In 1939, a new record from a shadowy storefront on Detroit's east side starts showing up in juke boxes all over town. It quickly becomes a smash hit, sending men scrambling to cash in, by creating Detroit's first home-grown record company! Here's the untold story of an unlikely pair of tattooed hustlers: an ex-con, and a shell-shocked World War I vet, plus: juke boxes, the mafia, Hamtramck mamas, Wayne County grifters, the first all-female western swing act on records, the first rockabilly trio - all playing roles in sensational music originally pressed on 78 rpm discs that document the dawn of Detroit's recording industry.
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