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    Emcee Tells Contestants to Stay in Arena, Calls Police, Announces that Contests Will Be Coming Up, and Calls Warm-Up for Clowns
    • Contributor: Wolfe, Clifford, Sr. - Fleischhauer, Carl
    • Date: 1983-08-14
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    My Maryland fantasia
    Tannenbaum | With variations for different instruments     Victor 35028. Matrix/Take: C-4422/2.
    • Contributor: Arthur Pryor's Band - Short, Thomas V.
    • Date: 1907-04-19
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    President Wilson Speech given by Homer S. Cummings, temporary chairman, Democratic National Committee. "Republican leaders have been moved by a strange jealousy of the President... Political malice followed the President to the peace table...The President made every sacrifice -- including health -- for the cause of peace."
    • Contributor: Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    Somewhere a voice is calling Columbia A2099. Matrix/Take: 46986/2.
    • Contributor: Allen, Fred - Newton, Eileen - Brown, Fred H. - Tate, Arthur F.
    • Date: 1916-08-29
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    The Battle of Fredericksburg
    The Last fierce charge     Civil War song. Dust jacket notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "Mr. Graham says he added a 'little horror' to this where he'd forgotten the text." George Vinton Graham, vocals and guitar. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in San Jose, California on August 16, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting George Vinton Graham performing Anglo-American songs on October 12, 1938,...
    • Contributor: Graham, George Vinton - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1939
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    Oral history interview of Chamba Ngodrup The interviewee was born into a very poor household. He became a monk in the Sera Monastery when he was very young, and talks about his monastic life. The subject was transmitted to the Stone-Breaking Association under the Tibetan government and describes how he made his living by breaking stones and transporting them and other goods with his brother and his father. The interviewee...
    • Contributor: Goldstein, Melvyn C. - Tibet Oral History and Archive Project
    • Date: 2001
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    Interviews: Oskars Kalpaks Latvian Saturday School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, part 19
    • Contributor: Vidutis, Richard
    • Date: 1982-05-23
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    Pretty Polly sound recording | 1 sound recording | Published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L1 "Anglo-American Ballads" (volume one), 1942. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Hamilton, Ohio. (Venue). Recorded in 1938. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, Alan - Steele, Pete
    • Date: 1942
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    La paloma Columbia 3502. Matrix/Take: 3502/1.
    • Contributor: Wright, Rosa Linde - Yradier, Sebastián
    • Date: 1906-10-31
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    Oral history interview of Ama Drolma The interviewee tells about being born in Kham. From the age of 12- 18, she worked as a servant in a household tending animals. At the age of 18, she fled with several other girls to Lhasa. The subject tells how she married a Chinese construction worker and moved to China with him after fighting broke out in the 1950's and she was in...
    • Contributor: Goldstein, Melvyn C. - Tibet Oral History and Archive Project
    • Date: 2001
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    Kiss me again Victor 19559. Matrix/Take: B-31057/7.
    • Contributor: Wiedoeft, Rudy - Herbert, Victor - Banta, Frank E.
    • Date: 1924-12-17
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    Honey love Columbia A1128. Matrix/Take: 19710/2.
    • Contributor: That Girl" Quartet - Meyer, George W. - Drislane, Jack
    • Date: 1912-01-05
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    Blow Boys, Blow sound recording | 1 cylinder | Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). This song was published on the Library of Congress long playing record, "Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection," in 1978, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Archive of Folk Culture. (Source Note). The date Gordon recorded this is unknown. It may have been between 1930 and 1932. (Date)....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow - Wilkins, A.
    • Date: 1978
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    Come by Here sound recording | 1 sound recording | Recorded in May 1936. (Date). Recorded in Raiford, Florida. (Venue). Forms part of the John A. Lomax Southern States Collection, 1933-1937. (Source). The chorus singing with Ethel Best is unidentified. (Content). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Best, Ethel - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
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    Lua de mel
    Honeymoon     Victor 72802. Matrix/Take: B-22983/2.
    • Contributor: Leal, Faria - Pixinguinha - Shilkret, Nathaniel - Dyson, Flora
    • Date: 1919-08-06
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    Mexe e remexe
    Maxixe     Victor 17607. Matrix/Take: B-14855/2.
    • Contributor: Conrad, Henri - Sarrablo, M. - Conrad's Society Orchestra
    • Date: 1914-06-15
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    Alan Williamson and John Hollander reading their poems in the Montpelier Room, Library of Congress, Dec. 3, 1998 Prosser Gifford introduces the program; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Pinsky introduces the poets. Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Playback copy. Washington, DC. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1998. 1...
    • Contributor: Hollander, John - Williamson, Alan (Alan Bacher) - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1998
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    Not so very far from Zanzibar Columbia A2083. Matrix/Take: 46965/3.
    • Contributor: Olman, Abe - Burr, Henry - Campbell, Albert - Sterling Trio - McCarthy, Joseph - Meyer, John H. - Rose, Ed
    • Date: 1916-08-16
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    Argentine writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson reading from her work In Spanish. Recorded May 23, 1978, University of Ottawa. Recorded for the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape. Production level cataloging. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (Library of Congress) - Levinson, Luisa Mercedes
    • Date: 1978
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    My girl from Dixie Victor 1125. Matrix/Take: [Pre-matrix B-]1125/M-1.
    • Contributor: Adams, Robert J. - Browne, Raymond A. - Leachman, Silas F.
    • Date: 1901-12-04
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    Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes reading from his prose Mr. Fuentes reads selections from a chapter of his novel, Terra Nostra.
    • Contributor: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (Library of Congress) - Fuentes, Carlos
    • Date: 1974
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    Off the record interview with Phyllis McGuire, [1986-1988?]-01-27
    • Contributor: Smith, Joe (1928-) - McGuire, Phyllis
    • Date: 1986-01-27
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    Pre berezi
    Near the tree     Victor 67580. Matrix/Take: B-16880/1.
    • Contributor: King, Edward T. - King's Orchestra - Palamak Quartet - Kanewsky, Meyer
    • Date: 1915-12-10
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    Clarence Dust jacket notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "Sung through a haze due to much gin, but the ghost of a song is there." Dust jacket notes: Poor recording -- noisy motor." Ozzie Waters, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Concord, California on July 11, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Sam "Mike" Blackburn performing Anglo-American songs on...
    • Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Waters, Ozzie
    • Date: 1939
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    Gimpel bainish
    Comic song     Victor 69935. Matrix/Take: B-21127/2.
    • Contributor: Rumshinsky, Joseph - King, Edward T. - King's Orchestra - Jacobs, Jacob - Hoffman, Anna
    • Date: 1917-11-30