SPECKLED RED Welfare Blues MONTGOMERY WARD 78 RARE

$ 39

$ 39 Sold For

Jan 5, 2011 Sold Date

Dec 29, 2010 Start Date

$ 10 Start price

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A word about freight: No matter what Ebay says, we charge $ 6.90 for media mail and $9.50 (FOR 78's, for the extra packaging), for priority mail for domestic shipping. Overseas is $18.50 for first 78 and $4.00 for each thereafter, if you get over 4 lps then the rate goes up to $5 each, because we have to ship priority mail. When you place a bid on this item, you acknowledge this. They do not take into account, the box price nor any other expense in mailing (petrol, employees etc). This is our rate period. We've had a few complaints about this, but we are in business to make a profit (god forbid). Thanks for understanding. Also, if you do not register your parcel if ordering overseas (An additional $10.50), we cannot be responsible for loss. Thanks for understanding. We pay about $3 each for special boxes and packaging, this rate only applies to 78's. WE WANT YOUR ORDER TO ARRIVE SAFELY. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS SHIPPING RATE PLEASE DO NOT BID!!!

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What you are bidding on is a very very old, USA pressing of SPECKLED RED: WELFARE BLUES. The 10" is an original pressing from the 30 's on the MONTGOMERY WARD RECORD (ELECTRICALLY RECORDED) label. This is a classic pre war blues track and would sound great on a jukebox.

Speckled Red was the older brother of Piano Red, their nicknames derived from both men being albinos. The brothers were separated by almost a generation and never recorded together. Speckled Red and Piano Red both played in a raucous good time barrelhouse boogie-woogie style, although the elder Red played slow blues more often. Both recorded versions of "The Right String (But the Wrong Yo-Yo)", Speckled Red first in 1930, and the younger scored a big hit with the song 20-years later.

The family moved for brief periods during his early-to-mid teenage years to Detroit, Michigan, then Atlanta, Georgia after his father violated Jim Crow laws, before settling in Hampton, Georgia, where his birth was eventually registered some time later. The family itself, consisting of Perryman and 7 brothers and sisters, had little musical background, though Speckled Red was a self-taught piano player[2] (influenced primarily by his idol Fishtail, along with Charlie Spand, James Hemingway and Will Ezell, and inspired at his earliest point by Paul Seminole in a movie theatre) and also learned the organ at his local church.

By his mid-teens he was already playing house parties and juke joints, and moved back to Detroit in his mid-20s to play anywhere he could, including nightclubs and brothels, and was noticed by a Brunswick Records talent scout just before he left for Memphis, Tennessee, where he was located by Jim Jackson. It was here where he cut his first recording sessions, resulting in two classics for Brunswick in "Wilkins Street Stomp" and the hit “The Dirty Dozens”. The following year, 1930, he recorded again, this time in Chicago, Illinois, resulting in most notably “The Dirty Dozens No. 2,” which was not nearly as successful and the pianist was without a contract or label and again playing making the rounds at Memphis venues and St. Louis bars.

His 1938 session work in Aurora, Illinois with slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk and mandolinist Willie Hatcher for Bluebird Records was steady and long but also unsuccessful, and sometime after during the 1940s moved back to St. Louis and continued his career of playing taverns, as well working the public produce market doing manual labor until the servicemen returned home to heavy lifting jobs.

I grade the 78's visually inasmuch as I don't have a 78 player to play them. 1-10 ten (10 will be new and unplayed)(6-7 will be VG to VG+). Anything above a 5 is worth having in my opinion. 1-5 they are marked and scratchy, but still may play ok. Bear in mind most of these are nearly 70 years old and they won't look like they came off the store shelf.

Condition = 5-6

MONTGOMERY WARD M7918 ELECTRICALLY RECORDED

TRACKS:

WELFARE BLUES / EARLY IN THE MORNING

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