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A 78 rpm record of Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues on a turntable Gramophantom MATRIX W140789 Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues CHARLIE POOLE 78 RPM · ELECTRICAL RECORDING · 1925

On the platter

Record
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues
Played by
Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers
Recorded
July 27, 1925
Song
Traditional
Tempo
About 136 BPM
Tuning
16 cents flat of A440

Transfer from the UCSB Library's Discography of American Historical Recordings.

A haunted record shop for producers. Every US record published in 1925 is now in the public domain. Gramophantom restores those 78s and splits each one into voice, band and instrument tracks you can drop straight into a beat.

In the US they're free to sample, with no clearance and no royalties, and every record shows the evidence that it's free.

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