Desperately wanted: Big Bob Dougherty Acetate

In January 2016 I unfortunately missed the ebay auction for this 45rpm acetate :

bbd_whalin

bbd_ready_ready_baby

 

As some of you might know I am interested in every little snippet of Leavenworth KS R’nB saxophonist Big Bob Dougherty, as i am still working on a biography/discography of Dougherty. Now I am desperately searching for the person who won the auction. If you are that person, or know who bought this record, it would be very nice if you contact me or ask the one person bought it to contact me. I would be ready to pay a nice sum for a digital copy. I also offer to buy that record for a lot more money  than the winner of the auction had to pay.

Or I can offer digital files of another very nice Big Bob Dougherty acetate, this one probably from 1944, way earlier than Big Bob Dougherty’s first commercial recording in exchange for digital copies of this acetate. Whatever it need to get this music to me …

There was a little snippet of music with this auction and from what I could hear, this acetate must be from around 1958 or 1959. What is called “Whalin'” here is the same tune Dougherty recorded in 1954 for his own label Cosmopolitan as “Whale” and in 1958 or 1959 for Golden Crest as “Wail”.

The flip, “Ready Ready Baby” is a nice jumpy tune with Big bob singing. Dougherty never recorded this one again.

So, who has this record?

And: Are there even more Big Bob Dougherty acetates around?

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