High Speed Harris
Today I went through a batch of old “Jet” magazines from the collection of Otto Flückiger. Here’s a nice photo of singer Wynonie Harris from the september 4, 1958 issue, when his days of glory were long over.
To go with it, I have some music for you from Wynonie’s younger days:
This is Wynonie Harris on a rare Bullet 78 pm from my collection playing “Dig this Boogie”, recorded 1946 in Nashville. Featured on the piano is none other than Herman “Sonny” Blount, later known as extraterrestrial big band leader Sun Ra! The drummer is most probably Wynonie himself. Enjoy!
To find out more about this session, go to:
January 16, 2012 at 10:39 pm
wonderful label! could you post a nioce scan of it? and play the other side?
I-)
January 17, 2012 at 8:50 am
Maybe I will put the flip side up one day. But if you are looking for nice scans of the two Bullet 78rpms, go to http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/sunra.html
January 17, 2012 at 2:11 pm
thanks for the pointer to the online discography and the scans! i am glad that it is back – it seemed to have gone away for a while, some months back…