# ABOUT MORTON
It all started with ONE record in 2020. The weight of it. That mysterious label. And then the needle hit the
groove and a voice from another CENTURY filled the room. Game over!! Total obsession from day one!!
Morton's collection: 2000+ hand-picked shellac records spanning world folk music, jazz, dance music, acoustic
era highlights. Every disc a highlight!!
Specialties: Italian, Hawaiian, Eastern European, Yiddish, Roma, Caribbean, and much more!!
# COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
[ULTRA RARE]
A Jiddische Mamme / Awrumale Melamed
Marion Koegel & Werner Seelig-Bass
c.1930 | Lukraphon
Lukraphon from pre-war Berlin — a tiny label specializing in Jewish and Yiddish music. Most pressings DESTROYED
during the Holocaust. Marion Koegel's voice could make STONE CRY!! Both artists managed to flee Berlin. A voice
from a vanishing world, pressed into shellac before the darkness fell.
[CARIBBEAN GENESIS]
Germaine / Native Trinidad Kalenda
Lionel Belasco / Jules Sims
c.1914 | Victor
Belasco: the godfather of Trinidad calypso recording. 12 solos for Victor in ONE DAY!! 278+ recordings total.
The "Scott Joplin of Calypso"!!
[MYSTERY RECORD]
Orientalische Motive
Oscar Zehngut (as Josef Solinski)
c.1907 | Favorite
One of the EARLIEST KLEZMER RECORDINGS in existence. Jewish violinist from Lemberg under a pseudonym nobody can
explain!!
[GUITAR NERDS]
Too Tight / Stonewall Street Blues
Blind Blake
c.1929 | Paramount
BLIND BLAKE on PARAMOUNT. The King of Ragtime Guitar. ~80 tracks of fingerpicking wizardry. Surviving copies =
gold dust!!
[RUSSIAN ROMANCE]
Yamshtchik, Nie Goni Loshadei
N. Nazaroff
1928 | Columbia
A PROFESSIONAL WHISTLER. Whistles entire passages of troika classics. Crystal clear, hanging in the air like
snow!! MAGNIFICENT!!
[ROMANTIC DEPRESSION CUTS]
Paper Moon / Night Owl
Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike)
1933 | Brunswick
THE voice of Jiminy Cricket!! Caused a nationwide ukulele craze in the 1920s. A gorgeous Great Depression-era
standard on one shellac!!
[KLEZMER VAULT]
Bolgarskiy Zhok / Moldavanskoe Ange
Belf's Roumanian Orchestra
c.1912 | Syrena
Nobody knows who Belf was. Recorded in Warsaw 1911-1914. The ensemble never recorded again after WWI. A vanished
world pressed into shellac!!