Also, the four members of Polk Miller's Old South Quartette were black. Polk was white. The members of the Fisk University Jubilee Quartette were also black. John M ----- Original Message ----- From: Steven Medved Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:42 AM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: Re: [Phono-L] African-American recording artists for Edison Hi Randy,
Thanks, I never knew Eva was black. Here is a letter from Ron: Steve, The real "Race Records" on Diamond Discs are very rare. TAE restricted their sales to southern states! There were only three so designated on their labels, 51476, 51477 and 51478. All were by Black artists; Josie Miles, Rosa Henderson and Viola McCoy. They were accompanied by the Kansas City Five, also Black artists. DD 51200 can be considered a race record, although it wasn't designated as such on its label. It features Ellen Coleman and Lem Fowler's Orch. Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle also can be heard on DD, plus Wilbur Sweatman's Orch. On Blue Amberol there is Edward S. Wright who did poetry readings from the works of Paul L. Dunbar, And of course there is the $1000 DD: 52646 by Eva Taylor and Clarence Williams($1000 was paid at a recent auction). Regards, Ron _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list [email protected] Phono-L Archive http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
