"Hard Times Blues" (W.C. Handy) played by "New Orleans Blue Nine"

Hard Times Blues
(W.C. Handy)
Played by
New Orleans Blue Nine
Globe 7018
(78 rpm record)

This one is hard to find in the discographies. Johnson & Shirley don’t mention it. Brian Rust sort-of does in his Jazz discography. He lists it as follows:

“…HARLEM HARMONY KINGS
Probably a black band: 2 t / tb / as / vn / p /bj / bb / d. New York, c. April, 1921.
A-104-1 Hard Times Blues
Pm 12003…NOTE: Grey Gull and Radiex as NEW ORLEANS BLUE NINE…”

This was transcribed from a copy on the Globe label. I no longer have this record. I transcribed it then sold it about 20 or so years ago. That’s why I don’t have the original label in this video. The Paramount label lists a different composer and the singular version of the title (i.e., "Hard Time Blues").

I added some photos of old New Orleans, but this band may very well have come from Harlem. So who knows? This is a rare one, I’ve never heard it anywhere else on the internet or YT. Please correct me in the comments if I’m wrong.

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