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While very little information seems to be available on Ermine Calloway, here is an interesting little blog and a recording of her in 1979.

http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet0313.htm

Thank you for that link, this is highly interesting, especially her talking. You can still hear close a similarity to her early recordings.

WDC wrote:Thank you for that link, this is highly interesting, especially her talking. You can still hear close a similarity to her early recordings.

No problem. I am wondering when she passed? Unless she is still alive??

Actually, a fellow member of this forum was so kind to share shed some light on this matter, that she did pass away in 1979.

WDC wrote:Actually, a fellow member of this forum was so kind to share shed some light on this matter, that she did pass away in 1979.

That would have been right after the interview.

At the start of the mp3 recording, it was stated that the interviewer was Al Pushkin. Small world, I knew Al in Houston around that time. He had a huge collection of Edison disks, thousands of them. He had shelves that filled an entire wall. I never heard what became of his collection.