The songwriters Allie Mae Brock & Minnie Pearl Brock, two sisters from Chattanooga, Tennessee had records on Gennett and Paramount as early as... 1929.
The Brock Sisters were among the first duets who opened the field of country singing for women, according to the Jemf Quarterly [Spring 1978]
Milly and Dolly Good, as the Girls of the Golden West, had played a big part inTheir "Broadway Blues" from 1929 can be heard on YouTube here
breaking open the field of country singing for women, and particularly for women duets.
Such duets, drawing on the appeal of blended voices and building up repertoire from the
innovative kinds of music being done by Cliff Carlisle and the Delmore Brothers, now
took center stage. The route to the break from traditional style had been shown in
the 1920s by popular duets like the Boswell Sisters. A taste of the Brock Sisters shows
uptown phrasing and the instincts of jazz-pop:
Oh, a Knoxville girl'd make a
hound dog lose his trail (2)
And a Chattanooga girl'd make a
tadpole hug a whale,
When you take those blues,
those Broadway blues.
But what about the Kornettes I hear you asking? I have no idea. Perhaps some good people from Chattanooga would have some information.
Recorded at Spann Records, 2642a South Broad St., Chattanooga. Spann Records was formed there by two juke ops Fred Cofer and Alfred Samples.
My father Ricky Roy singer/songwriter wrote "Screamin Mimi/AlwaysTogether " and recorded it at 2642A S. Broad St.in 1959 on SPANN Records. It's on utube.
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