; The Time Will Come: Museum Object and Cultural History
Doin' the Best I Can; The Time Will Come: recording date: 1925. recording artist: Massey, Guy. manufacturer: Perfect.
The object in the museum catalogue
Guy Massey. side 1: Doin' the Best I Can; side 2: The Time Will Come (Perfect 12183),br>78 rpm. This coupling was initially released on Pathé 032104.
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: 1925
- recording artist: Massey, Guy
- 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: 1996.0320.29053
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.29053
- collector/donor number: 10326
- maker number: 12183
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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