![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Vera Lynn w. The Casini Club Orchestra-I'm In The Mood For Love - Vera Lynn w. the Casini Club Orchestra
Recorded in October, 1935, most likely somewhere in England. This was Vera Lynn's first commercial recording. Lynn was much loved by the British because of her selfless efforts entertaining the troops during WWII. Indeed she was so popular that, according to myth, a commedian once cracked that the war was was started by her agent. Today, I think she is best known for her stirring performance of "We'll Meet Again" during the final scene of Dr...
Keywords: Music; BritPop; Cabaret; Dance Hall; Easy Listening; Jazz; Oldies; 78rpm; Lounge
Downloads: 4,968
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |
| Leo Soileau & Meus LaFleur-Chere Mom - Leo Soileau & Meus LaFleur
recorded on October 18, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia with Leo Soileau on the fiddle and Meus LaFleur on vocals and accordion. The tune expresses LaFleur's wish to see his mother one more time before he dies, inasmuch as LaFleur's mother had abandoned him when he was an infant. Legend has it that LaFleur was going to use the money he earned at the recording session to find her. However, 9 days later, LaFleur was gunned down at a honky tonk.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Cajun; 78rpm
Downloads: 1,895
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Clarence Ashley-The House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
Recorded on April 14, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia. This ballad was collected by Child as "The Daemon Lover" (Child No. 243), of which there are several variants. Harry Smith noted that the original version in the British Isles had a "supernatural theme" which didn't make it to North America.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 5,953
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Frank Hutchison-The Last Scene Of The Titanic - Frank Hutchison
Recorded on April 29, 1927 in St. Louis. The story of the Titanic made a deep impression on people and was the subject of several ballads and tunes. Thus, versions of tunes about the Titanic were recorded by Ray Acuff, Ernest Stoneman, Blind Willie Johnson ("God Moves On The Water"), William & Versey Smith ("When That Great Ship Went Down"), among others. According to Jeff Place, the story of the Titanic "was particularly important to African-American musicians who were strongly aware of the iro...
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; 78rpm
Downloads: 3,697
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in April 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. Another banjo tune with lyrics that could be from any one of a number of tunes, and which have no apparent logical relationship with each other. This particular tune, which became a folkie staple during the Great Folk Scare, is related to tunes known as "Tempie," "Darling Where Have You Been So Long," "Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long," and "I Don't Like No Railroad Man." In "When We Were Good: The Folk Revival" Robert Cantwell says: "Listen to 'I ...
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 6,562
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Bessie Mae Smith-He Treats Me Like A Dog - Bessie Mae Smith
Recorded circa November 6, 1930. Bob Hall posits that Bessie Mae may have also recorded under the names St. Louis Bessie, Blue Belle, Streamline Mae, and/or Mae Belle Miller. It is possible she may have also been the common-law spouse of bluesman Big Joe Williams. Hall also believes that the piano accompaniment on this track might be Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes. The lyrics of this tune leave little to the imagination regarding the singer's current relationship.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; 78rpm
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| "Jesus" performed by Andy Mosely (vocal & washboard) "Hogman" Maxey (guitar)
Recorded at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana, in the late 1950s
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| Bing CrosbyHit Songs-311-320 - Bing Crosby
from-grimriper2u@yahoo.com
Keywords: BigBand; 78rpm; 1930s; 1940s |
| Arthur Collins - Arthur Collins
Rare Arthur Collins Recordings
Keywords: Arthur Collins |
| Irving Aaronsenand his Commanders
Big Band of the roaring 1920s
Keywords: 1929; roaring 1920's; 78rpm; jazz; big band |
| Over There - Arthur Fields
by George M. Cohan. Columbia A2470 (77510) recorded in 1917. Digital Transfer by F. Reeder
Keywords: WW1; World War 1; 78; acoustic |
| Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas-Pick Poor Robin Clean - Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas
Recorded circa March 1931 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Geeshie Wiley on vocals and lead guitar, Elvie Thomas on second guitar. This bouncy, raggy tune opens with the chilling lines: "I picked poor robin clean, picked poor robin clean Picked his head, picked his feet, would have picked his body but it wasn't fit to eat."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Ragtime; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Invention - Ricardo Senatore
Turin born Ricardo Senatore, chromatic harmonica accompanied by English Concertina. Recorded Edinburgh by Stuart Eydmann.
Keywords: Senatore; harmonica; concertina; Edinburgh |
| Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers-Shootin' Creek - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
Reorded on July 23, 1928. This tune is clearly related, if not the same tune, to the old-timey and bluegrass standard "Cripple Creek." Alan Jabbour has speculated that the "Cripple Creek" title may be related to certain labor disputes in the Cripple Creek area of Colorado during 1903 and 1904. On the other hand, a Cripple Creek flows through Grayson and Carroll Counties in Southwest Virginia. As for the title "Shootin' Creek," there exists a Shooting Creek region in Franklin County also in South...
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Fiddle Tune; 78rpm
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Whispering-Jack-Smith-01
popular singer
Keywords: 1925; roaring 1920's; 78rpm |
| Samantha Bumgarner-The Worried Blues - Samantha Bumgarner
Recorded on April 23, 1924 in New York City. This tune is from her first recording session, which made her the first recorded female country performer. "The Worried Blues" is a variant of "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Ethel Waters-Am I Blue? - Ethel Waters
Recorded on May 14, 1929 in New York City. This tune was recorded for the 1929 film "On With The Show," which featured Miss Waters. The accompaniment on this tune features Tommy Dorsey on trombone and Manny Klein on trumpet. Ethel Waters may have been the most popular African-American performer of the twenties and her career spanned well into the fifties, including an Academy Award nomination and a New York Drama Critics Award.
Keywords: 78rpm; Jazz; Music
Downloads: 6,282
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| Oh! Susanna (1917) - Henry Burr, Peerless Quartet, and Harry C. Browne
Oh! Susanna (1917)
Keywords: Oh Susanna; 1917; Henry Burr; Minstrel; Phonograph; Oldtime; Peerless Quartet; Harry C. Browne
Downloads: 310 |
| Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye - Sammy Kaye
Radio rips from grimriper2u@yahoo.com
Keywords: Big Band; WW2; 1940s; radio; otr
Downloads: 193 |
| Frank Devol Orch, V-Ginny Simms - Frank Devol Orch, V=Ginny Simms
radio rip. grimriper2u@yahoo.com
Keywords: 1940s; 1942; ww2; rare
Downloads: 137 |
| Geeshie Wiley-Last Kind Words - Geeshie Wiley
Recorded circa March 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin. Don Kent has described "Last Kind Words" as "one of the most imginatively constructed guitar arrangments of its era...."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; Delta Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 12,567
Average rating: (8 reviews) |
| Art Hickman's Hotel Saint Francis Orchestra-01-10 - Art Hickman
big band
Keywords: big Band; 1920s; 78rpm; 1910s
Downloads: 88 |
| Mississippi John Hurt-Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
Recorded on December 21, 1928 in New York City. After this recording session Hurt went back home to his home in Northwestern Mississippi and did not record again until over 30 years later. He "disappeared" until Tom Hoskins "re-discovered" him earning $28 a month on a cattle farm in the early sixties. The clue to finding Hurt was in this tune: "Avalon's my home town, always on my mind." After his "re-discovery," Hurt became popular with the folkie crowd in the sixties.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 12,782
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Gigli
Beniamino Gigli - ADESTE FIDELES
Keywords: Gigli
Downloads: 832 |
| Love's Sorrow by Emory B. Randolph (1914) - Emory B. Randolph
Love's Sorrow by Emory B. Randolph (1914)
Keywords: Emory B. Randolph
Downloads: 75 |
| Buying the Christmas Dinner by Yolande Noble and Percy Clifton (1907) - Yolande Noble and Percy Clifton
Buying the Christmas Dinner by Yolande Noble and Percy Clifton (1907)
Keywords: Yolande Noble and Percy Clifton
Downloads: 99 |
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Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Birds In Concert - Unknown
Don't know anything about this recording other than the "performers" are supposed to be a Reed Warbler, a Chiffchaff, a Garden Warbler and a Golden Oriole, and they were spliced together from several sources.
Keywords: Field Recordings; Nature; Found Sounds
Downloads: 1,370
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |
| Boswell- Sisters - Boswell Sisters
mp3 from-grimriper2u@yahoo.com
Keywords: 1930s; 78rpm
Downloads: 952 |
| Casey Listening to the Phonograph by Russell Hunting (1905) - Russell Hunting
Casey Listening to the Phonograph by Russell Hunting (1905)
Keywords: Russell Hunting
Downloads: 97 |
| VRS Acoustics - 6496B - Rosa Ponselle - Digital Transfer by Tim Ecker
Victor 6496B Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981), soprano L'Africana - In grembo a me Mat. C-31710-1 Rec. January 14, 1925
Keywords: Victor; Red Seal; Acoustic; Opera; Ponselle; L'Africana
Downloads: 99 |
| The Memphis Jug Band-Stealin' Stealin' - The Memphis Jug Band
Recorded on September 15, 1928. Will Shade sings the lead with Vol Stevens on guitar, Ben Ramey on kazoo and Jab Jones on jug.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; 78rpm; Hokum
Downloads: 6,530
Average rating: (6 reviews) |
| Cotillion March by George Rosey's Orchestra of New York City (1898) - George Rosey's Orchestra of New York City
Cotillion March by George Rosey's Orchestra of New York City (1898)
Keywords: George Rosey's Orchestra of New York City
Downloads: 99 |
| Clarence Ashley-My Sweet Farm Girl - Clarence Ashley
Recorded on December 1, 1931 in New York City. Ashley plays guitar and sings, with Gwen Foster on guitar and harmonica. The sexual connotations are rather obvious.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; 78rpm
Downloads: 10,982
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka - Leopold Stokowski, conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra. From Victor 78rpm Album DM 574. Recorded November 7, 1937. Digital transfer by F. Reeder
Keywords: classical; 78rpm; orchestra
Downloads: 279 |
| Your mother wants you home, lad by Robert Price - Robert Price
Your mother wants you home, lad by Robert Price
Keywords: Robert Price
Downloads: 71 |
| Gus Henson Orchestra - Gus Henson
scarce big band grimriper2u@yahoo.com
Keywords: big Band; ww2; 1940s; armed forces radio network
Downloads: 191
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Snakes Hips - Fox Trot - Original Memphis Five
Keywords: Early Jazz; Blues; Jazz; 78rpm; Fox Trot; Music; Victor 19052
Downloads: 989
Average rating: (1 review) |
| The Revelers Collection 1925 to 1930 Part 1 - The Revelers
The Parker Savoy Collections - The Revelers, Re-mastered by Parker Audio from the William Savoy collection.
Keywords: The Revelers; 1920; 1920's; jazz; blues
Downloads: 186 |
| VRS Acoustics - 74121 - Alice Nielsen - Digital Transfer by Tim Ecker
Victor 74121 Alice Nielsen (1876-1943), soprano The Last Rose of Summer (Moore) Mat. C-6126-1 Rec. April 21, 1908
Keywords: Victor; Red Seal; Acoustic; Nielsen; Moore
Downloads: 92 |
| High Level Hornpipe
Scottish traditional music played on English concertina by Walter Dale
Downloads: 155
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Who's sorry now? - Fox Trot - Original Memphis Five
Keywords: Early Jazz; Blues; Jazz; 78rpm; Fox Trot; Music; Victor 19052
Downloads: 988
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Kenny Sargent-Girl Of My Dreams - Kenny Sargent
from-grimriper2u@yahoo.com
Keywords: 1930s; 78rpm; rare
Downloads: 219 |
| Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - Transfer and restoration by Bob Varney
Beethoven. Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67. Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In four movements: Allegro con brio, Andante con brio, Allegro, Allegro. Recorded in 1939 in studio 8H at Rockefeller Center in NYC. (Studio 8H is now home to "Saturday Night Live") Transfer and restoration from the original Victor 78 set: M-640.
Keywords: Beethoven; Toscanini; Symphony
Downloads: 309 |
| BennyGoodman251-260of275 - Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden together
Keywords: Benny Goodman; Jack Teagarden
Downloads: 629 |
| Berrick Von Norden - I'm falling in love with someone (Naughty Marietta) 1911 - Berrick Von Norden
The noise is mostly removed however the low original fidelity remains unchanged. Dates given, though usually correct, are a guess only.
Keywords: cylinder; acoustic; popular; 1910s
Downloads: 12 |
| Ich - Liebedich - Ich
German popular
Keywords: German; 1930s; popular; 78rpm
Downloads: 96 |
| Lz Czarina by Sousa's Band (1890's) - Sousa's Band
Lz Czarina by Sousa's Band (1890's)
Keywords: Sousa's Band
Downloads: 85 |
| Joe Belmont-01-10 - Joe Belmont
Whistling
Keywords: edison; cylinder; 78rpm; victor record
Downloads: 99 |
| Mack and Miller - Ching-a Ling's jazz bazaar 1920 - Mack and Miller
Musical conversation; NOT jazz. (Edison Cylinder)
Keywords: Popular; acoustic; 1920s
Downloads: 120 |
