Louis (though they later claimed to hail from the west Texas town of Muleshoe). Sisters Mildred and Dorothy Goad, born Apand December 11, 1915, respectively, were born in southern Illinois and reared in East St. The Girls of the Golden West were top names in radio game of the Great Depression-era, when America got bit by the Western bug. That’s not to say, however, that the appeal of the label outweighs the musical content of the record. There are a total of 386 issues assigned to the label according to the DAHR, including popular, jazz, blues, and hillbilly music, but not all of them have been confirmed to have any existing copies-eight of them are explicitly noted as “not issued.” What is known about them is that they are exceedingly difficult to find. Another leading hypothesis suggests that they were made for sale at gigs by the artists appearing on the label, a known practice in the 78 era. Electradisks were produced for Woolworth’s stores, so perhaps they were made for sale at some store that folded because of the Depression.
Timely Tunes-Victor’s previous foray into the world of budget records-supposedly lasted only three, but they seem to turn up a whole lot more often! No one seems to really know for certain exactly why they were made at all. Probably the obscurest of any of Victor’s Depression-era offshoot labels, Sunrise was produced by the RCA Victor Company in conjunction with Bluebird and Electradisk for a period of nine months, from August of 1933 up to May of ’34. Girls of the Golden West.The Girls of the Golden West, Dolly and Millie Good, pictured on an advertisement for XER, Villa Acuña, Mexico, circa 1932-’33. Ryan McKinny, Paul Appleby and Elliot Madore in Girls of the Golden Westis a far cry from the relative topicalities of Richard Nixon, the hijacking of the Achille Lauro or even the testing of the first atomic bomb, with themes of patriotism, the American Dream, integration, racism and the thorny question of what constitutes being an American placed stage front and centre, I doubt you’ll see a more chilling reminder of the simmering forces that can lead to an explosion like Charlottesville anytime soon. In fact, though the historically refracted
Receiving the San Francisco Opera Medal onstage following the well-received premiere performance, Adams took a swing at the divisive immigration policies of the Trump Administration his only comfort, he maintained, was living in California. Who’d have thought an opera about the Californian Gold Rush could feel quite so contemporary? Even its composer, John Adams, admitted he didn’t see that coming when he started work on his latest magnum opus during the early days of Donald Trump’s tilt at the White House.
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