Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922, (electronic resource)

The Resource Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922, (electronic resource)
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Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922, (electronic resource)
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Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922
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  • "Companion CD to the book Lost sounds / by Tim Brooks"--Original container
  • Archeophone Records: 1005 (on original container spine: ARCH 1005)
  • Originally issued as compact discs
  • Principally spirituals, minstrel & vaudeville songs, art music, rags, jazz, and blues performances by Black composers and musicians from the early days of the recording industry
  • Program notes by Tim Brooks and David Giovannoni (58 p. ; ill., facsims., ports.) on insert
  • Recordings originally released as wax cylinders and discs on various labels
Antecedent source
file reproduced from original
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Contents
  • Swing low, sweet chariot (2:42) ; Shout all over God's Heaven (2:20) (Apollo Jubilee Quartette)
  • Good news (Tuskegee Institute Singers) (2:23)
  • The rain song / Alex Rogers ; Will Marion Cook (Right Quintette) (3:19)
  • Goodnight Angeline / Noble Sissle ; Eubie Blake (Four Harmony Kings) (3:12)
  • Experiences in the show business (Charley Case) (3:08)
  • The whistling coon / Sam Devere (George W. Johnson) (2:47)
  • Adam and Eve and de winter apple (Louis Vasnier) (1:06)
  • The laughing song (George W. Johnson) (2:31)
  • Minstrel first part, featuring "The laughing song" (Spencer, Williams, and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels) (3:07)
  • Listen to the mocking bird / Septimus Winner ; Richard Milburn (George W. Johnson) (1:42)
  • Mamma's black baby boy / Chas. Hunn (Unique Quartette) (2:26)
  • The laughing coon (2:22) ; The whistling girl (2:31) (George W. Johnson)
  • My little Zulu babe / W.S. Estren ; James T. Brymn (Williams and Walker) (2:47)
  • Carving the duck (George W. Johnson) (2:41)
  • The merry mail man (Len Spencer-George W. Johnson) (3:01)
  • Abyssinia. Nobody / Alex Rogers ; Bert Williams (Bert Williams) (2:53)
  • My own story of the big fight. Part I (Jack Johnson) (3:43)
  • Beans, beans, beans / Chris Smith ; Elmer Bowman (Opal Cooper) (3:10)
  • Great camp meetin' day / Gene Mikell ; Noble Sissle (Noble Sissle) (2:39)
  • Atlanta Exposition speech (Booker T. Washington) (3:29)
  • Old black Joe / Stephen Foster (Thomas Craig) (1:58)
  • Keep movin' (Standard Quartette) (2:51)
  • Old dog Tray / Stephen Foster (Carroll Clark) (2:49)
  • I surrender all / Judson W. Van DeVenter ; Winfield S. Weeden (Daisy Tapley ; Carroll Clark) (2:40)
  • Swing along / Will Marion Cook (Afro-American Folk Song Singers) (3:56)
  • The rain song / Alex Rogers ; Will Marion Cook (Afro-American Folk Song Singers) (3:06)
  • Exhortation / Alex Rogers ; Will Marion Cook (Right Quintette) (3:22)
  • Pagliacci. Arioso : Vesti la giubba / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (Roland Hayes) (2:53)
  • Go down Moses (Harry T. Burleigh) (2:03)
  • Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Edward H.S. Boatner) (2:41)
  • Villanelle / Eva Dell'Acqua (Florence Cole-Talbert) (3:13)
  • Barcarolle / R. Nathaniel Dett (Dett) (2:46)
  • Who broke the lock (Unique Quartette) (2:49)
  • Lament / Clarence Cameron White (White) (3:36)
  • When de co'n pone's hot ; 'Possum / Paul Laurence Dunbar (Edward Sterling Wright) (4:16)
  • Down home rag / Wilbur C. Sweatman (Europe's Society Orchestra) (3:31)
  • Bregeiro : (Rio Brazilian maxixe) / B.E. Nazareth (Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra) (3:59)
  • On the shore at Le-Lei-Wei / Henry Kalimar ; Herbert Reynolds ; Jerome Kern (Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra) (3:46)
  • Down home rag / Wilbur C. Sweatman (Sweatman) (1:26)
  • Some jazz blues / M.L. Lake (Memphis Pickaninny Band) (2:49)
  • Sarah from Sahara / Hugo Frey (Eubie Blake Trio) (2:54)
  • The jazz dance / W. Benton Overstreet (Blake's Jazzone Orchestra) (3:06)
  • Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues but I'm happy / Henry Creamer ; J. Turner Layton (Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band) (2:59)
  • Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope (Oriole Quartette) (2:32)
  • Darktown strutters' ball / Shelton Brooks (Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band) (2:58)
  • Camp meeting blues / W.T. Carroll (Ford Dabney's Band) (2:13)
  • St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band) (3:12)
  • Poor mourner (2:01) ; Who broke the lock (2:14) (Cousins and DeMoss)
  • Down on the old camp ground (Dinwiddie Colored Quartet) (2:31)
  • Jerusalem mornin' (Polk Miller's Old South Quartette) (2:04)
  • Little David, play on yo' harp : (Shout all over God's heaven) (Fisk University Jubilee Quartet) (2:46)
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1 online resource.
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online
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Record ID
3976402
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(OCoLC)697954592
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