Charles Sargent and John Marvin - Thousand Mile Blues 1924

1924 recording of "Thousand Mile Blues", a novelty blues duet by Charles Sargent (on what sound like a hot fountain pen?) and John Marvin (on the banjuke).
A particularly scratchy record on the OKeh label (yep, it is loud!).

As a backdrop I used the classic signature model Johnny Marvin Tenor Ukulele, as manufactured by the Harmony Company in around 1928. Not only does it look great, it's a good instrument too.

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Music

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• wininboy
• johnny
• marvin
• charles
• sargent
• thousand
• mile
• blues
• novelty
• ukulele
• clarinet

[superbadbrad]

I like this song a lot!!!

[wininboy]

@superbadbrad Me too! The more I listen to it, the better I like it.

[pfefferrucken]

That sounds very good.

[VictrolaJazz]

I'm thrilled to see a recording of this! I still have my mothers (1902-1997) sheet music that she used to play it from and which I tried to learn about 25 years ago!

[BeareTube]

Johnny Marvin was Mr Ukulele. Thanks for uploading wininboy!

[UkesterBrown]

Very nice- you even have a great uke of his-

[norimak]

That's goigeous, nice combo clarinet and uke! Thanks for posting these :)