1926 LILL'S HOT SHOTS Vocalion 1037 78 rpm jazz record

$

179

   Hello again, fellow 78 buffs.  I'm back after a three-year hiatus (just got laid off again !) with numerous lots of ten-each 1920's jazz and dance band 78's, along with some interesting singles I'll be listing over the next couple of weeks.  There'll be at least some occasional jazz and scarce label items mixed into the multi-lots, and some nice jazz, blues, and hillbilly single listings, so be sure to scan them thoroughly to ensure that you don't miss out on something you need for your collection.  Please bear with my sometimes lengthy item descriptions; I love these old records, and this is about the only place I get to talk about them !  I'll have the shipping total after the auction concludes (depending on combined shipping and/or your election of either Priority or Media Rate shipment),  but I promise I'll keep shipping at no more than actual cost to us. 

   GEORGIA BO-BO / DROP THAT SACK: LILL'S HOT SHOTS, on Vocalion 1037.  This is one of my absolute favorite records; it hurts to sell it, but times is tough !  If we were to make a time capsule for posterity, I'd recommend either of these sides as one of those sublime exemplars of what jazz is all about.  Of course the line-up is the same as that of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five under contract to Okeh at the time, with Louis on cornet, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lillian Armstrong on piano, and Johnny St. Cyr on banjo, recorded in Chicago, 20 April 1926.  I seem to recall a story about Okeh big-shot Tommy Rockwell calling Louis in and playing him a copy of Vocalion 1037; "Who do you think that is singing, there, Louis ?" Rockwell asked.  "Well, I don't know sir ... but I won't do it again !"  This take of "Drop That Sack" is the second, rarer take (mx.# E-3158), which the 78Q cadre opined as probably having fewer than ten copies extant.   

  The record has some kind of light, smoky film on it that makes it look V--, but it actually plays fairly well.  The surface noise is relatively light, even, and not brash, although there's a little bit of extra swishiness and muffledness in the very beginning of "Georgia Bo-Bo".  The music plays fairly strongly but slightly muffledly in a few places, and the recording balance is a little distant.  The labels are a little faded.  I have set a reserve at only 75 % of what I paid for the record.  Own a hot 78Q rarity today !         

                      PLEASE SEE MY OTHER 1920'S JAZZ, DANCE, BLUES, HILLBILLY, ETC. 78'S FOR SALE THIS MONTH.