Take Your Burdens To the Lord; Telephone To Glory: Museum Object and Cultural History
Take Your Burdens To the Lord; Telephone To Glory: recording date: 1929. recording artist: Jackson, Blind Willie. manufacturer: Broadway.
The object in the museum catalogue
Blind Willie Jackson. side 1: Take Your Burdens To the Lord; side 2: Telephone To Glory (Broadway 5050). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1929 and released on Paramount 12874 as by Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother.
Broadway Records was a record label formed in the 1920s and manufactured by the Bridgeport Die and Machine Company in Connecticut. The early Broadway issues were from Paramount Records masters. Beginning in 1924, Broadway issued records from Emerson and Banner masters. From 1925 to 1930, Broadway issues were predominately from Banner masters, a label of the Plaza Music Company.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1929
- recording artist: Jackson, Blind Willie
- manufacturer: Broadway
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: Wisconsin, Port Washington
- ID Number: 1996.0320.18592
- accession number: 1996.0320
- label number: 5050
- catalog number: 1996.0320.18592
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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