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Title That Dear Old Fiery Cross
Date 1923-1925
Year Released 1923-1925
Artist W.R. Rhinehart
Label 100%, Produced at Gennett studio
Catalog Number K-38
Side A That Dear Old Fiery Cross
That Dear Old Fiery Cross

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Description

A collection item not featuring Louis Armstrong, but presented as background.  These KKK records were being produced during the same years and out of the same facility that Armstrong joined King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band to the Gennett studio in Richmond, IN.

The piece is a ten-inch shellac disc bearing a cream-colored circular label with a decorative chain border, issued on the 100% label.

The record documents a vocal performance by W. R. Rhinehart of the song "That Dear Old Fiery Cross," composed by Rhinehart and Hewitt, with piano accompaniment by Hattie Fletcher Buckles, and was sold out of Muncie, Indiana.

Location Richmond, IN
Rehomed Rehomed to the Louis Armstrong Center at the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Corona, Queens.