Antedating of "Poker Face"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> refusing to accept as authority

I've heard that phonograph records don't provide acceptable dating.
Because of the difficulty of finding a copy of the 78 and verifying
its dated label? Thanks to the Web, that's not necessarily a major
problem, anymore, seem like to me.

Just idly wondering. I don't have a stash of notebooks full of
heretofore-unknown Negroisms culled from old blues, jazz, and R&B 78's
or such like waiting to be transcribed and e-mailed to Jesse.
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-Wilson
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