[Brown wax home recording of girls singing Upidee and reciting From my arm-chair].
Cylinder13188
- Performer:
- Merrill, Bertha and Griffith, Margaret
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of production unknown],
- Issued Date:
- 1890
- Genres:
- Personal recordings
- Notes:
Brown wax cylinder.
Bertha Merrill (?); Margaret Griffith (?).
Place of recording likely the United States.
The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 310-01, Originally acquired: The Musical Wonder House Collection, 2011).
Internal announcement: "This song was sung by Miss Bertha [Merrill]. Bertha, you did very well. All the little girls present say so. / From My Arm-Chair, spoken by Margaret [Griffith]."
- Description:
Recitation of "To Each of the Scholars of Bethany," a text reportedly sent out on cards on special occasions by John Wanamaker; "The Pillar of Cloud," a poem better known as set to music in the hymn "Lead Kindly Light"; and a collect for the second Sunday after Trinity beginning "O Lord, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring up in they stedfast fear and love."
- Physical Description:
- 1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 132.7 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
- Format:
- Audio musical
- Collection(s):
- Cylinder Audio Archive
- Library Location:
- Department of Special Research Collections
- Other Versions:
- http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder13188
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f39c6wvm
- Catalog System Number:
- 990041104390203776
- Copyright Holder:
- University of California (System). Regents
- Restrictions:
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