Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Can I Sleep in Your Barn To-night, Mister?: Museum Object and Cultural History
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Can I Sleep in Your Barn To-night, Mister?: recording date: 1927. recording artist: Dalhart, Vernon. manufacturer: Perfect.
The object in the museum catalogue
Vernon Dalhart. side 1: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; side 2: Can I Sleep in Your Barn To-Night, Mister? (Perfect 12327). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1927 and released on Pathé32248.
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: 1927
- recording artist: Dalhart, Vernon
- manufacturer: Perfect
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: New York, Brooklyn
- ID Number: 1996.0320.14462
- collector/donor number: 14303
- maker number: 12327
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.14462
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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