Slim Mays
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1936
Roles Represented in DAHR: guitar, vocalist, composer, speaker
Notes: Also known as "Slim Jim" and Debs Mays, his given name. Sometimes credited without surname as "Slim." Slim Mays's composer credits are often under his given name, Debs Mays.
Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-0501 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Spooning 'neath a Western sky | Slim Mays ; Rex Mitchell ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal trio | vocalist | |
Victor | BS-0503 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | If you don't believe I'm leavin' | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal duet | vocalist | |
Victor | BS-0505 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | My dad | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo | vocalist, composer | |
Victor | BS-0506 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | The Blue Ridge home I love | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal duet | vocalist | |
Victor | BS-0507 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Sweetheart, let's grow old together | Willie (Red) Herman | Harmonica solo, with guitar and string bass | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0508 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | (Trouble ends) Out where the blue begins | Willie (Red) Herman | Harmonica solo, with guitar and string bass | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0509 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Shine on, harvest moon | Willie (Red) Newman | Harmonica solo, with guitar and string bass | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0510 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | St. Louis blues | Willie (Red) Newman | Harmonica solo, with guitar and string bass | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0511 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Slim's talkin' blues | Slim Mays | Dialogue, with guitar | composer, instrumentalist, guitar, speaker | |
Victor | BS-0512 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Slim's talkin' blues | Slim Mays | Dialogue, with guitar | instrumentalist, guitar, speaker, composer | |
Victor | BS-0513 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Soap box blues | Slim Jim | Male vocal solo, with guitar | composer, vocalist, instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0514 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Rabbit blues | Slim Jim | Male vocal solo, with guitar | instrumentalist, guitar, composer, vocalist | |
Victor | BS-0517 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Spanish waltz | Los Fronterizos | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0518 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | La polka de Juanito | Los Fronterizos | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0519 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | La polka de Jill | Los Fronterizos | Instrumental ensemble | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0520 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Helena | Earl Carr ; Slim Mays | Fiddle (violin) and guitar duet | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0521 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Leña acarreada por el agua | Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Fiddle (violin) and guitar duet | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0522 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Cabra | Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental trio | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0523 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Oklahoma medley | Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental trio | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0524 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Frontier breakdown | Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental trio | instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0526 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Wabash blues | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal duet | vocalist | |
Victor | BS-0527 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Wang wang blues | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal duet | vocalist | |
Victor | BS-0528 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | Has anybody seen my gal | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo and talk | vocalist, instrumentalist, guitar | |
Victor | BS-0529 | 10-in. | 9/9/1936 | If I had my way | Slim Mays ; Oklahoma Cowboys ; Jack Pierce | Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal duet | vocalist, instrumentalist, guitar |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Mays, Slim," accessed January 22, 2021, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/206481.
Mays, Slim. (2021). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved January 22, 2021, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/206481.
"Mays, Slim." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2021. Web. 22 January 2021.
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