Annette Hanshaw - Am I Blue-1929

Annette Hanshaw sings Am I Blue from the from the motion picture On With The Show which featured Ethel Waters, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown and Arthur Lake. The film was the first sound motion picture filmed in color although only black and white copies survive. The film had been adapted from the musical The Broadway Melody. Annette recorded her version May 31, 1929 in New York on the Harmony, Diva, Puritone and Velvetone labels.

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[19XWyomingGrizFan]

I know about the Track appearing on the Diva Label (2940-G) and the Velvet Tone Label (1940-V); as well as on the Harmony Label (940-H) under the name 'Gay Ellis.' But I don't know anything about a puritone Label. Do you mean Melotone? Flip side beng "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home."

[preservationhall01]

Puritone was a Pathe label. Annette's husband originally worked for Pathe in the 1920s. I think Puritone was used to re-release previously recorded works from the old master recordings. I think (not sure) that Columbia bought Pathe. The Diva~Velvet Tone~Harmony labels were cheap Columbia labels. The NY Recording Labs of Arthur Fields also had a Puretone label amongst its 16 labels including Paramount, Banner & Grey Gull. Thanks for your comment!

[19XWyomingGrizFan]

O.K. So Puritone isn't the same as Puretone that came out of Bridgeport, Conn 1923-25,owned by the Bridgeport Die and Machine Co. pressed in red shellac, then. Ownerships seem to me to be rather confusing what with what I've heard that Pathé, started out in Paris in 1894. Bought by the American Record Co.; ARC a merger of Regal, Cameo and Banner Labels about 1928. From 1920 onwards Pathé Actuelle did 78 rpm until the English Columbia bought it out in Dec 1928; the US holdings bought by the ARC?

[preservationhall01]

Something like that.

[Teri Wells]

I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT POLITICS . CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYWAY BUT I HAD A BALL LISTENING TO THIS. THANK YOU WHOEVER PUT IT UP OF ON OR DOWN . SIGNED DUMB COVENT EDUCATED GIRL

[preservationhall01]

Well youll have more fun in life not worrying about eveything in the world for sure. Thanks for your comment!!

[Kelsey Thomas]

I wish that this kind of music was still sold in stores, not all that other crap that everyone listens to.

[bigcity233]

YOU SAID IT! Our culture today is such trash.

[Stuart Goldbarg]

People who believe the myth of the good old days never lived in them. Thugs used to leaflet towns advertising eyes blackened for 50c, legs broke for $2, and killing $10. Herman Mudgett and  Earl Nelson murdered people across the US and Canada. Carl Panzram murdered at least 40 people on 2 continents, and Albert Fish ate children and wrote the parents about the dining experience. That said, almost all modern music is trash.

[Michael Norton]

I graduated from college in 1963. The class of 1964 was a little different, but the big change was with the class of 1965 (which, by the way, includes my dear wife!).

[Michael Norton]

True -- Edwardian sensibilities were quite upset with the goings-on of the '20s and 30s. But the Edwardian crowd shocked Victorians, too. Not for their activities, for there was nothing new going on, really, but for their lack of discretion.