The old record box Introduction
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The following program is distributed by the national educational radio network.
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The old record box.
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This program consists primarily of selections played from so under records of
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Edison chronographs frequently called talking machine.
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These records were issued in a period extending from the late 1890s to
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1929. Your host is a red herring to her room.
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Just a few words of explanation aren't harder. Before we begin to play.
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It is impossible to trace the development of this industry in so short a time.
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But occasional items of interest will be noted. There are two principal types of
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records. Two minute and four minute varieties. In some
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cases the four minute selections will be cut short an order that a greater variety
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may be presented during the limited time available. Most of the items have
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been chosen from earlier recordings falling generally within the
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period from 900 to one thousand twenty. Although the last
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Islanders were made in one thousand twenty nine. Comment will be kept at a
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minimum an order that most of the time can be devoted to the music.
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This area of our cultural life stands in a peculiar position.
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It is entirely passe and quite unknown to the younger generations
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and still too recent to qualify for scholarly research.
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Now how about a patriotic beginning. The good old USA
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sung by Byron Gee Harlan the song was composed by Theodore
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F. Morse in one thousand six. He ran away from a military academy at
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age 14 got a job as a junior clerk in a New York music store
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and had his first song published when he was 15 and at 24
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controlled his own musical publishing business. You are probably more
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familiar with another hit of his Hail hail the going is all here.
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What I have for
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him.
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Are you
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going.
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Now for some pathos for sale a baby is by Charles K.
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Harris who specialized in mother's soldiers and lovers.
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This sentimental amount was written in 103 and was extremely popular
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for some time previously. Mr. Harris while sitting in a barber chair in
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1897 I got the bright idea of changing a song Hero firemen
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to a soldier. Well they struck the popular fancy during the Spanish-American War
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times and registered a hit as a break the news to
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mother hears for sale a baby.
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Her was
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God.
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Now we jump ahead to 1928 to a play by Vincent Yeomans
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which was not much of a success only twenty nine performances but it
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had a song hit rainbow. The story was set in the
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1849 gold rush and romance just bubbled out all over
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before the time of Rosemarie the great singing team of Ada
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Jones and Billy Murray are the vocalists of
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honey
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me her her her
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her her.
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Her.
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I know how.
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Thanks.
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You're all of
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the recordings played on this first program are the black wax Edison two
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minute records the series will be confined to the four inch cylinders
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with selections of differing time duration from a limited number of
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manufacturers. Many novelty items were produced to liven up
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the standard fare of vocal and instrumental selections in addition
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to their real talking numbers and unusual talents were utilized such
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as Joel Belmont displays in his rendition of the
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American flag March.
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You are.
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And to wind up a heterogeneous group. What's wrong with a spirited band
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number. We can't credit the composer but we can at least give the title.
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It's I owe a lot.
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I'm going.
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Thank
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you and this event red herring to end with a few old timers
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old more or less at random from the old record box produced by a radio
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station WABE.
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This is the national educational radio network
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wound.
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