OFFERS INVITED: RUSS SHOR PO BOX 4181 CARLSBAD CA 92018 USA

Email: russellshor@cox.net

AUCTION CLOSES 14th JUNE 2010

A Short but Sweet list of 78s. Followed by some seldom - seen books

78s….some ultra-clean beauties here. MIN $15 unless noted

          VICTORS

1    EARL HINES OR Sister Kate/McKinney’s C.P. I Want Yr Luv Vi22683 E- (tiny dig nap) Super loose & hot New Orleans-style side wGeorge Mitchell.

2    JELLY ROLL MORTON TRIO Smilin Blues/Turtle Twist Vi38108 E- (some scuffs) Truly underrated HOT side.Some of his best piano!

3    RED & MIFFS STOMPERS Davenport Blues/Delirium NEW--

4    JULIA GERITY & SNOOKS MEMPHIS STOMPERS A Good Man is Hard 2 Find/(Boyd Senter Senterpedes) Waterloo Vi22812 E—V++

COLUMBIAS….some dealers stock ones here

5    DONALD LINDLEY & BOYS Slidin’Around /Nothin DOin Col. 1443-D NEW-

6    CHARLESTON CHASERS (W Eva Taylor) Turn on the Heat/What WOuldn’t I Do For that Man Col 1989-D..NEW –

7    BOBBIE CADILLAC & COLEY JONES Listen Everybody/Easin In’ Col 14505 NEW- (min.$250) great guitar

8    MATTIE HITE Texas Twist/St James Infirmary Col. 14503-D E++ (tiny press bump NAP) $100

9    CLARA SMITH & BAND Rock Church Rock/Look Where the Sun Col 14138 E+ (this has a matte pressing like many 1926-7 Cols.) NEW – $50

10    CLARA SMITH Basement Blues/Mamas Gone Goodbye Col 14039-D E

11    ISSIE RINGGOLD (w Cornet acc) Be On Your Merry Way/He’s a Good Meat Cutter Col 14509-D V+++ (little wear. Scuffs)

12    MARTHA COPELAND (nice acc.) Hobo Bill/Nobody Rocks Me Col.14248-D E—(faded lbl)

13    MISSISSIPPI MAULERS My Angeline/Don’t Mess Around Col 1545-D V (plays better) Min $6

14    JAMES CLARK (Muddy Waters first commercial disc!) Cant Make the Grade/Come to Me Baby Col 37391 E+/E- (this is much rarer and much better blues than the "common" James Clark Columbia)Min $20

15    MARSHALL SMITH & JOHN MARLOR Jonah/Home in the Rock Col 15090 E- very good country record

MISCELLANEOUS LABELS

16    ALLEN BROTHERS Cross Fire Blues /Bad For you Bb 5872 E+

17    MARION HARRIS Singin the Blues/Monday, Tues. DeE 5160. E- (Marion sings Bix’s solo on this scarce 1934 disc) $25

18    SPIKE HUGHES ORCH Elegy/Limehouse Blues E+

19    FRANK GURANTE ORCH When Polly Walks Thru Hollyhocks (HOT!)/(Golden Gate O) Please Let Me Dream Har 830 E+/E $8

J20    OE SMITH MARTHA LEE CLUB OR Nora Lee/(Melody Sheiks) LAR 4298 E- (a lite heat mrk. Plays w a very light thump) Rare Lindstron Okeh disc

21    LADDS BLACK ACES Black Eye Blues/Muscle Shoals Bls Gen 4869 E $10

22    LUMBERJACKS Would You Be Happy /(No int) Ro 949 E—

23    JOHNNY WILLIAMS SWING SEXTET Wheres My Sweetie Hiding/Little Old Lady Vri 594 E- A wild trad jazz romp!

BOOKS & DISCOGS: Min $10 unless noted

24    BLACK BEAUTY/WHITE HEAT Pictorial History of Jazz 1920-50 . Frank Driggs & Harris Levine. Orig. hardback edition (no dust jacket but otherwise pretty clean) 1982 360 pp This is a classic rarity! Min $35

25    JAZZ RECORD BOOK Fred Ramsey and Charles Edward Smith 1942. The first comprehensive survey of jazz. Orig hardback 307 pp no dustjacket. Clean!

26    REALLY THE BLUES Mezz Mezzrow and B Wolfe 1946 Orig hard back no dustjacket. A marvelous portrait of 1920s Chicago and jazz musicians

27    PAUL WHITEMAN CHRONOLOGY by Carl Johnson. Paperback produced by Whiteman archive, Williams College, in 1977 detailing his full career in context of developments in jazz and popular music. 40 pp. Exc cond. A few repros of concert bills etc but no photos (No. Min)

28    RECORDED RAGTIME 1897-1958 Dave Jason-- Hardback . The first comprehensive survey of recorded ragtime.. Covers a lot that Rust doesn’t. 148pp

29    AFRICAN AMERICAN BLUES, R&B, GOSPEL ON FILM 1926-1997 Paul Vernon. The definitive survey of all known films of these genres through this 70 year time span 420pp

30    (Art Rollini) THIRTY YEARS WITH BIG BANDS. Autobiog. Lots of good early stuff about Adrian, Elizalde, Calif. Ramblers etc. pix. Like New. 134pp

31    (EDDIE LANG) FEELING MY WAY. Bio-discography by Raymond Mitchell. Extensive discog. Of LANG. 1923-33. Like New 378 pp. Hardback.Large format Mn $35

32    (Benny Goodman) BG ON THE RECORD by Russ Connor. Hardback, 1958 . This is the definitive BG discog. Privately printed. Some check marks and underlines but otherwise is nice cond. This printing did not have a dust jacket..reprints did) 308pp. Signed by Connor.

33    (Benny Goodman) WRAPPIN IT UP. Russ Connor. 1996 sequel to the above. Haerdback 180 pp. Like New. Large format.

34    BENNY KING OF SWING. Pictorial biog. With photos from BG archive. 1979. Has hundreds of pix, including a lot of 20s-era stuff… Like new. Large format

35    (Benny Goodman) SWING SWING SWING. 1993.Life and Times of BG. Ross Firestone. 520 pp. Hardback Like New. Nice pix.

36    BENNY GOODMAN & SWING ERA James Lincoln Collier. 1989. Extensive and well written examination of BG career . 404 pp. Hardback. Like New

37    BENNY GOODMAN PAPERS . David Geir, Loren Schoenberg et al. A catalog of BG archives at Yale Univ. including arrangements dating back to 1930s. Large format 400 pp. Like New

38    HOT DISCOGRAPHY Chas Delaunay . Commodore Music shop reprint of 1938 ed. From 1942. Spine taped. Lots of marks inside and taped in additions and corrections. But it’s all there. A great piece of jazz history

39    NEW HOT DISCOGRAPHY Chas Delaunay. 1948. Decent shape (rare for this work) with a lot of check marks and underlines.

40    BLUES & GOSPEL ..the classic Dixon & Godrich ed. 1969. Decent shape. Some underlines and check marks.

41    JAZZ RECORDS 1897-1942 (2 Vols). Brian Rust. The classic 1972 edition. Decent shape with some check marks and underlines.

42    BLUES RECORDS 1943-1966. Ledbetter & Slevin 1969. Dustjacet torn but still there. Otherwise decent condition with usual check marks and underlines

43    GLENN MILLER & His Orc. George T. Simon. 1974 Hard back. No dustjacket. Interesting sections on early career in 20s. 474 pp.

44    DEVILS MUSIC History of the Blues by Giles Oakley 1997. Paperback Like New. Profiles of traditional bluesmen from early days to 1980s.

45    78 BLUES by John Minton.. a book on how 1920s recordings shaped and influenced blues and country music Hardback. Like new 288pp.

 

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