About a year ago, when I was at a local antique store to buy some 78s; I found 5 8" acetate records meant for home recording (home recordings were often done on records coated in a plastic called acetate in the late 1940s-early 1950s, this method was largely replaced by magnetic tape by the early 1960s). When I found them, the labels were completely blank, which added even more to the mystery. So I bought these records along with some others and took them home.
Most of these recordings seem to be of a man singing various Jazz standards while a pre-existing record of the same song plays in the background; he would sing the lyrics when the actual vocalist wasn't singing, and would scat-sing the melody whenever the real singer sang. One of these records however was a bit different; it had the same person singing an a cappella medley of different Jazz standards.
These records are not in very good shape; the acetate lacquer is coming off of each side of nearly all the records at least a little bit, but this one is by far in the worst shape:
If anyone who is reading this thinks they might know something about these recordings, I would appreciate it if you told it to me.
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Here's one of the tracks to give you an idea of what they sound like
