Friday, October 26, 2012

Race Record Advertisements from 1926-29


Ethel Waters sings ‘Shake That Thing’ — March 27, 1926

Bessie Smith sings ‘Back-Water Blues’ — April 2, 1927

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five play ‘You Made Me Love You’ — April 2, 1927

Clara Smith sings ‘Percolatin’ Blues’ — May 7, 1927

Barbecue Bob plays ‘Barbecue Blues’ — June 4, 1927

Reverend A.W. Nix and Congregation sing ‘The Black Diamond Express To Hell’ — July 2, 1927
Blue Belle (Bessie Mae Smith, with guitarist Lonnie Johnson) sings ‘High Water Blues’ — August 13, 1927

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven play ‘Alligator Crawl’ — September 3, 1927

Victoria Spivey sings ‘I Have Killed My Man’ — January 21, 1928

Emmett Miller plays ‘Thousand Frogs on a Log’ — March 3, 1928

Jim Jackson sings ‘Jim Jackson’s Kansas City Blues’ — April 7, 1928

Blue Belle sings ‘Dead Sea Blues’ and ‘Creepin’ Eel Blues’ — April 7, 1928

Jim Jackson sings ‘The Policy Blues’ — April 21, 1928

Victoria Spivey sings ‘Red Lantern Blues’ — April 28, 1928

Georgia Tom and Tampa Red play ‘Mama Don’t Allow No Easy Riders Here’ — December 7, 1929

Be a winner in everything with the 
‘CONQUEROR JOHN LUCKY ROOT BAG’

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