Pasquale Sciascia & Co on Columbia Blue Wax 78, rustic folk vocals from Abruzzo

Record is in Very Nice E- condition. Pressed on Columbia Royal Blue Shellac. Labels are good.

Pasquale Sciascia & Co. performing Prima sci e dpo ca no / E' bbone a ffa l'amore.

1929 catalog number but a later label type, circa 1932. The Royal Blue shellac began in December, 1932.

Nice disc with male-female off-key singing with a rudimentary, raw flair that makes this disc special - backing group is slightly more professional "village" band with strings and a small ensemble.

Recorded in September of 1929 in NYC.

Geography, it’s been said, is destiny. That explains why the music of émigrés to early 20th century America was recorded long before that of long-rooted communities in the South: the center of commercial recording was New York City. The nascent recording industry quickly discovered it could turn modest profits from records marketed to even fairly small immigrant communities, and did a healthy trade with large ones. Italians were prime targets, since three million Italians had immigrated to America between 1900 and 1915.

Among them were Pasquale Sciascia and his wife Chiarina. They were from Abruzzo, a region described as “isolated and wild,” its people “strong and self-reliant.” Many Abruzzese settled in Philadelphia, where the Sciascias became popular entertainers. This led to their recording 44 sides for Victor, Brunswick, and Columbia between 1927 and 1933. They were “the best selling Abruzzese artists of their time,” producing recordings that “captured some very old Italian folk songs for the first time.” - from The Old-Time Herald website.

Terrific and Scarce Italian Blue Shellac 78 in Very Nice E- condition.

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