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I'd Do Anything for You; Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
Object Details
- Description
Rhythmakers. side 1: I'd Do Anything For You; side 2: Mean Old Bed Bug Blues (Melotone M 12457).
78 rpm. Both tracks were released on other American Record Corporation (ARC) labels.Rhythmakers is a pseudonym on Melotone for Billy Banks and his Orchestra.
Melotone Records was an American budget record label founded by Warner/Brunswick Records, in 1930. Melotone originally featured jazz and popular dance music of the period, most often using pseudonyms for New York area studio musicians on the recordings. In 1932, Melotone was acquired by the American Record Corporation (ARC). The label ceased production in 1938.
In 1929, the American Record Corporation (ARC) was established with the merger of three companies. These were the Cameo Record Corporation (which owned Cameo, Lincoln and Romeo Records), the Pathé Phonograph and Radio Corporation (which owned Actuelle, Pathé, and Perfect), and the Plaza Music Company (which owned Banner, Domino, Jewel, Oriole, and Regal).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Howard A. Guernsey (through Richard L. Guernsey)
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- recording date
- 1932
- ID Number
- 1988.0698.2014
- catalog number
- 1988.0698.2014
- accession number
- 1988.0698
- collector/donor number
- R25
- maker number
- M12457
- recording artist
- Rhythmakers
- Billy Banks and his Orchestra
- manufacturer
- Melotone
- Object Name
- sound recording
- Physical Description
- shellac (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made
- United States
- Related Publication
- Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897-1942, Vol. 1
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- Record ID
- nmah_1059782
- Usage
- CC0
