Give My Love To Nellie, Jack; The Pine Tree on the Hill: Museum Object and Cultural History
Give My Love To Nellie, Jack; The Pine Tree on the Hill: recording date: 1931. recording artist: Roberts, James. recording artist: Martin, Asa.
The object in the museum catalogue
Asa Martin and James Roberts. side 1: Give My Love To Nellie, Jack; side 2: The Pine Tree on the Hill (Perfect 12744). 78 rpm. This same coupling was released on various American Record Corporation (ARC) labels.
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.
In 1929, the American Record Corporation (ARC) was established with the merger of three companies. These were the Cameo Record Corporation (which owned Cameo, Lincoln and Romeo Records), the Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation (which owned Actuelle, Pathé, and Perfect), and the Plaza Music Company (which owned Banner, Domino, Jewel, Oriole, and Regal).
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1931
- recording artist: Roberts, James
- recording artist: Martin, Asa
- 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: 1996.0320.20487
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.20487
- label number: 12744
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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