Plays The Blues

Styrene manufacture, with visible edge seam and applied labels Original 1953 large bold RLP and catalog number text used by the company on labels from it's inception 1/1953 throughout 1953. Company address on jacket back is 125 LaSalle Street New York 27 N. Y.. This was the address of "The Record Changer" magazine owned, edited and published by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews, 1948 thru February 1954. In January 1953, the magazine announced the first Riverside releases, RLP 1001, 1002, 1003, and RLP 2501. Pressing rings are 14/72mm. Louis Armstrong Plays The Blues accompanying great blues singers with members of Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. Original Paramount Records recordings; Ma Rainey recorded in late 1924 and 1925 released on Para 12238 and Para 12252; Trixie Smith recorded on masters 2064 and 2063, Para 12262; the Grant & Wilson releases are Para 12317, master 2286 and Para 12337, masters 2282 and 2284.