• 2013-12-02. H. C. Speir bio H. C. Speir interview (introduction) H. C. Speir interview (part 1) H. C. Speir interview (part 2) H. C. Speir interview (part...
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  • the pairtie.' Speir may refer to: Dona Speir (born 1964), American model H. C. Speir (1895-1972), American record store owner Rupert Speir (1910-1998),...
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  • Robert Johnson (category Articles with hCards)
    Mississippi, around 1936, Johnson sought out H. C. Speir, who ran a general store and also acted as a talent scout. Speir put Johnson in touch with Ernie Oertle...
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    Charley Patton (category Articles with hCards)
    it was a center of musical innovation. Listening to interviews with H. C. Speir, who owned a furniture store in Jackson in the 1920s and was responsible...
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    historic recording session by blues artist Robert Johnson. Talent scout H. C. Speir had arranged the session with Brunswick Records who set up a temporary...
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  • Pony Blues (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    song as "Stone Pony Blues" in 1934. With the help of record store owner H. C. Speir, Patton obtained his first recording session, for Paramount Records,...
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  • Cross Road Blues (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    October 1936, Johnson auditioned for the talent scout H. C. Speir in Jackson, Mississippi. Speir recommended Johnson to Ernie Oertle, then a representative...
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  • Gayle Dean Wardlow (category Articles with hCards)
    interviewed Ishman Bracey, Charlie Patton's widow, and blues talent broker H. C. Speir, and a few years later, uncovered Robert Johnson's death certificate...
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    Old-time music (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    Hall, guitar; and Harold Hall, banjo and voice), which was recorded by H. C. Speir for the Victor company in 1929. A California old-time music scene arose...
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  • The Complete Recordings (Robert Johnson album) (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    influence on their music. Prior to his death in 1938, through the help of H. C. Speir Johnson recorded 29 songs for the American Record Company (ARC). His...
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  • Skip James (category Articles with hCards)
    auditioned for the record shop owner and talent scout H. C. Speir in Jackson, Mississippi. Speir placed blues performers with various record labels, including...
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  • Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band (category Articles with hCards)
    Clarence on guitar and Harold on banjo. They played from Wichita, Kansas. H. C. Speir, a music promoter from Jackson, Mississippi, heard them playing at the...
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  • The Mississippi Moaner (category Articles with hCards)
    southeast of Crystal Springs, when he was discovered by talent scout H. C. Speir. Although local residents could not recall Nettles when queried in the...
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  • performed out of Wichita, Kansas, during the 1920s, and who were recorded by H. C. Speir of Victor Records in 1929. Bob Dunn was a pioneer steel guitarist born...
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    Grenada Blues Grenada Guitar Slim Shellmound Gulfport Boogie Gulfport H. C. Speir Jackson Harlem Inn Winstonville Harold "Hardface" Clanton Tunica Henry...
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  • Blind Joe Reynolds (category Articles with hCards)
    talent scout H. C. Speir and is known to have entered the studio at least twice, recording four songs on each occasion. In November 1929, Speir took Reynolds...
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    Robert Palmer 2002 Jim O'Neal 2003 Ralph Bass 2004 J. Mayo Williams 2005 H. C. Speir 2006 Bihari brothers Bobby Robinson Jerry Wexler 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Art...
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    it sent Charley Patton —"sent up" by Jackson, Mississippi, storeowner H. C. Speir —to the studio of Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, where on June...
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  • were recommended to him by talent agents in the southern States such as H. C. Speir. Laibly reportedly had little regard for the qualities of the music he...
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  • Jim Jackson (musician) (category Articles with hCards)
    traditional tunes, and became a popular attraction. In 1927 the talent scout H. C. Speir obtained for him a recording contract with Vocalion Records. On October...
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  • the Mississippi Delta where Wolf had worked. There in the late 1920s, H. C. Speir, an enterprising talent scout, auditions the Dockery sharecroppers and...
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    Ishmon Bracey (category Articles with hCards)
    events before relocating to Jackson in the late 1910s. Talent scout H. C. Speir approached Bracey while he was performing on Mill Street in 1927 with...
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  • McMurry - Jackson, MS Peavey Electronics/Hartley Peavey - Meridian, MS H. C. Speir - Jackson, MS Johnny Vincent (John Imbragulio) - Laurel, MS Benjamin...
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  • Traveler", which won the Francis Boott prize, given out by Harvard University. W. C. Handy and Harry Pace start Black Swan, the first black-owned record label...
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  • William Harris (musician) (category Articles with hCards)
    was one of the earliest "discoveries" made by the white businessman H. C. Speir, who ran a music and mercantile store on Farish Street, in a black neighborhood...
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  • Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    "Where Was Eve Sleeping?" "I Know My Time Ain't Long" "Watch and Pray" By H. C. Speir: "Paramount test 1-4/19/30 headlines" "Paramount test 2-4/12/30 headlines"...
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  • Blind Roosevelt Graves (category Articles with hCards)
    broker H. C. Speir, who arranged for them to record in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, according to some sources at the train station, although Speir later told...
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  • C. H.; Peaker, M.; Wilde, C. J. (2012). Intercellular Signalling in the Mammary Gland. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461519737. Speirs,...
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  • Jawbreakers (duo) (category Articles with hCards)
    Will Adams J. C. Davis 2006 "Pose" Justin Timberlake Snoop Dogg FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake Will Adams Calvin Broadus Caleb Speir 2006 "Okay"...
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    Simpson H. Norman Schwarzkopf Ben Schwartzwalder Sidney Shachnow Charles Bradford Smith Frederick W. Smith Oliver Prince Smith Ronald Speirs Michael G...
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