Playlist for Thomas Edison's Attic - February 20, 2007

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The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey. Tune in for Edison cylinder and disc record rarities, many not heard since "the old man" himself stashed them away, featuring: Tin Pan Alley pop songs, ragtime, vaudeville comedy sketches, flapper dance bands, old-time country tunes, historic classical music, laboratory experiments and other artifacts - all dating from 1888 through 1929.

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February 20, 2007

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Anna Chandler

Artist Track Album Year
Billy Murray  Lazy moon   Gold Moulded cylinder 9204  1906 
Edison Concert Band  The ride of the Valkyries   Gold Moulded cylinder 9338  1906 
Jack Dalton (Jack Kaufman) and the 7 Blue Babies  I don't work for a living   Diamond Disc 19265-B  1929 
Premier Quartette  The skeleton rag   Gold Moulded cylinder 10575  1912 
Helen Gross - vocal, the Kansas City Five  Undertakers blues   Diamond Disc 9813-A  1924 
Len Spencer  The transformation scene - from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"   Gold Moulded cylinder 8879  1904 
Vernon Dalhart - vocal, Carson Robison - guitar  The hanging of Charles Birger   Diamond Disc 18561-A  1928 
Creatore and his band  Marche Lorraine   Diamond Disc 5236-C  1918 
Anna Chandler and chorus  Please don't take my lovin' man away   Amberol cylinder 4M-1086  1912 
Edison Male Quartette  Where the morning glories twine around the door   Gold Moulded cylinder 9312  1906 
Vasa Prihoda - violin, Otto Eisen - piano  Spanish dance (Op. 58, no.1)   Diamond Disc 8286-A  1922 
Osip Borisov  Moskra - Russian song   Brown wax cylinder 12068  c. 1900 
Charleston Seven (Louis Katzman)  Toodles - fox trot   Diamond Disc 9867-B  1925 
George P. Watson - yodeler  Sauerkraut is bully medley   Amberol cylinder 4M-1076  1912 
John J. Kimmble - melodeon  Allerdeen march   Amberol cylinder 4M-1048  1912 

Giuseppe Creatore

Listener comments!

Mon. 3/19/07 8:02pm From: Scrappy Lambert

Testing, testing. One, two, three, four. Testing.

Wed. 4/23/08 10:35pm From: katya oddio

Just played this one again, and what a great pleasure! Thank you for all those great Edison's Attic programs.

Wed. 4/23/08 10:39pm From: katya oddio

Sure wish Grandfather was here to enjoy that "Sauerkraut Is Bully" medley, as the family (like so many Russian immigrant families) used to make their own sauerkraut from vegetables from the family garden. And he did rock the babies to sleep, too!

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