CLASSIC BLUES 78 ROCK ME MAMMA - ARTHUR BIG BOY CRUDUP

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AN EXCELLENT PLAYING COPY OF THIS RARE BLUES 78 FROM ELVIS INSPIRATION ARTHUR "BIG BOY" CRUDUP ON THE ORIGINAL US BLUEBIRD LABEL

Recorded:
Chicago, December 15. 1944
Arthur „Big Boy" Cudrup (g/vcl)
Melvin Draper (d)

"Big Boy" Crudup was a great blues singer and writer who was well-known throughout the United States. He was born on August 24, 1905. Arthur Crudup began his musical career singing gospel in church choirs.He began playing the blues for parties in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1939, but Crudup moved to Chicago in the hopes of making a better living. For awhile he played street corners in Chicago blues, but what he earned was not enough to live on. He lived in a packing crate underneath an elevated train track until he was found by blues producer Lester Melrose. Crudup was hired to play at a party at Tampa Red's house in 1941, and as a result of that night, was signed to record for RCA/Bluebird. However, the relationship with Melrose deteriorated after Crudup found out that he was not being paid royalties for the songs he wrote in 1947. By this time Crudup had become an innovator because his sound was his own. He returned to Mississippi after his falling out with Melrose and ran a successful bootlegging business. He did continue to record with RCA in the late 1940's and 50's, and he also toured with Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) and Elmore James.

He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs later covered by Elvis Presley (and since covered by dozens of other artists), such as "That's All Right (Mama)" (1946), "My Baby Left Me"

DISC DETAILS

US BLUEBIRD 34-0725      10" 78rpm SHELLAC   

SIDE 1 :-  ROCK ME MAMMA 

SIDE 2:-   WHO'S BEEN FOOLIN' YOU - Blues

Condition =  EX/E-

TWO GREAT SIDES FROM ARTHUR CRUDUP IN GREAT PLAYING CONDITION

SO DON'T MISS OUT !!!

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POSTAGE STUFF

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I AM HAPPY TO OFFER A POSTAGE REBATE  FOR EVERY EXTRA 78rpm RECORD BOUGHT THAT GOES IN THE SAME POSTAL PACKET

10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND I CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!!

 THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A CORREGATED OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,

USUALLY FOR MAILING OVERSEAS, I RECOMMEND NO MORE THAN 7 IN A BOX, OTHERWISE IT GOES OVER THE AIRMAIL SMALL PACKET MAXIMUM WEIGHT OF 2Kgs WHICH CAUSES A LARGE HIKE IN POSTAL RATES.

I PACK VERY VERY SAFELY BUT I AM NOT FAST!!

MY STANDARD DISPATCH TIME IS TEN WORKING DAYS!

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