MORRISON, MORRIE
Homebase: Seattle, WA
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b. 1888 - d.1984
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1.) WESTERN RANGERS
"Morrie and Alice Morrison— Northwest Music Industry Pioneers"
by Peter Blecha
Copyright (c) 2005 HistoryLink.org & Author
"At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a Pacific Northwest couple -- Howell Oakdeane 'Morrie' Morrison and his wife, Alice Nadine Morrison (1892-1978) -- launched what became the region's first successful local commercial pop music empire. Fueled by a fortune made off royalties earned from a string of original hit song compositions, the Morrisons' pioneering web of interrelated mom-and-pop businesses would grow to include a dance school, a sheet music publishing company, a vaudeville orchestra, a dancehall chain, a record label, a Seattle-based recording studio (with a record-pressing plant), and even a film production endeavor." [READ MORE...]
MISC NOTES: B-side composer Verna Wells was a piano teacher from a prominent Anacortes, Washington, family. See Bret Lunsford's Sounding Harry Smith book for more info.
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SIZE: 10"
SPEED: 78 rpm
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B-SIDE COMPOSER: Verna Wells
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 7"
SPEED: 45 rpm
DISC NOTES: Translucent yellow vinyl EP
A-SIDE MATRIX: SR 1A
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B-SIDE MATRIX: SR 1B
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