High brown blues: Historical Recording and Credits

Catalogue description

Victor 18904. Matrix/Take: B-26449/3.

Male vocal quartet and soloist, with orchestra

Recording and performance details

• Catalogue date: 1922-05-03
• Original format: Sound recording
• Genre: Ethnic characterizations; Blues
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Camden, New Jersey
• Collection: National Jukebox
• Repository: Recorded Sound Section, Library Of Congress
• Record label: Victor
• Catalogue number: 18904
• Matrix number: B-26449 (Matrix ID)
• Take number: 3
• Disc size: 10-inch
• Performance type: Vocal
• Catalogue subjects: Blues; Vocal; Ethnic characterizations; Victor
• Named contributors: Ager, Milton — Composer; Porter, Steve — Vocalist -- Baritone Vocal; Bourdon, Rosario — Conductor; Yellen, Jack — Lyricist; Gruner, William — Instrumentalist -- Bassoon; Young, John — Vocalist -- Tenor Vocal; Murray, Billy — Vocalist -- Tenor Vocal; American Quartet — Vocal Group; Chalmers, Donald — Vocalist -- Bass Vocal

Sources and reuse

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