Copy of Advertisement.
An Okeh advertisement featuring perhaps the first hillbilly music recording (see the box labelled "6 Best Sellers"): Fiddlin’ John Carson’s “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” / “The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster’s Going to Crow” (Okeh 4890). During the recording session on June 14, 1923, Ralph Peer pronounced Carson’s singing “plu perfect awful,” but his reservations vanished as the record began to sell well. The ad appeared in both The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution on August 3, 1923, the first ads to announce the record.

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