Tomorrow Brings Memories

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.