- Playlist Creator: Library of Congress
- Date Playlist Created: 05/04/2011
- Gathered here are fourteen selections that comprise a National Jukebox Sampler, representing the diversity of repertoire to be found in this repository. Recorded between 1901 and 1912, these performances cover a broad range of genres, styles and categories, including unaccompanied jubilee singing, political and comic spoken word, vaudeville, ragtime, art song, and grand opera.
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- Temptation rag (02:31)
- Band
- Arthur Pryor's Band
- 1910-06-07
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- Little David, play on yo' harp (02:51)
- Male vocal quartet
- Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
- 1909-12-08
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- I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls (03:16)
- Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra
- Elizabeth Wheeler
- 1909-07-15
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- That slippery slide trombone (02:31)
- Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
- American Quartet
- 1912-04-22
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- Selection from I pagliacci (02:57)
- Band, with trombone solo
- Sousa's Band
- 1901-04-04
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- Dreamy days (02:26)
- Male vocal solo, with orchestra
- Reed Miller
- 1911-06-14
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- If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name (02:50)
- Male vocal solo, with orchestra
- Billy Murray
- 1911-11-24
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- The farmer and the hogs (02:48)
- Monologue
- Edwin Whitney
- 1909-06-15
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- Pagliacci : Prologue (03:21)
- Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra
- Emilio de Gogorza
- 1916-04-19
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- Irish humor (03:12)
- Political address
- William Howard Taft
- 1908-08-05
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- Southern cross (03:02)
- Cornet solo, with orchestra
- Herbert L. Clarke
- 1912-05-18
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- Banjo song (02:47)
- Recitation
- J. A. Myers
- 1909-12-09
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- Movin' man, don't take my baby grand! (03:05)
- Male vocal solo, with orchestra
- Al Jolson
- 1912-04-17
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- Ragtime cowboy Joe (02:34)
- Male vocal solo, with orchestra
- Bob Roberts
- 1912-04-23
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The National Jukebox is a project of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. The goal of the Jukebox is to present to the widest audience possible early commercial sound recordings, offering a broad range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
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