Recordio Disc

8"

78 rpm

1949-07-26

1949-07-28

Unknown Fiddle Tune

Hungry Hash House Blues

Unknown Western Swing Song

The Washington Post

When The Bloom Is On The Sage

Unknown Western Ballad

Homemade Recordio Disc. Playing surface is red with many scuff marks and divots. There is one chip on the run in groove of the March side. Labels are written on with pencil and in relatively good shape.

Side A:
Sleppy & Hunney
78 RPM
7-26-49
No. 1

Side B:
7-28-49
No. 1

Side A starts with a snippet of an unknown fiddle tune and has a short announcement afterwards before a quick cut to a song (presumably) sung by Sleepy Jeffers, after which is another cut to a short western swing song. Side B starts with a quick cut into The Washington Post march by Sousa then a quick cut into the end of When The Bloom Is On The Sage, a short announcement, and then another crooning western song before the side ends.

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

2.0mil

2.5g

2025.02.28: Donated by 000038

2025.09.03: Digitized

2025.09.03: Entered into this database

Digitized with funding from the Ohio Arts Council

After the country song someone in the crowd refers to the singer as "Willie" which made me think it wasn't Sleepy Jeffers, but I have read that Sleepy had a comic alter ego called Little Willie, and considering the tone of this song this may have been that alter ego.