Speckled Red
Rufus George Perryman (October 23, 1892 – January 2, 1973), known as Speckled Red, was an American blues and boogie-woogie piano player and singer noted for his recordings of "The Dirty Dozens", exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African-American folklore. |
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 28 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-030838 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Welfare blues | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030839 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Down on the levee | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030840 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Do the Georgia | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030841 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Early in the mornin' | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030842 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Take it easy | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030843 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Try me one more time | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030844 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | Louise Baltimore blues | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030845 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | What makes you treat me mean? | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-030846 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | St. Louis stomp | Speckled Red Trio | Instrumental trio | composer | |
Victor | BS-030847 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | You got to fix it | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with harmonica, guitar, mandolin, and piano | vocalist, composer | |
OKeh | W403749 | 10-in. | 2/7/1930 | The dirty dozen | Lonnie Johnson ; Clarence Williams | Male vocal duet, with piano | composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5075 | 10-in. | 1/2/1930 | The dirty dozen | Scrapper Blackwell ; Leroy Carr | Male vocal duet, with guitar and piano | composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5584½ | 10-in. | 4/8/1930 | The dirty dozen no. 2 | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5585½ | 10-in. | 4/8/1930 | We got to get that thing fixed | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5588 | 10-in. | 4/8/1930 | Speckled Red’s blues | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5589 | 10-in. | 4/8/1930 | The dirty dozen no. 3 | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5590 | 10-in. | 4/8/1930 | The right string—but the wrong yo yo | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5591 | 10-in. | 4/8/1930 | Lonesome mind blues | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | C5894 | 10-in. | 7/1/1930 | New dirty dozen | Memphis Minnie | Female vocal solo, with 2 guitars | composer | |
Brunswick | M183 | 10-in. | 9/22/1929 | Shake your can | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer | |
Brunswick | M184 | 10-in. | 9/22/1929 | House dance blues | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer | |
Brunswick | M187 | 10-in. | Sept. 1929 | The dirty dozen | Speckled Red | Male vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, instrumentalist, piano, composer, lyricist | |
Brunswick | M188 | 10-in. | Sept. 1929 | Wilkins Street stomp | Speckled Red | Piano solo | vocalist, composer | |
Brunswick | M203 | 10-in. | 9/24/1929 | Jim Jackson’s jamboree | Jim Jackson | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble and talking | instrumentalist, piano | |
Brunswick | M204 | 10-in. | 9/24/1929 | Jim Jackson’s jamboree | Georgia Tom ; Jim Jackson ; Speckled Red ; Tampa Red | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble and talking | instrumentalist, piano |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Speckled Red," accessed November 5, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/105568.
Speckled Red. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 5, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/105568.
"Speckled Red." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Speckled Red, 1892-1973 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87134725
Wikidata: Speckled Red - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1364266
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/7579644
MusicBrainz: Speckled Red - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0b862b2a-957c-4461-9daf-a4426a5f65f6
ISNI: 0000 0000 9140 7391 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000091407391
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