Boxing Day Bargains

[Lenoirstreetguy]

Hit the flea market today and found Blue Amberol cylinders " in the wild" for the first time in perhaps 10 years. This is a rare thing up here so I bought 15 @ $2.50 a piece. Nothing earth shaking but I did get 1609 Don't Turn my Picture to the Wall by Spenser and Van Brunt which is charming beyond measure.... and an appalling vaudeville sketch 3899 Little Arrow and Big Chief Grease Paint by Ada Jones and Len Spencer. It's so bad it's actually good. A late Vaughn de Leath I Love the Land of Old Black Joe in a French Edison two minute box, which I 've seen in pics but never in the flesh. Here t'is.
Thank you , Santa!
Now, the Little Arrow and Big Chief Grease Paint is numerically well into the dubbed era but it sure sounds like a direct recording. Anybody got the Amberol Book that tells the direct ones that slipped in later?

Jim

[gregbogantz]

Yes, this BA #3899 was a direct recording and was first issued as a wax amberol #108.