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Lost Sounds

Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922

Label: Archeophone Records

Catalog Number: ARCH1005

Running Time: 2:32:22

Recording Date: Jul 1891 — 1922

Performers: Unique Quartette; Standard Quartette; Oriole Quartette; Cousins and DeMoss; Sam Cousins; Ed DeMoss; Dinwiddie Colored Quartet; Polk Miller's Old South Quartette; Randall Graves, tenor; Fisk University Jubilee Quartet; John Wesley Work II, tenor; James Andrew Myers, tenor; Alfred Garfield King, bass; Noah Walker Ryder, bass; Apollo Jubilee Quartet; Right Quintette; James W. Loguen, tenor; Clarence Tisdale, tenor; James M. Thomas, baritone; James E. Lightfoot, bass; Leon Adger, piano; Four Harmony Kings; Ivan Browning, tenor; William A. Hann, bass; Charley Case, speaker; George W. Johnson; Louis Vasnier, speaker; Williams and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels Spencer; Len Spencer, speaker; Billy Williams, speaker; Williams and Walker; Bert Williams; George Walker; George W. Johnson, speaker; Bert Williams, baritone; Jack Johnson, speaker; Opal Cooper, tenor; Noble Sissle, tenor; Booker T. Washington, speaker; Thomas Craig, bass; Carroll Clark, baritone; Daisy Tapley, contralto; Roland Hayes, tenor; Harry T. Burleigh, baritone; Edward H.S. Boatner, baritone; Florence Cole-Talbert, soprano; William Leonard King, piano; R. Nathaniel Dett, piano; Clarence Cameron White, violin; Edward Sterling Wright, speaker; Europe's Society Orchestra; Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra; Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra; Seth Jones, baritone; Wilbur Sweatman, clarinet; Emerson Trio; Memphis Pickaninny Band; Eubie Blake Trio; Eubie Blake, piano; Blake's Jazzone Orchestra; Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band; Lieutenant Jim Europe's 369th Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band; Dabney's Band; Handy's Memphis Blues Band

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Mamma's Black Baby Boy	2:26	Chas. Hunn
Performers: Unique Quartette Recording Date: 1893
Keep Movin'	2:51
Performers: Standard Quartette Recording Date: 1894
Who Broke the Lock	2:49
Performers: Standard Quartette Recording Date: Circa 1895
Brother Michael, Won't You Hand Down That Rope	2:31
Performers: Oriole Quartette Recording Date: Circa 1896
Poor Mourner	2:00
Performers: Cousins and DeMoss; Sam Cousins; Ed DeMoss Recording Date: 1898
Who Broke the Lock	2:14
Performers: Cousins and DeMoss; Sam Cousins; Ed DeMoss Recording Date: 1899
Down on the Old Camp Ground	2:31
Performers: Dinwiddie Colored Quartet Recording Date: Oct 1902
Jerusalem Mornin'	2:04
Performers: Polk Miller's Old South Quartette; Randall Graves, tenor Recording Date: Nov 1909
Little David Play on Yo' Harp / Shout All Over God's Heaven	2:46
Performers: Fisk University Jubilee Quartet; John Wesley Work II, tenor; James Andrew Myers, tenor; Alfred Garfield King, bass; Noah Walker Ryder, bass Recording Date: Dec 1909
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	2:42
Performers: Apollo Jubilee Quartet Recording Date: Feb 1912
Shout All Over God's Heaven	2:20
Performers: Apollo Jubilee Quartet Recording Date: Feb 1912
Good News	2:23	Tuskegee Institute Singers
Recording Date: Aug 1914
The Rain Song	3:19	Alex Rogers; Will Marion Cook
Performers: Right Quintette; James W. Loguen, tenor; Clarence Tisdale, tenor; James M. Thomas, baritone; James E. Lightfoot, bass; Leon Adger, piano Recording Date: Dec 1915
Goodnight Angeline	3:12	Noble Sissle; Eubie Blake
Performers: Four Harmony Kings; Ivan Browning, tenor; William A. Hann, bass Recording Date: Circa Jul 1921
Experiences in the Show Business	3:08
Performers: Charley Case, speaker Recording Date: Mar 1909
The Whistling Coon	2:47	Sam Devere
Performers: George W. Johnson Recording Date: Jul 1891
Adam and Eve and de Winter Apple	1:06
Performers: Louis Vasnier, speaker, "Brudder Rasmus" Recording Date: Circa 1893
The Laughing Song	2:31
Performers: George W. Johnson Recording Date: Circa 1894 — 1898
Minstrel First Part, featuring "The Laughing Song"	3:07
Performers: Williams and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels Spencer; Len Spencer, speaker; Billy Williams, speaker; George W. Johnson Recording Date: Circa 1894
Listen to the Mocking Bird	1:42	Septimus Winner; Richard Milburn
Performers: George W. Johnson Recording Date: Nov 1896
The Laughing Coon	2:22
Performers: George W. Johnson Recording Date: Circa 1898
The Whistling Girl	2:31
Performers: George W. Johnson Recording Date: 1898
My Little Zulu Babe	2:47
Performers: Williams and Walker; Bert Williams; George Walker Recording Date: Nov 1901
Carving the Duck	2:41
Performers: George W. Johnson Recording Date: 1903
The Merry Mail Man	3:01
Performers: Len Spencer, speaker; George W. Johnson, speaker Recording Date: Circa 1906
Nobody	2:53	Alex Rogers; Bert Williams
Performers: Bert Williams, baritone Recording Date: May 1906
My Own Story of the Big Fight (Part I)	3:43
Performers: Jack Johnson, speaker Recording Date: Jul 1910
Beans, Beans, Beans	3:09	Chris Smith; Elmer Bowman
Performers: Opal Cooper, tenor Recording Date: Circa Apr 1917 — May 1917
Great Camp Meetin' Day	2:39	Gene Mikell; Noble Sissle
Performers: Noble Sissle, tenor Recording Date: 1920
Atlanta Exposition Speech	3:29
Performers: Booker T. Washington, speaker Recording Date: Dec 1908
Old Black Joe	1:58	Stephen Foster
Performers: Thomas Craig, bass Recording Date: 1898
Old Dog Tray	2:49	Stephen Foster
Performers: Carroll Clark, baritone Recording Date: Circa Mar 1910
I Surrender All	2:39	Judson W. Van DeVenter; Winfield S. Weeden
Performers: Daisy Tapley, contralto; Carroll Clark, baritone Recording Date: Dec 1910
Swing Along	3:56	Afro-American Folk Song Singers; Will Marion Cook
Recording Date: Mar 1914
Rain Song	3:05	Alex Rogers; Afro-American Folk Song Singers; Will Marion Cook
Recording Date: Mar 1914
Exhortation	3:22	Alex Rogers; Will Marion Cook
Performers: Right Quintette; James W. Loguen, tenor; Clarence Tisdale, tenor; James M. Thomas, baritone; James E. Lightfoot, bass; Leon Adger, piano Recording Date: Dec 1915
Vesti la Giubba	2:53	Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performers: Roland Hayes, tenor Recording Date: May 1918
Go Down Moses	2:03	Traditional; Harry T. Burleigh, arr.
Performers: Harry T. Burleigh, baritone Recording Date: Circa 1919
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child	2:41	Traditional; Harry T. Burleigh, arr.
Performers: Edward H.S. Boatner, baritone Recording Date: Circa 1919
Villanelle	3:13	Eva Dell'Acqua
Performers: Florence Cole-Talbert, soprano; William Leonard King, piano Recording Date: Circa 1919
Barcarolle	2:45	R. Nathaniel Dett
Performers: R. Nathaniel Dett, piano Recording Date: Circa 1919
Lament	3:35	Clarence Cameron White
Performers: Clarence Cameron White, violin Recording Date: Circa 1919
When de Co'n Pone's Hot / 'Possum	4:16	Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet
Performers: Edward Sterling Wright, speaker Recording Date: Oct 1913
Down Home Rag	3:31	Wilbur Sweatman
Performers: Europe's Society Orchestra Recording Date: Dec 1913
Breigeiro	3:59	Ernesto Nazareth
Performers: Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra Recording Date: May 1914
On the Shore at Le-Lei-Wei	3:46	Henry Kalimar; Herbert Reynolds; Jerome Kern
Performers: Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra; Seth Jones, baritone Recording Date: Aug 1916
Down Home Rag	1:26	Wilbur Sweatman
Performers: Wilbur Sweatman, clarinet; Emerson Trio Recording Date: Circa Dec 1916
Some Jazz Blues	2:49	M.L. Lake
Performers: Memphis Pickaninny Band Recording Date: Circa Jun 1917
Sarah from Sahara	2:54	Hugo Frey
Performers: Eubie Blake Trio; Eubie Blake, piano Recording Date: Circa Aug 1917
The Jazz Dance	3:06	W. Benton Overstreet
Performers: Blake's Jazzone Orchestra Recording Date: Circa Nov 1917
Everybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues But I'm Happy	2:59	Henry Creamer; J. Turner Layton
Performers: Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band; Wilbur Sweatman, clarinet Recording Date: Mar 1918
Darktown Strutter's Ball	2:58	Shelton Brooks
Performers: Lieutenant Jim Europe's 369th Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band Recording Date: Circa Mar 1919
Camp Meeting Blues	2:13	W. T. Carroll
Performers: Dabney's Band Recording Date: Circa Oct 1919
St. Louis Blues	3:12	W.C. Handy
Performers: Handy's Memphis Blues Band Recording Date: 1922