Showing all 10 Facts found
Click to filter results
The best fiddlers from local heats of a fiddle competition sponsored by automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, play in The Brown Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The winner, 60-year-old shoemaker W.H. Elmore from West Baden, Indiana, is named the "Champion of Dixie". Second and third places are taken by John L. Stevens [aka Uncle Bunt] and Marshall Claiborne. These three men will go on to represent the South in the championship contest in Detroit, Michigan.
The Troubadours record Only A Broken String Of Pearls, Down By The Winegar Woiks and Princess Flavia : Medley, for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
King's Book Of Hawaiian Melodies, by C. E. King is published. The book is notable for, among other things, the first publication of The Hawaiian Wedding Song.
Bennie Krueger And His Orchestra record Lonah and Don't Be A Fool, You Fool, for Brunswick Records in New York City, USA.
The Dixie Stompers record Nervous Charlie Stomp, Black Horse Stomp and I've Found A New Baby for Harmony Records in New York City, USA. The Dixie Stompers is a pseudonym for the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra.
The Fisk University Jubilee Singers record Shout All Over God's Heaven, Steal Away To Jesus and other songs for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Lonnie Johnson records Five O' Clock Blues, Johnson Trio Stomp, Nile Of Genago and Love Story Blues, for OKeh Records in New York City, USA.
Popular radio group The Billy McGinty Cowboy Band plays the fourth night of two weeks at the Orpheum Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.Variety magazine reports that popular fiddler and Victor
Records recording artist Mellie Dunham is "propositioning the radio broadcasters for a
$100 fee for 15 minutes of broadcasting".
Blues singer James Johnson records Newport Blues for OKeh Records in New York City, USA. Kazoo on this track is played by his rather more famous brother, Lonnie Johnson.