Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy, Rainy Day); Away Down South in Heaven: Museum Object and Cultural History
Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy, Rainy Day); Away Down South in Heaven: recording date: 1928. recording artist: Jay C. Flippen and his Gang. manufacturer: Perfect.
The object in the museum catalogue
Jay C. Flippen and his Gang. side 1: Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (On a Rainy, Rainy Day); side 2: Away Down South in Heaven (Perfect 12406). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1928 and released on Pathé 32329. Pressed on brown shellac.
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: 1928
- recording artist: Jay C. Flippen and his Gang
- manufacturer: Perfect
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1988.0698.0997
- catalog number: 1988.0698.0997
- accession number: 1988.0698
- collector/donor number: F12
- maker number: 12406
- Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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