Re: [Harp-L] first live amplified recording?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

The OKEH discography:

http://books.google.com/books?id=nrT7KE9cOpsC&pg=RA1-PA577&lpg=RA1-PA577&dq=frank+hutchison+from+the+okeh+medicine&source=web&ots=2yDQ1BfBuM&sig=HwO8x0MWYv6zqp6b4aEAg5j5voc

seems to indicate that the Hutchison recordings were made in New York
in September, 1929, which places them several months after the April
Harmonica Charlie recording made from a broadcast from the Cotton Club.
However, my hunch is that, while the Hutchison recordings represent a
medicine show, that they are studio re-enactments of a live event,
something often done in the early history of commercial recording. I
think the main source of live recordings from that period are the "air
checks" made from live broadcasts. I'm not sure that medicine shows
were being broadcast from New York City in 1929 - Nashville or Memphis,
quite possibly, and maybe even Chicago.

Winslow

--- Dave Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  
>   I'll have to look into this further, but I think some of the
> recordings of Frank Hutchison from the OKEH medicine show might go
> back further than 1929. 
> 
>   Dave Payne Sr. 
>   Elk River Harmonicas 
>   www.elkriverharmonicas.com
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