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Jim Burris

real name James Henry Burris

Jim Burris is credited on 150 albums across 517 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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150

Albums

517

Pressings

7

Decades active

33

In collections

Biography

American songwriter, composer and performer.
Born 1874, Jackson, Tennessee, USA. Died June 3, 1923, Oxen Hill, Maryland, USA.
Lyricist of "Ballin' The Jack" with music by Chris Smith.
Burris was an actor in the 1920 silent film "The Symbol of the Unconquered", a race film produced by Oscar Micheaux. Burris played Bill Stanton, a white horse thief who collaborates with other villains in the movie to drive a black family off their land.

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Credited work

150 albums · 517 pressings · active 1950–2017

  • Performance · 519
  • Other credits · 3

Studios: Silverlake Studios · Fine Recording Studios · WOR Studios · Parisian Room, New Orleans

Discography

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