Where Is My Boy Tonight?: Work for the Night Is Coming: Museum Object and Cultural History
Where Is My Boy Tonight?: Work for the Night Is Coming: recording date: 1930. recording date: 1929. recording artist: McGhee, John.
The object in the museum catalogue
side 1: Walker Bros. Where Is My Boy Tonight; side 2: Norman and Norman. Work for the Night Is Coming (Broadway 8160) 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1930. Side 2 was recorded in 1929.
McGhee and Welling made this recording under the pseudonym of Walker Bros.
Norman and Norman is a pseudonym for Nelson and Nelson, which is probably Harry Charles (who also recorded as Harry Nelson. The other vocalist on the recording has not been identified.
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: 1930
- recording date: 1929
- recording artist: McGhee, John
- recording artist: Welling, Frank
- manufacturer: Broadway
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1996.0320.29160
- accession number: 1996.0320
- catalog number: 1996.0320.29160
- collector/donor number: 7358
- maker number: 8160
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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