NEGRO SINFUL SONGS by LEAD BELLY 5 ALBUM set VERY RARE

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NEGRO SINFUL SONGS sung by LEAD BELLY
5 DISC ALBUM of 78s 
ORIGINAL AND VERY RARE

NEGRO SINFUL SONGS was Lead Belly's first commercially available album, released in 1939.  Most of the tracks were recorded in the New York studios of Musicraft Records in 1939. This is the ORIGINAL MULTI-RECORD ALBUM FROM 1939 with the five 78s still in their sleeves.

We have not attempted to listen to these records, and have left them exactly as found, so please bid with caution.

Title: NEGRO SINFUL SONGS

Label: MUSICRAFT CORPORATION
Description of Album:  10.5" x 12". Linen spine binding and cardboard pictorial front cover. Sepia tone photograph of cotton pickers on a plantation. Interior has 5 sleeves containing records.
Vinyl:  5 (five) 78 rpm discs:

First record is Album 31 226B 'De Kalb Blues' and 226-A 'The Boll Weevil'.

Second record is Album 31 225-A 'Poor Howard' and 'Green Corn", verso has 225-B 'Fannin Street'. 

Third record is Album 31 223B 'Frankie and Albert' (Completion).  and verso 223-A 'Frankie and Albert' (first half) .

Fourth record is Album 31 224-B 'Ain't Goin' Down To the Well No Mo' and "Go Down Old Hannah' and verso 224-A  'Looky, Looky Yonder', 'Black Betty',  'Yallow Women's Door Bells'

Fifth record is Album 31 227-A 'The Gallis Pole' and verso 227-B 'The Bourgeois Blues'.

ALL records are intact, NO CRACKS or major scratches. A couple of the albums have minor surface scratches. REMEMBER we have not attempted to play these albums and do not know if the surface scratches will cause skipping.

The Books spine is gone, front and back covers are not attached but all the sleeves are attached to each other.

Also included and pictured is a typed out lyrics page to the “Bourgeois Blues” song.  This is not original to the album, but was found in the book, so I am including it with this auction. I don’t know where it came from, but the page is very old and has much ware to it.

I can either send it by Media Rate for  $3.55 OR Priority Mail for $10.70, Your Choice.

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Thanks for Looking & Happy Bidding J