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Jim Burris

real name James Henry Burris

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

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517

Credits

150

Albums

7

Decades active

32

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

517 releases · 150 albums · 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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