Sobbin' Blues; Sweet Lovin' Man: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

King Oliver's Jazz Band. side 1: Sobbin' Blues; side 2: Sweet Lovin' Man (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 8). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1923 and released on Okeh 4906.

Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] was a bootleg record label, founded around 1946-1947. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings of the 1920s. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings. These recordings first appeared in the record collector’s magazine The Record Changer publicizing the re-issue of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band recordings from 1923.

Materials, dates and provenance

• recording date: 1923
• recording artist: King Oliver's Jazz Band
• manufacturer: Hot Jazz Club of America
• 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: 1988.0698.0049
• catalog number: 1988.0698.0049
• accession number: 1988.0698
• collector/donor number: A49
• maker number: HC 8
• Credit Line: Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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