In 1923, they bought up the Black Swan label and began using the services of Mayo Williams, a graduate of Brown University who had specialised in football and philosophy, and had become a black Chicago south-side bootlegger with important connections.
Paramount's treasure-laden five-years from '23 to '27 were defined by Williams - whose nickname of "Ink" was derived from his ability to get big names to sign on the dotted line..
He established Ma Rainey as the biggest blues star in the country after Bessie Smith, enjoyed several hits with Ida Cox and Alberta Hunter, found and recorded both Big Bill Broonzy and Blind Blake in Chicago, and managed and produced Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Record sales had been taking a hit from the rise of radio as the new technology replaced the wind-up Victrola as the source of home entertainment. But few places in the countryside were yet wired for electricity. So labels turned their attention to rural markets and rushed to find blues music from the south that would sell to country audiences.
Paramount struck gold with Blind Lemon Jefferson - the first and most successful country blues star of the '20s, whose work would define and refine the down-home sound for all those who followed.
Mayo Williams, having identified a future for himself in the worlds of copyright and publishing, withdrew from the company in 1927.
His departure marked the end of an era alright.
But the biggest shadow yet to come was the one cast by the fat lady hanging just around the next corner.
Here's the Paramount Field Manual for Volume 1
327 MegaBytes
https://mega.co.nz/#!PBgB2ZbB!o9-BaUWJmh4qxEYWp7p2tcp4b1VUemnDarUYwRBKRuM
And here's our third and final tranche of tracks from Volume 1
159 GigaBytes
https://mega.co.nz/#!GZYA1JYB!5_h9cn90ZQDsZD1IOcdqyyfth4i8BWPGzGdOd7ep1y4
12 comments:
And again, a HUGE thanks for this set LAZZ!
A question. When I get all three parts of volume one unzipped and on to my hard drive, what's the recommended way of organizing them? Put them all in a "Volume One" folder, and then do the same for volume two?
That is how I have them organised.
Many thanks Lazz - A remarkable collection.
@kristophermc28 - I've split them into 17 cd's - roughly by year.
@Lazz : Thank you so very much for this 3rd delivery that will complete our Paramount Vol. 1 collection!
@All : All of you who can't get it from Mega, I'll do what I did with parts 1 & 2, I'll separate this 3rd part into as many folders as it takes to re-up them to zippy and post the links here in the comments so you can enjoy this fabulous treasure as the rest of us. So keep an eye on these comments, your special zippy delivery's coming soon.
Thanks for the comments LAZZ and Daver88. I'm still pretty new to the digital files thing(I've always just burned CDs from digital files), so I'm still contemplating how to tackle listening to this set. The hugeness of it is both amazing AND daunting. lol
As promised, here are the files from Lazz's generous post on Zippy, for those who have trouble DL'ing from Mega :
The 19 first parts were posted in Lazz's post of the first "tranche" of this same box set. Again, thank you Lazz!
Part 20:
http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/LjVtqdQR/file.html
Part 21:
http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/nnPUXFGn/file.html
Part 22:
http://www71.zippyshare.com/v/vxovkam0/file.html
Part 23:
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/fZIXKoPY/file.html
Part 24:
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/KSEFhhKu/file.html
Part 25:
http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/veUHhXN9/file.html
Part 26:
http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/pzm0G6sD/file.html
Part 27:
http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/BiHmG5Jz/file.html
Part 28:
http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/XRMUHRsh/file.html
I haven't been able to UL the box set manual to zippy as it's twice the allowed size there, but I'm trying other solutions and I w'll get back to you when I have found one that works.
Here's a link to the PDF of the box set manuel, originally posted by Lazz :
http://ovh.to/jgiuQ6u
In case the link above doesn't work, try this one :
http://ovh.to/Zkmfrb4
...for the manual. Don't wait too long, it'll die in 9 days.
Lurker the diamond.
Can't thank you enough, LAZZ....spectacular.
Lazz, without your posts, I would have stayed in lurking mode again. So if I'm a diamond, then you're the jeweller. ;) Not to mention Kingcake I can never thank enough for the jewelry, and everyone who has shared so much beauty all this time! :D
Nah, I ain't no diamond, this was just a token of my gratitude. ;)
Fantastic. Thank you so much.
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