Why, dear?: Historical Recording and Credits
Why, dear?: Catalogue date: 1921-09-20. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.

Catalogue description
Victor 18816. Matrix/Take: B-25614/5.
Jazz/dance band, with piano duet
Recording and performance details
- Catalogue date: 1921-09-20
- Original format: Sound recording
- Genre: Popular music
- Location as catalogued: New York, New York
- Collection: National Jukebox
- Repository: Recorded Sound Section, Library Of Congress
- Record label: Victor
- Catalogue number: 18816
- Matrix number: B-25614 (Matrix ID)
- Take number: 5
- Disc size: 10-inch
- Performance type: Instrumental
- Catalogue subjects: Victor; Instrumental; Popular music
- Named contributors: Smith, Joseph C. — Leader; Banta, Frank E. — Instrumentalist -- Piano; Frey, Hugo — Instrumentalist -- Piano; Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra — Musical Group; Cohen, Henry R. — Composer
Sources and reuse
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