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Mae West didn't drink or smoke, how 'bout that?!
Eleanor Roosevelt.]]> F Jamaica Plain, MA 09/2008 12/2009 12 76 75 true 5937133 read 1 true 3305836 currently-reading 0 true 3305835 to-read 0 false 4394541 it-s-a-scanner The Given Day: A Novel (Hardcover) by Dennis Lehane]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81174874 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255734804s/2830067.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:34:13 -0800 Tender Is the Night (Paperback) by F. Scott Fitzgerald]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45919781 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170314348s/46164.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:33:11 -0800 Mindfulness in Plain English, Updated and Expanded Edition (Paperback) by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43948073 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170622521s/64369.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:33:11 -0800 more...]]> Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover) by Oliver W. Sacks]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43947729 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256159112s/1297985.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:16:21 -0800 more...]]> Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback) by Studs Terkel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36956062 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533393s/59649.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:12:07 -0800 finished it. loved it. it was very compelling and comfo...more...]]> Status Anxiety (Paperback) by Alain de Botton]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35541165 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167403527s/23425.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:10:31 -0800 finished it. i love him. he also hosts a show on PBS that walk you through his books...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37912621 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172599638s/196166.jpg 1491550 Ms. JJ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261166186p2/1491550.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1491550-ms-jj Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:34:42 -0800
LOST MUSICAL TREASURE
AIRED: Season 4, Episode 11
THE DETECTIVE: Tukufu Zuberi
THE PLACE: Port Washington, Long Island
THE CASE:
A man in Port Washington, Wisconsin who owns a pair of metal "masters" that were used to press shellac records in the 1920s and 30s has a hunch they could represent surviving fragments of a lost moment in American musical history.

The contributor’s great uncle was the master sound engineer for one of the more peculiar recording enterprises in the United States, Paramount Records. He worked for the Wisconsin Chair Company, which, among other things, manufactured phonograph cabinets.

The company’s salesmen were savvy to the broad spectrum of musical talent at the time and established a tandem recording label, ultimately bringing some of the best blues artists from the Mississippi Delta to Wisconsin to record in the factory.

History Detectives travels to Wisconsin and New York to determine the significance of these metal masters and to explore how one company captured the regionally and culturally diverse music played around the nation in the 20s and 30s.

To find more information about Paramount Records' advertisements and records please go to Blues Images.

Or check out Paramounts Home an award-winning,
non-commercial website dedicated to promoting the historical significance of Paramount Records.

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