Dollar Country

Sleepy Jeffers, The Davis Twins & Ted Donley

Item

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Source

Streaming Audio

A1: Unknown Fiddle Instrumental 1:
A2: Great Speckled Bird
B1: Unknown Guitar Instrumental:
B2: Unknown Vocal Song:
B3: Unknown Fiddle Instrumental 2:

Brand

Recordio Disc

Size

8"

Speed

78 rpm

Date

July 1, 949

Tracks

Unknown Fiddle Instrumental
The Great Speckled Bird
Unknown Guitar Instrumental
Unknown Vocal Song
Unknown Fiddle Instrumental

Physical Description

Wilcox-Gay Recordio Disc with black playing surface. Outer ring of label ink looks slightly blurry as if it was water damaged. Disc is nice and flat and the playing surface looks very clean.

Text On Label

Side A: Honey & Sonney &
Ted Donley & Sleppey
78rpm
July 1 1949
Side B: Honney & Sonney
Davis Twins

Audio Description

Side A: Contains two songs. The first is a fiddle instrumental with the sound of people in the room after the music is done. A quick cut to the next song with is a vocal duet of The Great Speckled Bird.
Side B: Contains three songs. First song is an unknown guitar instrumental that quickly cuts to a second short snippet of a vocal country pop song about the horse called Old Paint. It isn't the song Old Paint, but a song from the point of view of the horse itself. It may be an original. The last song is a very fast fiddle instrumental. You can hear people in the background enjoying it.

Transfer Information

Rek-O-Kut TT > Waxwing ESP > Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 > Reaper v6.75

Stylus Used

2.5mil

Tracking Force

2.0g

Date Added To Collection

Origin

2025.02.28: Donated by 000038
2025.08.19: Digitized
2025.08.19: Entered into this database

Additional Notes

Digitized with funding from the Ohio Arts Council

Citation

Sleepy Jeffers, The Davis Twins & Ted Donley, accessed September 6, 2025, https://dollarcountry.org/items/show/28335