Paramount Records: the Rise, Fall, and Resurrection

Our second episode brings us to a small town in the Northern part of the U.S. where we, surprisingly, find a deep Blues history. We follow Paramount Records through the peak of success, recording landmark artists that changed Western popular music forever, but this music, at several times, was almost lost forever. We follow the thin thread of events and recent efforts that have gone into preserving this important musical history.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:50 Muddy Waters
0:51 B.B King
0:54 Blind Lemon Jefferson
0:56 Charley Patton
0:57 Skip James
1:09 Blues
1:12 Africa
1:50 Skip James
2:03 Big Bill Broonzy
2:07 Bill Big Broonzy: The Man That Brought The Blues to Britain
2:14 Paramount Records
3:44 Jazz
3:55 Johann Sebastian Bach
3:55 Ludwig Van Beethoven
3:55 Johannes Brahms
3:59 Franz Joseph Haydn
3:59 Wenzel Müller
3:59 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4:06 Vaudevillan Performers
4:08 Dixieland Jazz
4:10 Creole Music
4:14 Military Bands
4:49 Al Jolson
6:11 Pop music
6:19 Wisconsin Chair Company
6:28 Phonographs
7:21 Alex Van Der Tuuk
7:31 Paramount’s Rise and Fall
7:55 Classical Music (Western)
8:05 Vaudeville
8:10 Country Music
8:37 Mamie Smith
8:38 Crazy Blues
9:09 Race Records
10:10 J. Mayo “Ink” Williams
10:31 Blues Music
11:15 Bessie Smith
11:17 Jelly Roll Morton
12:31 Alberta Hunter
12:32 Monette Moore
12:53 Blind Lemon Jefferson
13:48 Charley Patton
13:52 Dockery Farms
13:57 Robert Johnson
14:29 Pony Blues
14:31 Banty Rooster Blues
15:10 Swanee River
15:21 Juke Joints
15:46 Delta Blues
16:59 Metal Masters
19:25 Grafton House of Blues
19:34 Angie Mack Riley
19:56 Blues
19:56 Jazz
19:56 Country Music
22:43 PBS History Detective: Paramount Records Episode
22:59 Charley Patton
22:59 Skip James
22:59 Blind Lemon Jefferson
23:27 Louis Armstrong
23:27 Ma Rainey
23:27 Son House
24:28 Delta Blues
24:49 Elvis Presley
25:22 Paramount’s Rise and Fall
25:29 Agram Blues
25:41 Jack White Box Set
25:54 Dean Blackwood
25:55 Revenant Records
27:10 Paramount Box Set #1
27:28 Grammy Award
27:57 The World Music Foundation
28:05 World Music
29:10 Folklore Music
29:18 Zydeco
29:22 Cajun Music
29:36 Rolling Stones
29:41 Love in Vain
30:10 Elmore James
30:01 Howlin’ Wolf
30:04 Muddy Waters
30:28 The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters
30:40 Columbia Records
30:42 Okeh Records
30:43 Paramount Records