Note: this audio has been cleaned up, if you'd like to hear the preservation copy please email me at researchrequest@dollarcountry.org

Recordio Disc

8"

70 rpm

1949-02-05

1949-02-16

Unknown Mandolin Song

Just A Little Lovin'

Boil Them Cabbage Down

Frankie & Johnny

Lady Of Spain

Homemade Recordio Disc. Playing surface is unbroken but shows casual wear. Labels are written on with pencil.

Side A:
Slepy and Huney
& Gan.
Feb 5 1949
No. 7

Side B:
Frankey Johney
Feb 16 1949
No. 8

Side A is a recording of the Magic Valley Jamboree from Charleston WV in 1949, hosted by Sleepy and Honey. The audio starts with the end of a song featuring the mandolin on a radio program with many people present. Somebody says "That's Frank Hall on mandolin" after it stops. Then someone mentions that their steel guitar player has a voice like Frank Sinatra. Chubby Wise is called up to the microphone and sings Just A Little Lovin' with guitar accompaniment. Afterwards the whole band gets together into a version of Boil Them Cabbage Down.

Side B is a recording of a radio program playing Frankie & Johnny by Maggie Whiting and Jack Smith. An announcer gives the name of the artists and then goes into a version of Lady Of Spain.

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2.0mil

2.5g

Digitized with funding from the Ohio Arts Council

Really great snippet of a jamboree radio show from 1949. The hosts are Sleepy Jeffers & Honey Davis, but they only play on the last song. They refer to the singer of Just A Little Lovin as Chubby Wise but I couldn't find any evidence that he'd ever done that song anywhere else, nor had I ever heard him play guitar and sing before. I know him as a fiddle player, but there it is right in the audio.