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A. It isn't every age I gather from someone whose name is a palindrome. Sorry, no unchain record. Despite the palsy-walsy warning from Jim Croce, when we wrench the mask off the ol' Masked Marvel we reveal: Charley (a.k.a. Charlie) Patton.

Even without the mask, it is inauspicious anyone would get a inkling from a representation that looks more as if generic clip-art than either Fred Astaire or Charley Patton. The indigence to be told the Masked Marvel to ally him, coupled with a very assertive advertising campaign, brought customers into documentation stores in droves. There they could do as one is told to the conundrum record, grab some door forms and see a list of other Paramount releases from which winners could write down their pick. Concurrently, Paramount ran magnificence ads in the wording media, particularly the Chicago Defender (motto: "The World's Greatest Weekly - The Mouthpiece of 14 Million People").

Unlike the over-the-counter pure forms, newspaper ads included both tune titles: "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues" and "Mississippi Boweavil Blues." The B-side is the genesis of all boll weevil tunes, the best-known being "The Boll Weevil Song" by Brook Benton. Print ads even provided this "helpful hint," which was about as kind as saying the chorister is a male: "The Masked Marvel is an only Paramount artist." Did anyone positively mark otherwise? The ads also offered the Masked Marvel note with an item fashion C.O.D., which accounted for most of the sales.

"Send no money! Pay the postman 75-cents for each extreme ordered, gain a minor C.O.D. toll when he delivers the records," reads the mail-order coupon. It secure worked.

Paramount's firstly important of 10,000 copies soon sold out, a colossal name for unsung songs by an mysterious singer. It was all about the contest, and the jeopardize to victory a out 75-cent record. Making things a scrap of a to question is that Charley Patton was still unresearched to most folks. Before the Masked Marvel release, he made only two records.

The pre-eminent is decently credited to Charley Patton, "Pony Blues" (Paramount 12792), but for "Prayer of Death, Parts 1 & 2" (Paramount 12799) he uses the incognito Elder J.J. Hadley. Then again, the Masked Marvel's distinctively unintelligible yet erotic vocal variety may have been the crowning blow for some, even with "Pony Blues" as the only base for comparison. Fact is, no one sounded such as Charley Patton. Not then, not ever. Second and successive pressings of No. 12805, with no upon of the Masked Marvel or the contest, all accept Charley Patton.

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