Recordings made Friday, January 16, 1931
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| Company | Matrix Number | Size | First Take Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | FVE-UNI-6 | 35mm film | 1/16/1931 | Universal newspaper newsreel. Vol. 3, no. 6 | Universal Pictures Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack | |
| Victor | MRC-67827 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | What a widow | United Artists Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MRC-67828 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | What a widow | United Artists Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MRC-67829 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | What a widow | United Artists Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Gramophone | 0BR99 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Song of songs | Sydney Gustard | Pipe organ solo | |
| Gramophone | 0BR96 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Trees | Sydney Gustard | Pipe organ solo | |
| Brunswick | XC7302 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 97, pt. 1 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7303 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 97, pt. 2 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7304 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 98, pt. 1 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7305 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 98, pt. 2 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7306 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 99, pt. 1 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7307 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 99, pt. 2 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7308 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 100, pt. 1 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7309 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 100, pt. 2 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7310 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 101, pt. 1 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7311 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 101, pt. 2 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7312 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 102, pt. 1 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Brunswick | XC7313 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Louie’s Hungry Five, episode 102, pt. 2 | Speaker(s) (unidentified; Brunswick Records] | Radio transcription disc : Comic scene, with instrumental ensemble | |
| Columbia | W151227 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | You're the one I care for | Ruth Etting | Female vocal solo, with piano | |
| Brunswick | XE35170 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | De heab’nly journey | Rosamond Johnson Ensemble | Vocal ensemble, with orchestra | |
| Brunswick | XE35171 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | A spiritual fantasy | Rosamond Johnson Ensemble | Vocal ensemble, with orchestra | |
| Victor | MRC-1615 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Dumbells in derbies | RKO Radio Pictures | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Brunswick | E35167 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | You said it | Red Nichols Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | E35168 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Sweet and hot | Red Nichols Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | E35169 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Keep a song in your soul | Red Nichols Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Victor | MRC-DR-4-31 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Pathé audio review. Vol. 3, no. 4 | Pathé Pictures | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MRC-DV-1-31 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | The Zuyder Zee | Pathé Pictures | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Gramophone | 2D28 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Manon : Fantasia | Marek Weber Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | |
| Gramophone | 2D29 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Manon : Fantasia | Marek Weber Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | |
| Brunswick | E35803 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Dancing ‘round the apple tree | Long Tom ; Rex Cole Mountaineers | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | E35804 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Yazoo, Mississippi | Long Tom ; Rex Cole Mountaineers | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | E35805 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | The waltz of the hills | Long Tom ; Rex Cole Mountaineers | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | E35806 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | There’s a blue sky out yonder | Long Tom ; Rex Cole Mountaineers | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | C7215 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Low down dog blues | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7216 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Nineteen thirty-one blues | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7218 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Love crying blues | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7219 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Papa’s got your water on | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7220 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Big House blues | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7221 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | New how long, how long blues no. 2 | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7222 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | What more can I do? | Leroy Carr | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | |
| Brunswick | C7223 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Papa wants to knock a jug | Leroy Carr | Male vocal duet, with guitar and piano | |
| Victor | BRC-64659 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Gato | Juan Pulido | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | |
| Victor | BRC-64660 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | El tartamudo | Juan Pulido | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | |
| Columbia | W151221 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Brother, it's too late now | Hezekiah Jenkins ; L. McClain | Vocal duet, with guitar | |
| Columbia | W151222 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | I don't want nobody that don't want me | Hezekiah Jenkins ; L. McClain | Vocal duet, with guitar | |
| Columbia | W151219 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | The panic is on | Hezekiah Jenkins | Male vocal solo, with guitar | |
| Columbia | W151220 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Shout you cats | Hezekiah Jenkins | Male vocal solo, with guitar | |
| Victor | MVE-UNI-6[a] | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Universal newspaper newsreel. Vol. 3, no. 6 | Graham McNamee | Motion picture soundtrack : Announcing, with dubbed recordings | |
| Victor | MVE-67833 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Fair warning | Fox Film Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MVE-67834 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Fair warning | Fox Film Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MVE-67835 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Fair warning | Fox Film Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MVE-67836 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | Fair warning | Fox Film Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MVE-67830 | 16-in. | 1/15/1931 | Fair warning | Fox Film Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | MVE-67831 | 16-in. | 1/15/1931 | Fair warning | Fox Film Corporation | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Columbia (U.K.) | WLX1456 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Werther, Werther, qui m'aurait dit la place... | Élie Cohen ; Ninon Vallin | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | |
| Columbia (U.K.) | WLX1457 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Werther! Werther! Rien! Ah! Du sang! | Élie Cohen ; Georges Thill ; Ninon Vallin | Vocal duet (soprano and tenor), with orchestra | |
| Columbia (U.K.) | WLX1458 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Prière de Charlotte: Ah! Mon courage m'abandonne | Élie Cohen ; Georges Thill ; Ninon Vallin | Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra | |
| Gennett | 17447 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Medley of old time waltzes | Ed M. Lewis ; Asa Martin | Guitar, autoharp, and harmonica | |
| Gennett | 17449 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Medley of old time melodies | Ed M. Lewis ; Asa Martin | Guitar and autoharp | |
| Brunswick | LA916 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | To make a long story short (I love you) | Earl Burtnett ; Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo; without vocal (takes G[1] and G[2]) | |
| Brunswick | LA917 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | I surrender, dear | Earl Burtnett ; Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo; without vocal (take G) | |
| Brunswick | LA918 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Night of romance | Earl Burtnett ; Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Victor | BVE-67401 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Rockin' in rhythm | Duke Ellington Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | |
| Victor | MVE-67839 | 16-in. | 1/16/1931 | The criminal code : Trailer | Columbia Pictures | Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer | |
| Victor | BVE-67798 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | The river and me | Chick Bullock ; Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Victor | BVE-67799 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Keep a song in your soul | Chick Bullock ; Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Victor | BVE-67800 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Sam and Delilah | Chick Bullock ; Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | |
| Brunswick | XC7217 | 12-in. | 1/16/1931 | Assuring success with trees, shrubs, fruits and flowers, program D, pt. 2 | C. E. Cary | Radio transcription disc | |
| Brunswick | E35172-E35173 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Two hearts in waltz time | Bob Haring Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo; without vocal (take G) | |
| Columbia | W151225 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | I'm one of God's children (Who hasn't got wings) | Blue Grass Boys ; Lee Morse | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | |
| Columbia | W151226 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Blue again | Blue Grass Boys ; Lee Morse | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | |
| Gennett | 17443 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Mind your own business | Asa Martin | Male vocal solo and yodeling, with guitar | |
| Gennett | 17444 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | A socker in the kisser | Asa Martin | Male vocal solo, with guitar, autoharp, and harmonica | |
| Gennett | 17445 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | My cabin home among the hills | Asa Martin | Male vocal solo, with guitar and autoharp | |
| Gennett | 17446 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | My lost lover on the sea | Asa Martin | Male vocal solo, with guitar and autoharp | |
| Gennett | 17448 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Gentle Annie | Asa Martin | Male vocal solo, with guitar, autoharp, and harmonica | |
| Columbia | [W]151223 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | I'll lock you in my arms | Annette Hanshaw | Female vocal solo | |
| Columbia | [W]151224 | 10-in. | 1/16/1931 | Crying to the moon | Annette Hanshaw | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Recordings made on Friday, January 16, 1931," accessed November 25, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/date/browse?date=1931-01-16.
Recordings made on Friday, January 16, 1931. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 25, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/date/browse?date=1931-01-16.
Recordings made on Friday, January 16, 1931." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 November 2024.
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