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The Thoroughbreds were basically Fiddlin Doc Roberts with Dick Parman and Ted Chestnut in April 13 and 14. Roberts was sick his neighbor Dennis Taylor who booked recording artists for Gennett Records in Indiana taking so much of the royalties, and complained to Wiggins, head of Gennett's recording division. Wiggins told him Gennett didnt mind if he escaped Taylor by making records under another name. So Roberts, Parman, and Chestnut went to Chicago and recorded 4 songs as the KY Thoroughbreds and two songs as the "Quadrillers" in April 13-14 for Paramount. The truth was Gennett was also selling almost every oldtime record it made by Roberts and anyone else to other labels who issued the records under different names, often without Roberts and other artists getting a cent. Eventually, Wiggins forced Taylor and Roberts to make up and make more records, but Roberts left Gennett and Taylor in 1931. How this worked out with Taylor and Roberts owning farms that adjoined in Kentucky would be interesting to know,
