Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922

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Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Mamma's Black Baby Boy
Unique Quartette2:29
2Keep Movin'
choir vocals:
William Cottrell, Ed De Moss, R. L. Scott (1890s US vocalist) and H. C. Williams (1890s US vocalist)
Standard Quartette2:54
3Who Broke the Lock
Unique Quartette2:51
4Brother Michael, Won't You Hand Down That Rope
Oriole Quartette2:34
5Poor Mourner
Cousins & DeMoss2:03
6Who Broke the Lock
Cousins & DeMoss2:16
7Down on the Old Camp Ground
bass vocals and choir vocals:
Harry B. Cruder and J. Mantell Thomas
choir vocals and tenor vocals:
J. Clarence Meredith and Sterling Rex
Dinwiddie Colored Quartette2:33
8Jerusalem Mornin'
Polk Miller's Old South Quartet2:07
9Little David/Shout All Over God's Heaven
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet2:49
10Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Apollo Jubilee Quartette2:44
11Shout All Over God's Heaven
Apollo Jubilee Quartette2:22
12Good News
Tuskegee Institute Singers2:26
13The Rain Song
Right Quintette3:21
14Goodnight Angeline
Four Harmony Kings3:15
15Experiences in the Show Business
Charley Case3:10
16The Whistling Coon
George Johnson2:49
17Adam and Eve and De Winter Apple (excerpt)
Louis "Bebe" Vasnier1:09
18The Laughing Song
George Johnson2:34
19Minstrel First Part, featuring ‘The Laughing Song’
Spencer, Williams and Quinn’s Imperial Minstrels3:10
20Listen to the Mocking Bird
George Johnson1:45
21The Laughing Coon
George Johnson2:25
22The Whistling Girl
George Johnson2:33
23My Little Zulu Babe
Williams and Walker2:49
24Carving the Duck
George Johnson2:44
25The Merry Mail Man
Len Spencer & George W. Johnson3:04
26Nobody
lead vocals:
Bert Williams
recording of:
Nobody (in 1906)
lyricist:
Alex Rogers (songwriter, 1876-1930)
composer:
Bert Williams
part of:
Abyssinia (1906 musical)
Bert Williams2:55
27My Own Story of the Big Fight, Part 1
Jack Johnson3:45
28Beans, Beans, Beans
Opal Cooper3:12
29Great Camp Meetin' Day
Noble Sissle2:39
2▼CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Atlanta Exposition Speech
part of:
National Recording Registry (a list of sound recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States”) (number: 1908 recreation, inducted: 2002)
Booker T. Washington3:32
2Old Black Joe
Thomas Craig2:00
3Old Dog Tray
Carroll Clark2:52
4I Surrender All
Daisy Tapley & Carroll Clark2:42
5Swing Along
Afro American Folk Song Singers3:58
6The Rain Song
Afro American Folk Song Singers3:08
7Exhortation
Right Quintette3:24
8Arioso From 'Pagliacci' ('Vesta La Giubba')
tenor vocals:
Roland Hayes (African-american tenor)
recording of:
Pagliacci: Atto I. “Recitar!” … “Vesti la giubba” (Canio)
composer and librettist:
Ruggero Leoncavallo (composer) (in 1892)
part of:
For the First Time (1959 film)
part of:
Pagliacci: Atto I (Pagliacci: Act I)
Roland Hayes2:55
9Go Down Moses
baritone vocals:
Henry Thacker Burleigh (American composer and singer)
recording of:
Go Down Moses (arr. Burleigh)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Henry Thacker Burleigh (American composer and singer)
arrangement of:
Go Down Moses (spiritual)
Henry Thacker Burleigh2:06
10Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
baritone vocals:
Edward H.S. Boatner
Edward H.S. Boatner2:43
11Villanelle
Florence Cole-Talbert3:16
12Barcarolle
piano:
R. Nathaniel Dett (Canadian-American composer) (in 1919)
recording of:
In the Bottoms: IV. Barcarolle – Morning (in 1919)
composer:
R. Nathaniel Dett (Canadian-American composer) (in 1913)
part of:
In the Bottoms
R. Nathaniel Dett2:48
13Lament
violin:
Clarence Cameron White (US composer and violinist)
recording of:
Bandanna Sketches, op. 12: II. Lament
composer:
Clarence Cameron White (US composer and violinist)
part of:
Bandanna Sketches, op. 12
Clarence Cameron White3:38
14When De Co'n Pone's Hot/Possum
Edward Sterling Wright4:19
15Down Home Rag
cello:
Charles Ford (credited as cellist // member of Europe's Society Orchestra)
clarinet:
Edgar Campbell (1920s clarinet player)
cornet:
William "Crickett" Smith (American jazz cornetist/trumpeter)
drums (drum set):
Charles "Buddy" Gilmore (Charles William Gilmore)
piano:
Ford T. Dabney and Leonard Smith (ragtime pianist)
violin:
Tracy Cooper (violinist), Georges Smith (ragtime violinist of the 1920s) and Walter Scott (violinist active in the ragtime era)
conductor:
James Reese Europe (American ragtime bandleader)
recording of:
Down Home Rag (Original 1911 instrumental version) (on 1913-12-29)
composer:
Wilbur Sweatman
publisher:
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.
James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra3:34
16Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian Maxixe)
Joan Sawyer’s Persian Garden Orchestra4:02
17On the Shore at Le-Lei-Wei
Ciro’s Club Coon Orchestra3:48
18Down Home Rag
Wilbur C. Sweatman1:29
19Some Jazz Blues
Memphis Pickaninny Band2:51
20Sarah From Sahara
Eubie Blake Trio2:57
21The Jazz Dance
Blake's Jazzone Orchestra3:09
22Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues but I'm Happy
Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band3:01
23Darktown Strutters' Ball
Lieut. Jim Europe’s 369th Infantry ‘Hell Fighters’ Band3:01
24Camp Meeting Blues
Ford Dabney's Band2:15
25St. Louis Blues
W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band3:12