[Promotional Palm Card] Authentic Bahamian Calypso: Blind Blake and the Royal Victoria Hotel Calypsos

  • Oakland, CA (?): s.i., 1953
By [Calypso Music; Caribbean] Blind Blake [Blake Alphonso Higgs]; The Percentie Brothers; George Symonette
Oakland, CA (?): s.i., 1953. Very Good. Oakland, CA?: s.i., ca. 1953. Photo-illustrated broadsheet palm card (22.5x8.5cm) promoting three records by Bahamian calypso and goombay performer Blind Blake (1915-1986), adorned with a halftone photograph of Blake performing. Contemporary rubber-stamp of the Yerba Buena Music Shop in Oakland, California on recto, mild toning and a couple tiny nicks; Very Good.

Includes track lists and prices to three Blake albums as well as those of fellow Calypso performers The Percentie Brothers and George Symonette. Tracks listed include Blake's work "Run, Come, See, Jerusalem" concerning the 1929 Bahama hurricane, and the murder ballad "Jones! Oh Jones!" Blind Blake material uncommon in retail.

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