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Gold Coast Express; Woman's Answer To Nobody's Darling: Museum Object and Cultural History

Gold Coast Express; Woman's Answer To Nobody's Darling: recording date: 1936. recording date: 1935. recording artist: Montana, Patsy.

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The object in the museum catalogue

Patsy Montana with the Prairie Ramblers. side 1: Gold Coast Express; side 2: Woman's Answer To Nobody's Darling (Perfect 6-08-52). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1935. Side 2 was recorded in 1936. This saew 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: 1936
  • recording date: 1935
  • recording artist: Montana, Patsy
  • recording artist: Prairie Ramblers
  • 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: 1996.0320.21470
  • accession number: 1996.0320
  • label number: 6-08-52
  • catalog number: 1996.0320.21470
  • Data Source: National Museum of American History

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.

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