Vinyl records

Pigmeat Markham vinyl records

2 albums with 30 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Dewey Markham. African-American entertainer, born April 18, 1904 in Durham, North Carolina, died December 13, 1981 in Bronx, New York. Markham got his nickname from a song in his act called “Sweet Papa Pigmeat”. He started entertaining in 1917 at the age of thirteen when he danced on the southern “race” circuit with Bessie Smith and later appeared on burlesque bills with such comedy legends as Milton Berle, Red Buttons, and Eddie Cantor. In the 1950’s, while playing such night clubs and theatres as the Regal in Chicago, The Howard in Washington, and of course the Apollo, Markham became one of Black America’s most popular entertainers.