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Love in My Heart; Sugar Hill Shim Sham: Museum Object and Cultural History

Love in My Heart; Sugar Hill Shim Sham: recording date: 1937. recording artist: Hodges, Johnny. recording artist: Carney, Harry.

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The object in the museum catalogue

Rex Stewart's Ellingtonians. side 1: Love in My Heart; side 2: Sugar Hill Shim Sham (Blue Ace 232). 78 rpm. Both tracks were recorded in 1937 and released on Vocalion 3844.

Blue Ace was a bootleg record label, founded around the late 1940s. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings from the 1935-1942 period. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings, who was also associated with the bootleg Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] recordings, which focused on jazz recordings of the 1920s.

Materials, dates and provenance

  • recording date: 1937
  • recording artist: Hodges, Johnny
  • recording artist: Carney, Harry
  • recording artist: Ellington, Duke
  • recording artist: Fleagle, Brick
  • recording artist: Alvis, Hayes
  • recording artist: Maisel, Jack
  • recording artist: Rex Stewart's Ellingtonians
  • recording artist: Stewart, Rex
  • Object Name: sound recording
  • Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
  • Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
  • place made: United States: New York, Brooklyn
  • ID Number: 1988.0698.2173
  • catalog number: 1988.0698.2173
  • accession number: 1988.0698
  • collector/donor number: S136
  • Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
  • Data Source: National Museum of American History

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