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• 1 2019-03-12T23:56:20+00:00 December 9, 1948 3 plain published 2019-08-20T16:52:23+00:00 On December 9, 1948, the Los Angeles Sentinel included an advertisement from the House of Records (631 1/2 East 42nd Street) encouraging readers to “order your Xmas records by phone...any record you hear over the radio broadcast we have them!” The advertisement featured a wide range of R&B, blues, jazz, and gospel music by artists. 
  
  Here are some song examples:
  
  Pee Wee Crayton, “Texas Hop-Boogie”
  
  
  Mabel Scott, “Elevator Boogie”
  
  
  Mahalia Jackson, “Move On Up a Little Higher”