“I make my songs as I go along”

“New Black Snake Moan”; Lead Belly; Huddie Ledbetter; Melotone (M 13327-B); 1935

PM, November 2, 1941, pp. 48-49

For $100 You Can Your Picture Made
By Man Who Put Horns on K. Hepburn

…George Platt Lynes…

Ralph Steiner

PM, November 2, 1941, pp. 48-49 [$100 in November 1941 had the same buying power as $1,927 in September 2022.]

“Four Day Worry Blues”; Lead Belly; Huddie Ledbetter; Melotone (M 13327-A); 1935

PM, November 3, 1941, p. 11 ( Photos by Martin Harris)

The Many Friends of Leadbelly Stage a Folksong Fest for Him

“De Kalb Blues”; Lead Belly; Musicraft (226-B); 1939

PM, November 3, 1941, p. 18

About Murdered Pete Panto And the Election of a Mayor

By Tom O’Connor

…until they dug up his bones in a vacant field near Lyndhurst, N.J…

…Pete Panto had been murdered by Murder, Inc.

“I’m On My Last Go-Round”; Huddie Leadbelly; Bluebird (B-8981-B); 1940