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Talking Machine World 15 May in (2001) n.p.: Otto Heineman, president of the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co., New York, announced this week that the company is now ready to place on the market the Heineman record, which will be known as the ‘OkeH’ record. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 361: Elvis, with his candy-ass ways, could not kill rock ’n’ roll. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 356: Bang that babania, drink that booze, shovel down those pills; but stay away from that spook called Emmett. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 239: As desultory, as melancholy, as desperately forlorn, and as fatal as a debilitated drunken laugh at the end of a two-week bender. (con. 1929) Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 137: Brown talks of blindsiding his woman, of [...] ‘spendin’ her jack’. (ref. to early 19C) Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 11: The long-tail blue was the swallowtail jacket emblematic of the wardrobe of urban black dandies — zip coons — of the early nineteenth century. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 237: Rolling them bones: dice, the oldest of gambling devices, older than the Bible, found in tombs of ancient Egypt. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 271: Izzy had once worked for Harry Von Tilzer as a lowly boomer, a shill paid to applaud and enthuse wildly at the performance of any song published by the house of Von Tilzer. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 195: Its metaphors were purely American and still of the moment: the Sheik of Alabam’ made those ‘high-brown babies’ howl. in Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 352: A longtime trumpeter and singer, he had taken up the piano actively only after literally losing his chops: he couldn’t play the trumpet with his false teeth. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 265: His long-lived and successful con game of packaging second-rate science fiction as literature of the ages. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 221: Country music became the last bastion of the coon song. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 237: It was the granddaddy of all rigged games, for Yahweh remained free. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 272: Only George Raft among them could boast an authentic tributary of dago red in his hereditary bloodstream. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 296: The song was being performed by the blackface vaudeville team of Baker and Farrell – one of them in proto-Jemima drag – when it was heard by Chris Rutt, a man in search of a name for his new self-rising pancake mix. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 308: Though actual females in blackface were rare, drag acts were a common feature since the early days of minstrelsy. in Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 206: A lot of guys thought Chauncey was a fag name. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 46: It was in the following school year that he flunked for the first time. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 256: In white hobo slang, going back to the late nineteenth century, the words denoted a lesser, inexperienced member of the tramp community, and in time came to imply homosexuality as well: a ‘gay cat’ being the punk-queer companion of an older, veteran hobo, synonymous with ‘gunsel,’ a Yiddish-derived pejorative epithet of like meaning [...] that had been a part of white criminal slang since the early years of the twentieth century. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 256: Papa Charlie Jackson had sung of ‘Gay Cattin’,’ of living high and cool and hip, in 1926. (ref. to 1931) Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 36: Though ‘gong,’ meaning opium pipe, was common hip parlance by 1914, it was not until 1931 that Cab Calloway, the Harlem hierophant of all things hip, celebrated ‘Kickin’ the Gong Around’ in his recording of that name. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 256: In white hobo slang, going back to the late nineteenth century, the words denoted a lesser, inexperienced member of the tramp community, and in time came to imply homosexuality as well: a ‘gay cat’ being the punk-queer companion of an older, veteran hobo, synonymous with ‘gunsel’, a Yiddish-derived pejorative epithet of like meaning [...] that had been a part of white criminal slang since the early years of the twentieth century. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 269: It was these Sicilian words that were commonly used to describe the work-bosses who lured their greenhorn paesani into servitude in New York City in the early years of the twentieth century. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 213: Keith and Albee had similar backgrounds as circus grifters and sideshow spielers. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 346: The forty ‘C’ theaters in the Kemp circuit were known as ‘grind houses’ [...] these theaters presented ‘primarily cowboy movies, often along with the personal appearance of one of its stars’. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 289: I remember rummaging through Faulkner’s house in Oxford, Mississippi, many years ago, before it had been gussied up. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 280: A hayseed-hokum master of ceremonies by the name of Martin Malloy. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 309: Back in the days before New York became the biggest hick town in the world. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 309: The Savannah featured a high-yellow chorus line of ‘14 Beautiful Savannah Peaches’. Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 35: The origin of ‘hip’ whose currency was common enough for it to have appeared in print by 1904, may have derived from the classic age-old pelvic-centered, side-lying opium-smoking position, and may have been used originally as a sign of mutual recognition and reference.