1940 Louis Armstrong W.P.A. 78 RPM Banned Decca Blue Label
$
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Record is a bit worn but looks to be in overall good condition, does have a very small chip on the rim of the record. See pictures for details, I do not have any way to test play this
This was banned by the big 3 radio networks and withdrawn from circulation by Decca because the Roosevelt administration believed the lyrics on W.P.A. were "un-american". This censorship also happened with a Decca Skeets Tolbert + a Jan Savitt disc with the same W.P.A. tune, also a never released Glenn Miller song was affected. WPA stands for Works Progress Administration, a depression era Roosevelt work program, aka as "We Poke Along"
Record is a very cool piece of American history
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