Cool vibrations from 1890 through to the GREAT WORLD WAR

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Let's start with Sousa 1897 Manhattan beach march

 

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THE LAUGHING SONG 1898

 

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Georgia Camptown Meeting 1898

 

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Kind of scratchy, but what can you do, it's over 100 years old.

Enrico Caruso- 1st Ever Recording April 1902​

 

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Kind of scratchy, but what can you do, it's over 100 years old.

Enrico Caruso- 1st Ever Recording April 1902​

Mr. Caruso would have the first million seller record. I was once refered to as "A Shower Song" because the acustics in the bathroom tended to enhance the male voice and many guys would give a redition of (you guessed it). Of course Italians had an advantage. The meaning is basically: SEE YOU LATER. It would become one of VICTOR RECORD's biggest successes.

 

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Why Should I Keep From Whistling? ---- 1893 COLUMBIA CYLINDER

 

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1898 Berliner DISC recording 1898 ---- KISS ME HONEY DO.

 

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The Old Home Down on the Farm --- 1893 ---- Edison Cylinder

 

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Have no fear ------ MY DAD's THE ENGINEER :

 

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EDISON CYLINDER --- ROOSEVELT's ROUGH RIDERS' MARCH --- 1898

 

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Will Denny sings, HOW'd YOU LIKE TO BE THE ICE MAN?

 

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Particularly because of the title, DARKIES' TEMPTATION is rarely if ever heard today. Here is Sousa's band most likely recorded in 1898 not 1897.

 

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John Atlee (nature singer) LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD (likely 1891) Some may recognize this as the theme of the 3 Stooges.

 

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Played on an Edison 1898 HOME PHONOGRAPH is a 1903 cylinder entitled LAUGHING WATER.

 

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1898 brown wax cylinder entitled THE RAGTIME MEDLEY ---- BANJO SOLO:

 

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A very popular singer of the 1890's was GEORGE GASKIN. Here he sings AFTER THE BALL, an 1890's smash hit:

 

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Possibly the earliest ragtime recording from 1899 MY RAGTIME BABY

 

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If you click on the recording and then the motion picture, you will get an idea of how the CAKEWALK was performed.

 

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Bay State Quickstep on Edison Cylinder Bay State quickstep - Alexandria Digital Research Library | Alexandria Digital Research Library Try clicking on the music and then the movie to get an idea of the dance style of the time...

 

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Issler Orchestra ----- 5th REGIMENT MARCH, yellow paraffin cylinder, recorded by William H. Miller at West Orange, N.J. March 1889, Edison #564: https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/photosmultimedia/upload/EDIS-SRP-0155-02.mp3