"Darktown Strutters Ball" / "Alexander's Ragtime Band"

SERIAL#: 01
DATE: 1945

MISC NOTES: Norm Bobrow believed that this record was the very first jazz recording produced in Seattle. That seems correct. But when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist, Emmett Watson, wrote about it in 1979 he got things mixed up a bit. It was not the "first...commercial recording" cut here -- that was Vic Meyer's "Shake It..." 78 disc from 1923. Also, it remains unknown whether Frank Sugia contributed to this recording.

LOCATION: Seattle
RECORDING PERSONNEL: Norm Bobrow (vocal); Gay Jones Orchestra.
RECORDING STUDIO: Western
RECORDING ENGINEER: Jimmy Linden (?)

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SIZE: 10"
SPEED: 78 rpm
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