I Surrender All; Going down the Valley: Museum Object and Cultural History
I Surrender All; Going down the Valley: recording date: 1930. recording artist: McGhee, John. recording artist: Welling, Frank.
The object in the museum catalogue
Harper and Turner. side 1: I Surrender All; side 2: Going Down the Valley (Supertone 9725) 78 rpm. This coupling was initially released on Gennett 7294.
Harper and Turner is a pseudonym on Supertone for John McGhee and Frank Welling.
Supertone Records was a record label sold by the Sears-Roebuck Company in their stores and through mail-order. The first pressings of Supertone were made by the Fletcher Record Company and then Bridgeport Die and Machine Company in 1924. Within a year, Sears discontinued the label. Supertone was produced by Straus and Schram from 1925 to 1928 after Sears failed to register the Supertone brand name. In 1928, Sears regained the brand name and sold records produced by Gennett records until 1930. The Brunswick Radio Corporation produced the last of the Supertone records through 1931.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1930
- recording artist: McGhee, John
- recording artist: Welling, Frank
- manufacturer: Supertone
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1996.0320.17329
- catalog number: 1996.0320.17329
- label number: 9725
- accession number: 1996.0320
- 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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