The Complete Hit of the week Recordings

[Durium]

I'd like to inform you about the release of the first 2CD of "The complete Hit of the week Recordings" (1930). This set will contain four 2CDs.

Never heard of it? Well, they sold on newsstands during the Great Depression for 15 cents and quickly became the best-selling records of the early 1930s: the laminated flexible cardboard records known as "Hit of the Week." Featuring the top songs of the day, performed by some of the most noted jazz and dance musicians (often under pseudonyms), Hit of the Week records provided just that--one hit, once a week--to an American public with hardly a dime to spare but hungry for great music by great artists. Today, you'll find a number of these records all curled up and unplayable at garage sales down the street, but for the first time ever, Archeophone is presenting the complete output of the Durium Company, makers of Hit of the Week records, during its short lifespan.

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