She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes; Who Broke the Lock On the Hen-house Door?: Museum Object and Cultural History
She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes; Who Broke the Lock On the Hen-house Door?: recording date: 1929. recording artist: Smoky Mountain Ramblers. manufacturer: Supertone.
The object in the museum catalogue
Smoky Mountain Ramblers. side 1: She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain When She Comes; side 2: Who Broke the Lock on the Hen-House Door? (Supertone S2052) 78 rpm. Both tracks were recorded in 1929 and initially released on Brunswick 310.
Smoky Mountain Ramblers is a pseudonym on Supertone for H. M. Barnes and his Blue Ridge Ramblers.
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: 1929
- recording artist: Smoky Mountain Ramblers
- 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: 1996.0320.27423
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.27423
- collector/donor number: 7679
- maker number: S2052
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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