Re: Is the December, 1956 recording by The Jokers available publicly?

On Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 11:52:48 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:

On Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 5:37:54 PM UTC-5, Willie wrote:

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The book "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" has a section, written by
Lee Ranaldo, called "I Just Wanna See It" about the acetate disc Bob,
Larry Kegan, and Howie Rutman made in December, 1956 in Hibbing. I was
surprised to not be able to find an online version of this 4-minute
recording. It's not totally clear to me from the section whether the
Tulsa museum has the disc itself. Ranaldo writes, "Finally, after
tugging repeatedly on a few sleeves, I did get to see a images of the
actual disc," and the section has what looks like a photo of it, but has
the caption "Original painting by Duncan Hannah of The Jokers acetate
recorded at Terlinde Music December 24, 1956." Ranaldo then writes, "I
managed to hear it a bunch of times as well, across many weeks." But
it's not clear if the museum has the acetate locked away and gave him
access to it, or if they played a digital version of it for him, or
what.
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Does anyone out there know if there is a publicly available version?

Sure makes me wonder.
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🙂

One thing I omitted from Ranaldo's section is that he says at first
Larry Kegan had the disc, but gave it to Louie Kemp, who kept it in a
safe deposit box for decades, then gave it back to Kegan just before
Larry died. But Ranaldo says nothing about how (or if) it went from
Kegan to the Tulsa museum.. I posted this at Expecting Rain, so maybe
someone there knows more about it.