78 RPM Columbia 1905-D Ethel Waters Shoo Shoo Bogie Boo 1929
  $   26

 


$ 26 Sold For
May 8, 2017 Sold Date
May 3, 2017 Start Date
$   4 Start price
6   Number Of Bids
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She started out as a blues singer in the 1920s and late in life performed with the Billy Graham Crusade.  In between she popularized “Am I Blue,” (1929) sang on the Broadway stage – “Heat Wave” in As Thousands Cheer (1933)  – and acted in movies including Cabin in the Sky (1942) and Member of the Wedding (1950).  And she was the first Afro-American woman to be nominated for an Emmy (1962).  On this Columbia Viva-Tonal, Waters sings “Shoo Shoo Bogie Boo” and “Do I Know What I’m Doing,” recorded on June 7, 1929.   Condition E--

NOTE: I grade records by a rating system that has been standard in the industry for decades.  Still, it can be a subjective undertaking.  I am more likely to grade by how the record reproduces aurally (I use a 78 Shure cartridge with a 1950s Voice of Music turntable that has been fit into a 1946 Magnavox Belvedere radio-phonograph) than by how it looks visually.  Sometimes a record that appears substantially worn plays very well and sometimes the opposite is true.


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