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Lost sounds, blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891--1922

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Lost sounds

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Recorded 1891-1922

blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891--1922

Mamma's black baby boy / Chas. Hunn (Unique Quartette) (2:26) -- Keep movin' (Standard Quartette) (2:51) -- Who broke the lock (Unique Quartette) (2:49) -- Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope (Oriole Quartette) (2:32) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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)

Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891--1922