The Holiday spirit has us feeling like spreading the love here at Third Man Records… Spreading the love in the form of extra Paramount goodies! We are offering an Exclusive Holiday Paramount Bundle, which includes a few coveted extras for those whose wonder extends even beyond the Cabinet-of-Wonder!
Beyond The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1, the first bundle extra comes in the form of Third Man's first 78 RPM record, TMR237 "Battle Royale," a duel of sermons between Sister Ernia Mae Cunningham and Reverend H. C. Gatewood, D.D.I.M.R.A. Packaged in vintage, of-the-era card stock sleeves and achieving that proper dull luster that a record in the 1920's would have had, this 78 leaves us unable to decide which fiery "sermon with singing" tips the scale to win the battle, but we look forward to hearing your opinion.
We are also pleased to include Swan Keepsakes from the New York Public Library Paramount Records event held in November, hand-letterpressed by Bryce McCloud at Isle of Printing in Nashville (also responsible for the gorgeous white birch LP folio within the Cabinet-of-Wonder), and a Paramount T-Shirt of your choice (out of the 4 available options).
The first 20 bundles ordered will arrive with a very special extra addition: a Paramount Records Shadowbox. This laser cut standing card is a non-distributed promotional item for the Paramount stem, and will look fantastic in anyone's parlor or record room.
This bundle is available now only while supplies last…
For those of you who haven't yet tumbled into the Paramount rabbit hole, there's some great information coming from Time Magazine and from David Fricke's 5 star review in Mojo Magazine, both available in print now. You can read them here.
Wow, just checked shipping and it said mine was just delivered. Now I want to go home early haha
That sucks, I love it. I wonder know though if they will do something like this next year. Do you take the chance and wait?
I missed this bundle by about 2 hours. :(
excuse me…testing, 1,2,3
I love this set, that is for sure
I am officially obsessed with Ma Rainey. I’ve never been a fan of female singers as a general rule, up till recently I could pretty much count on one hand the number I could stand to listen to, much less enjoy. Ma, Ethel, Elnora, and Ida have made me almost run out of fingers.
Just was about to get this but now sold out or unavailable. Hope it is available again with the batle royal 78 as not worth it otherwise with the high cost of postage to United Kingdom.
“Some give me a nickel, some give me a dime…” Driving around Baltimore today, every homeless person I passed made me think of this song. They’re all some mama’s baby child.
Oh, and today’s favorite tune is Ma Rainey’s Jelly Bean Blues. The horn laughing and crying, the banjo, Ma’s helluva voice… Oh my.
Probably shipped in paper in case the records shifted in transit. Better to receive it with a torn paper sleeve than have those beautiful parchment ones damaged. I don’t think I could rank the lps, several of my favorite songs are scattered between the six. If there’d been a Q&A at the NYPL event, I really wanted to ask how they were able to decide which tracks to put on the lps and if there was any plan as to how they were divided.