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[Brown wax home recording of singing, whistling, yodeling, and a mock dinner prayer].

Cylinder13226

Place of Publication:
[Place of production unknown],
Issued Date:
1912
Genres:
Personal recordings
Notes:

Brown wax cylinder.

The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 328-13, Originally acquired: Jim Ross, c. 2010).

Performer not given.

Place of recording likely the United States.

Description:

Man sings: "I came from Cincinnati up in Iceland by the south, and as you can see quite plainly, my voice is in my mouth, I tell you yes, there is red, yes, there is red, in this college life there is red, sweet red"; then a brief yodel song; mock dinner prayer; man sings and whistles "The Whistling Coon"; then whistles another tune and sings yodel song "Sleep Baby Sleep" and "If It Wasn't For the Irish and the Jews."

Physical Description:
1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 148.3 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
Format:
Audio musical
Collection(s):
Cylinder Audio Archive
Library Location:
Department of Special Research Collections
ARK:
ark:/48907/f36q1wp0
Catalog System Number:
990041104010203776
Copyright Holder:
University of California (System). Regents
Restrictions:

MP3 files of the restored cylinders available for download are copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California. They are licensed for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License. Acknowledgments for reuse of the transfers should read "University of California, Santa Barbara Library." The original wav files (either unedited or restored) can be provided upon request for commercial or non-commercial use such as CD reissues, film/tv synchronization, use on websites or in exhibits. The University of California makes no claims or warranties as to the copyright status of the original recordings and charges a use fee for the use of the transfers. Please contact the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Research Collections for information on licensing cylinder transfers.