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Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922.

Title
Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922.
Publication
St. Joseph, Ill. : Archeophone Records, ℗2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Brooks, Tim
  • Giovannoni, David
  • Martin, Richard
  • Hennessey, Meagan
  • Johnson, George W., 1846-approximately 1910
  • Brooks, Tim
Description
2 audio discs (154 min., 6 sec.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Genres series ; 5th v
Uniform Title
Genres series ; 5th v.
Alternative Title
Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922
Subjects
Note
  • Companion discs to the book Lost Sounds by Tim Brooks, published by the University of Illinois Press.
  • Compact discs.
  • Originally recorded on acoustic cylinders & records, some as commercial issues & some private; discographical details included in Notes.
  • Program notes by Tim Brooks, David Giovannoni, Richard Martin & Meagan Hennessey, with illustrations & discographical details (60 p.) inserted in container.
Credits (note)
  • Produced by Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey.
Language (note)
  • Vocal selections sung principally in English; track 8, disc 2 sung in Italian.
Contents
  • [Cd. 1] Unique Quartette. Mamma's black baby boy (1893) -- Standard Quartette. Keep movin (1894) -- Unique Quartette. Who broke the lock (ca. 1895) -- Oriole Quartette. Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope (ca. 1895) -- Cousins and DeMoss. Poor mourner (1898) ; Who broke the lock (1898) -- Dinwiddie Colored Quartet. Down on the old camp ground (1902) -- Polk Miller's Old South Quartette. Jerusalem mornin (1909) -- Fisk University Jubilee Quartet. Little David play on your harp ; Shout all over God's heaven (1909) -- Apollo Jubilee Quartette. Swing low sweet chariot ; Shout all over God's heaven (1912) -- Tuskegee Institute Singers. Good news (1914) -- Right Quintette. The rain song (1915) -- Four Harmony Kings. Goodnight Angeline (1921)
  • [Cd. 1, cont.] Charley Case. Experiences in the show business (1909) -- George W. Johnson. The whistling coon (1891) -- Louis Vasnier. Adam and Eve and de winter apple : excerpt (ca. 1893) -- George W. Johnson. The laughing song (ca. 1894-1898) -- Spencer, Williams and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels. Minstrel First Part, featuring The laughing song (ca. 1894) -- George W. Johnson. Listen to the mocking bird (1896) ; The laughing coon (ca. 1898) ; The whistling girl (ca. 1898-1899) -- Williams and Walker. My little Zulu babe (1901) -- George W. Johnson. Carving the duck (1903) -- Len Spencer & George W. Johnson. The merry mail man (1906) -- Bert Williams. Nobody (1906) -- Jack Johnson. My own story of the big fight : part 1 [spoken] (1910) -- Opal Cooper. Beans, beans (1917) -- Noble Sissle. Great camp meetin' day (1920).
  • [Cd. 2] Booker T. Washington. Atlanta Exposition speech (1908) -- Thomas Craig. Old Black Joe (1898) -- Carroll Clark. Old dog Tray (1910) -- Daisy Tapley & Carroll Clark. I surrender all (1910) -- Afro-American Folk Song Singers. Swing along (1914) ; The rain song (1914) -- Right Quintette. Exhortation (1915) -- Roland Hayes. Arioso from "Pagliacci" : Vesti la giubba [/ Mascagni] (1918) -- Harry T. Burleigh. Go down Moses (1919) -- Edward H.S. Boatner. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (1919) -- Florence Cole-Talbert. Villanelle (1919) -- R. Nathaniel Dett [piano]. Barcarolle : [from In the bottoms] (1919) -- Clarence Cameron White. Lament (1919).
  • [Cd. 2, cont.] Edward Sterling White. When de co'n pone's hot ; 'Possum (1913) -- Europe's Society Orchestra. Down home rag (1913) -- Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra. Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian maxixe) (1914) -- Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra. On the shore at Le-Lei-Wei (1916) -- Wilbur C. Sweatman. Down home rag (1916) -- Memphis Pickaninny Band. Some jazz blues (1917) -- Eubie Blake Trio. Sarah from Sahara (1917) -- Blake's Jazzone Orchestra. The jazz dance (1917) -- Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band. Ev'rybody's crazy bout the doggone blues but I'm happy (1918) -- Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighter's" Band. Darktown Strutter's Ball (1919) -- Ford Dabney's Band. Camp meeting blues (1919) -- W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band. St Louis Blues (1922).
Call Number
Sc Audio CD-765
LCCN
  • 2008573544
  • 777215109025
OCLC
63264348
Title
Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922.
Imprint
St. Joseph, Ill. : Archeophone Records, ℗2005.
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audio disc
Series
Genres series ; 5th v
Genres series ; 5th v.
Performer
Various performers.
Credits
Produced by Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey.
Language
Vocal selections sung principally in English; track 8, disc 2 sung in Italian.
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Added Author
Brooks, Tim, writer of accompanying materials.
Giovannoni, David, writer of accompanying materials.
Martin, Richard, producer, writer of accompanying materials.
Hennessey, Meagan, producer, writer of accompanying materials.
Johnson, George W., 1846-approximately 1910, performer.
Brooks, Tim. Lost sounds.
Other Standard Identifier
777215109025
Publisher No.
Arch 1005 Archeophone
Research Call Number
Sc Audio CD-765
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