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Fact #56492

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Aletha Mae Dickerson is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. As a recording manager for Paramount Records, she will supervise sessions by Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Will Ezell, The Pace Jubilee Singers, Blind Blake, Meade Lux Lewis and others. She is regarded as being an influential individual in the early development of "race music".

Full article:

Aletha Mae Dickerson : I had a system! To have a good selling record, all I had to do was have something recorded I didn't like and wouldn't buy if it was on the market. I'd found that the songs and artists I liked didn't sell, and what I didn't like sold like mad.

I had no desire to or expectation of being what was then called "recording manager" for Paramount. I was neither asked whether or not I wanted such a position, nor even informed until three months after the fact. My resentment about this has not diminished with the years! (Source : http://www.vjm.biz/new_page_18.htm)