<p>Huddie Leadbelly. side 1: Good Morning Blues; side 2: Leaving Blues (Hot Jazz Club of America HC 98).<br>78 rpm. Both tracks were recorded in 1940 and initially released on Bluebird B-8791 in 1941.</p>
<p>Hot Jazz Club of America [HJCA] was a bootleg record label, founded around 1946-1947. The label was dedicated to the unauthorized reissue of jazz recordings of the 1920s. Brooklyn record store owner Sam Meltzer is allegedly to have produced the recordings. These recordings first appeared in the record collector’s magazine <i>The Record Changer</i> publicizing the re-issue of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band recordings from 1923.</p>
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Discography of American Historical Recordings
Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
