Today in History - 1923

In a vacant building on Nassau Street in Atlanta, Georgia, Fiddlin' John Carson cut two sides, "Little Old Log Cabin" and "The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's going to Crow." Ralph Peer of Okeh Records recorded the session and announced them "pluperful awful" but agreed to press five hundred on a blank label for personal use.

With Fiddlin' John hawking them from the stage of the next Fiddler's convention, all 500 sold out quickly. Peer immediately rushed into a major pressing on the Okeh label and invited Carson to New York to record twelve more sides.