Historic Recordings

On this CD:

1. Abide With Me
Composed by Liddle
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

2. Land of Hope and Glory
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

3. Repentir for voice & piano (or orchestra or organ)
Composed by Charles Gounod
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

4. Elias (Elijah), oratorio, Op. 70 O Rest in the Lord
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

5. The Lost Chord, song for voice & piano
Composed by Arthur Sullivan
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

6. The Holy City, for voice & orchestra (with chorus, ad lib)
Composed by Stephen Adams
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

7. Enchantress
Composed by John L. Hatton
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

8. Annie Laurie, Scottish folk song
Composed by Scottish Traditional
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

9. Old Folks at Home, for voice & piano
Composed by Stephen Foster
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

10. Love's Old Sweet Song
Composed by James Lyman Molloy
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

11. Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40 Ombra Mai Fu
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood

12. Keys of Heaven
Composed by Broadwood
Performed by Dame Clara Butt, Kennerley Rumford

13. Barbara Allen, folk song
Composed by Scottish Traditional
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Hamilton Harty

14. God Save the King
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Dame Clara Butt

Tracks:

The Minstrel Parade (Victor Orchestra)
Mobile Minstrels (Victor Minstrel Company)
Turkey Specialty (Golden and Hughes)
Down on the Mississippi (Levee & Steamboat Scenes) (American Quartet)
Any Rags? (Burt Shepard)
Lily of Laguna (Eugene Stratton)
Old Time Minstrel Scene (Tom Lewis)
The Song Birds are Singing of You (James McCool)
My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon (Manuel Romain)
Hippodrome Minstrel Medley (Manuel Romain)
Don't Be An Old Maid Molly (Harry Ellis)
Ring Down the Curtain, I Can't Sing To-Night (Francklyn Wallace)
"Boxing Scene" (Neil O'Brien and James J. Corbett)
Roll Them Roly Boly Eyes (Al Bernard)
Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider (Eddie Leonard)
Brass Band Ephraham Jones (Al Jolson)
Dear Old Girl (Richard Jose)
Silver Threads Among the Gold (Richard Jose)
Everybody Works But Father (Lew Dockstader)
Uncle Quit Work, Too (Lew Dockstader)
Fiddle, Dee, Dee (Lew Dockstader and Vocal Quartette)
Roll on Silvery Moon (Matt Keefe)
In the Good Old Summer Time (William Redmond)
When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Will Oakland)
"Reminiscing about Minstrel Days" (Will Oakland)
Evalyne (Will Oakland and Billy Murray)
The Belle of the Barber's Ball (Ada Jones and Billy Murray)
Oh, You Coon (Ada Jones and Billy Murray)

Product Description

Professor Allen Debus takes us on a fascinating journey into the late 19th century, when the minstrel show was in its last stages of popularity. He shows us that the final big-name minstrel shows were a different affair than their predecessors of one and two generations before. The difference? Whereas racist caricatures continued to dominate the minstrel First Part, minstrel celebrities such as Richard Jose and Manuel Romain dominated the Olio portion of the minstrel show, singing sentimental ballads and moving the minstrel show toward the personality-based aesthetic that characterized vaudeville. Fortunately for us today, a handful of minstrel veterans committed their voices to wax at the dawn of the recording industryÂ—and one former minstrel, Billy Murray, became the biggest acoustic-era personality and the singer most called upon to sing minstrel songs when original cast members were unavailable.

Customer Reviews:

The basis of the Broadway musical, but an unpleasant reminder of racism in the past.......2007-05-01

Students of the American musical theatre have always been told about the Minstrel shows that set the tone for not only American musical comedies but also Vaudeville and the popular song. The trouble is that authentic recordings have only rarely been available; and one had to be content with recreations by artists who had nothing on which to base the style of their presentations.

Some of that problem has vanished now that Archeophone, that amazing storehouse of antique recordings lovingly reproduced on CDs, has issued "Monarchs of Minstrelsy: Historic Recordings by the Stars of the Minstrel Stage."

The single disc is divided thus. Part One is "A Miniature Minstrel Show in Four Acts," offering 4 selections from 1905 and 1910 of music and routines heard on stage prior to those dates. Part Two deals with "Early and Obscure Minstrel Performers" who left their voices on cylinders and ancient 78-rpm discs from 1903 to 1924: Burt Shepard, Eugene Stratton, Tom Lewis (all three comedians), and James McCool (tenor).

Part Three is a collection of songs that were heard in "Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show," while Part Four does the same for "Cohan and Harris' Minstrels."

Among the familiar songs are "Ida, sweet as apple cider," "In the good old summertime," and "In the light of the silvery moon." Many of the other songs contain a good deal of racist words, many of them used by Black singers themselves, that make the entire history of the Minstrel Show an embarrassment to us today. However, as the notes put it, "These tracks are included here for their historical significance." One must judge for oneself the pros and cons of preserving even the uncomfortable parts of our American past.

The booklet, as is always true with Archeophone, is packed with background information, details of each selection, and wonderful pictures.

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Feeling Blue? Try Some Gershwin!
Classically American

Historic Gershwin Recordings

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue

ASIN: B00000D9VR
Release Date: 1998-10-13

Tracks:

Rhapsody in Blue
An American in Paris
Porgy And Bess: Act 1: Lullaby (Summertime)
Porgy And Bess: Act 1: Summertime & Crap Game, A Woman is a Sometime Thing
Porgy And Bess: Act 1: My Man's Gone Now
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Strike Up The Band
Rhapsody in Blue

Tracks:

An American In Paris
Rhapsody in Blue
Prelude No. 1 In B Flat
Prelude No. 2 In C Sharp Minor
Prelude No. 3 In E Flat
Solo From Porgy And Bess
Suite From Porgy And Bess

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Feeling Blue? Try Some Gershwin!.......2005-05-14

Need to hear something that is virtually GUARANTEED to brighten your day? This 2-disc "Historic Gershwin Recordings" set from BMG does it for me EVERY time I hear it. Here's a rundown:

Track 1. The all-time GREATEST Gershwin recording ever made! This is the ORIGINAL 1924 acoustic recording of Gershwin himself playing "Rhapsody In Blue" with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. This is simply the snappiest, jazziest, most thrilling account EVER recorded. It's abridged and runs just a little over 9 minutes (originally designed to fit two sides of a 78rpm disc). Gershwin didn't have time to orchestrate Rhapsody before its premiere, so this is the very FIRST band arrangement by Ferde Grofe (of later "Grand Canyon Suite" fame). Grofe would re-orchestrate it for Gershwin's 1926 electrical re-make, also abridged, and would do so again in 1942. Nobody does the opening clarinet glissando like Ross Gorman (it was arranged specifically for him), and the whole performance just trots along with incredible commitment and sincerity. If this wonderfully spunky performance doesn't lift your spirits immediately, perhaps you need to see a doctor! By the way, you'll be simply amazed at how GOOD this transfer sounds.

Track 2. Probably the second-greatest Gershwin recording ever made: the ORIGINAL 1929 account of "An American In Paris," conducted by Gershwin's boyhood friend Nathaniel Shilkret. Gershwin himself plays the small parts for piano and celeste! As Charles Levin writes in the notes for another Gershwin set on Pearl CDs, "Apparently Gershwin became such a pest during rehearsals, offering incessant suggestions to Shilkret as to precisely how this or that passage could go, that he was awarded the instrumental parts on condition that he absent himself from the studio until the actual recording!" Shilkret here uses the actual taxi horns that Gershwin brought back from Paris. For me, no other recording comes even close to this one for sheer pizzazz and giddy fun.

Tracks 3-10 feature the original 1935 "Porgy and Bess" excerpts with soprano Helen Jepson & the great American baritone Lawrence Tibbett, and conducted by Alexander Smallens. I find Jepson sympathetic but a little uneven (her "Summertime" doesn't quite compare with Eleanor Steber's on LP, let alone Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Armstong on a London CD called "George Gershwin: The Ultimate Collection"). But Tibbett's wonderfully masculine voice is a real joy to hear (what great diction!). If you still need to cheer up, just listen to his "It ain't necessarily so" and the marvelous "I got plenty o' nuttin."

Track 11. Arthur Fiedler plays "Strike Up The Band." What can I say? At least it's mercifully short (2:17).

Track 12. While a fascinating comparison, the 1927 re-make of "Rhapsody In Blue," again with Gershwin on piano, doesn't have quite the same electricity as the performance on track 1. Still, it's quite delightful (really excelled only by the 1924 version).

That's CD 1. The other CD is generally of lesser interest: 1) Bernstein's first recording of American In Paris is quite similar to his stereo version - neither, to my ears, is as appealing as what's heard on track 2 of the first CD, 2) Morton Gould both plays & conducts Rhapsody in Blue - like everybody else's, it doesn't match Gershwin's 1924 account, but it's jazzier than most and is one of my three favorite modern accounts (the others: Jeffrey Siegel, with Charles Gerhardt conducting, on a deleted Reader's Digest CD set with utterly fabulous recorded sound, and Leonard Pennario with Felix Slatkin on an Angel CD that's still obtainable elsewhere on the internet), 3) the last 5 tracks feature Gould playing three preludes, a solo from Porgy, and then conducting a 30-minute Porgy suite. The latter is very pleasant, but the music really needs the inclusion of singers to make it work most effectively.

An essential part of any Gershwin collection.

Highly recommended.

Classically American.......2000-06-19

I bought this cd after seeing Woody Allen's Manhattan. I love Rhapsody in Blue, and this collection's three recordings are diverse and excellent. An American in Paris is also well represented with two distinct and pleasant recordings. This collection loses some points because these "historic" recordings are available only from vynil source, and some static is in the background of some of the older recordings. As well, there is not alot of diversity in the selections. If, however, you like these songs alot, listening to different interpretations of these songs can be a facinating study of some of the greatest classical music of the modern day.

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Historic Recordings 1930-1947
Albert Einstein
Manufacturer: British Library
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 0712305211
Release Date: 2006-01-02

Tracks:

Einstein on E=Mc2
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68 Minutes of Rare BBC Recordings.the Celebrated Physicist Talks About his Life and Work, the Jewish People and the World of Science. Includes Deluxe 24 Page Booklet with Rare Photos, Extensive Historical Liner Notes and Translations Where Necessary.

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SHURA CHERKASSKY - more 1940s delights resurrected!

The Historic Recordings

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ASIN: B00005B196
Release Date: 2001-04-17

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Few, if any, historic releases are as charming as Ivory Classics' Shura Cherkassky--The Historic 1940s Recordings. For Cherkassky--as for his teacher, Josef Hofmann--music was a vehicle for self-expression. Stories about Cherkassky's personal eccentricities are the stuff of legend, but he was not so much an eccentric pianist as an individualistic one. Unlike individualists of our own day, who seem to play "differently" simply to provoke and who merely sound quirky, the miracle about Cherkassky is that he usually sounded natural. You'll surely never hear a Brahms F Minor Sonata more original than the one reissued here. In the finale, the pianist discovers inner voices whose existence would have astonished Brahms himself. But despite the pianist's interest in luscious tone, polyphonic texture, and details within individual phrases, he never loses grasp of the overall shape of the work. Much of the rest of what's contained in these two discs is simply magical. In short, familiar pieces by Chopin and Liszt and, particularly, in lesser-known works by Medtner, Rebikov, Chaminade, and Scriabin, Cherkassky's pianism evokes the elegance and melancholy of a vanished era. --Stephen Wigler

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SHURA CHERKASSKY - more 1940s delights resurrected!.......2001-05-19

This excellent duo of CDs contains the same collection of early Vox and Swedish Cupol label recordings as on Pearl's `Piano Masters' series that Cherkassky made in 1946 and 1949. {see my review}. In addition to these rare and wonderful bonbons by Khachaturian, Shostakovitch, Liadov, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Rebikov, Glinka,Scriabin and Medtner etc., Ivory Classics also gives us the HMV historic 1940s recordings. Disc 1 begins with Saints-Saëns `Prelude and Fugue in F minor' in which the repeated chords of the Prelude shimmer delightfully at all dynamic levels from pianissimo through to fortissimo and the following Fugue sweeps along energetically with some brilliant octave playing. Cherkassky's Brahm's Sonata in F minor {a Vox recording} is also full of youthful passion, exuberance and grandeur. The Liszt `Liebesträume'{Electrola } is played with Cherkassky's full-throated cantabile and the HMV Chopin selection consists of: two Mazurkas, performed with a delightful feeling for their rhythmical dance origins - the second Impromptu in F sharp major played with Cherkassky's ravishing singing tone; the right hand scale passages fairly sparkle, as do those in the famous `Fantasie - Impromptu; Chopin's great Fantasie in F minor and two Etudes Op.10 {No: 12 & 4} which end disc 2 are brilliantly executed. Some critics have found Cherkassky's playing to be either `wilful' or `mannered'. On the contrary, these 1940s recordings are full of character and imagination - a quality that is in short supply these days! So do you purchase this Ivory Classics two CD set or the Pearl single CD? If you can afford it - buy both. The Pearl has a `live' recording of the second and third movts of Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto with Stokowski and the Hollywood Bowl SO . The Ivory Classics transfers are very good and their booklet is exemplary. Not only does it give detailed biographical notes of Cherkassky and all the composers featured but it also includes a fascinating selection of very rare photos of the great pianist as a boy and also at the time these recordings were made. I particularly like the photos taken of Cherkassky seated at the keyboard in his Hollywood home and one taken of him as a 13 year old wearing knee length boots and a large flat cap! An absolutely delightful tribute to a unique artist.

Tipping the Velvet: 24 Historic Music Hall Recordings

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Tipping the Velvet: 24 Historic Music Hall Recordings
Various Artists
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006IRKH
Release Date: 2007-05-08

Album Description

24 tracks. CD41 are pleased to announce the release of Tipping the Velvet, a full length CD of archive music hall tracks inspired by the acclaimed lesbian historical novel by Sarah Waters. Tipping the Velvet features original recordings made between 1915 and 1938 by several key artists, including Norah Blaney, Gwen Farrar, Cicely Courtneidge, Hetty King, Douglas Byng, Ella Shields and Vesta Tilley. As 78 rpm shellac discs claimed their corner of the entertainment market in the 1920's, lesbian and gay artists also made records, although in the wake of Oscar Wilde's earlier notoriety performers had usually to resort to novelty and caricature. Some of these sides are by male impersonators, such as King and Tilley, others by more overtly camp performers like Douglas Byng. Tracks include: Masculine Women! Feminine Men!, The Moon is Low, If I Had a Girl Like You, Piccadilly, Give Me a Million Beautiful Girls, I'm a Bird, Ukelele Lady and What Angeline Says, Goes. The CD has been edited by Andrew Simons, jazz curator at the British Library National Sound Archive. In his sleevenote he explains: ''In the Victorian era the music hall was the mass entertainment. There the heroines of Tipping the Velvet, Nan King and Kitty Butler, were social prisoners of the era, with modern conveniences such as public transport and mass media, but none of the enlightenment regarding diversity that we enjoy today. Reverse gender impersonators were no doubt an inspiration to the hidden lesbian and gay community.'' A major BBC television adaptation of the novel will be screened in three parts in September 2002. Running for 74 minutes and featuring extensive sleevenotes, the disc is a must for all students of left-field music hall, jazz, variety, and hidden social history.

Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies: The Historic Recordings Made By Colin M. Turnbull

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More than just anthropology.

Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies: The Historic Recordings Made By Colin M. Turnbull
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ASIN: B00000228W
Release Date: 1993-01-14

Tracks:

Elephant Song - Mbuti
Leaf-Carrying Song - Mbuti
Agba'a - Mbuti
Hunting Song - Mbuti
Honey-Gathering Song - Mbuti
Clementine (Batwa Pygmoids) - Mbuti
Harp Song - Lese
Song Of Men And Women - Lese
Marriage & Celebration Song - Lese
Stock And Zither Song - Bera
Dance Song Of Woman - Bera
Skipping Song - Bera
Funeral Song - Bera
Praise Song - Bera
Song Of The Harp - Nyari
Song Of Old Men - Nyari

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More than just anthropology........2000-07-05

This is the perfect companion to Colin Turnbull's "The forest people", a anthropology reader, popular in the sixties. Turnbull lived with the pygmies in the fifties where he made these recordings. If you enjoy being transported in time and culture or if you like music in its rawest form then you will enjoy this CD.

Pygmy Music is perhaps best described as bursts of harmonic yoldeling, intertwining in a dynamic, rhythmic fashion. It could be quite hypnotising and the enviromental forest setting makes the overall effect fascinating.

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Eloquent expression! .......2006-01-21

In this formidable album you will realize Artur Grumiaux is in top form. His lyricism and expressiveness is quite evident since the first bar you listened. He possessed that admirable and inimitable phrasing, supported by the most fervent passion and commitment.

This is a fundamental and excellent selection of his interpretative art. His Lekeu and Debussy violin Sonata do not know about rivals, even the elapsed time. I miss the exclusion of his Häendel works Op. 1 and several violin Sonatas of Mozart (specially the K. 376), but this artistic document well deserves its immediate acquisition.

Grumiaux was -undeniably- the best Belgium violinist after Ysaye, and one of the eternal icons of this instrument.

Brilliant Recordings Rescued From The Vaults.......2003-06-09

Now that Decca, Philips and Deutsche Grammophon, among others, are all part of Universal, we have seen some interesting things happen, and not all of them bad. What I'm referring to in this case is the new "Original Masters" Limited Edition Box Set series. Finally, the classical music world has taken a page out of the jazz reissue handbook -- put out a quality product featuring rare recordings but make its availability limited, and people will snatch it up. In the "Original Masters" series, first DG and now Decca/Philips have each reissued five box sets, of 4 to 7 CDs each, in distinguished, space-saving slim paper boxes, though the style of packaging is different. The DG sets feature 50s style graphics design on their covers, while the Decca/Philips ones have a distinctive rainbow/spectrum pattern on the spines and banners, and a black-and-white photo of the artist in question on the face of the box.

This particular set features the historical Philips recordings of the great violinist Arthur Grumiaux from 1953-62. As the track information is non-existent above, I will try to be of assistance. The first two discs contain the complete Mozart Violin Concertos, including K271i which is now regarded as doubtful (to be composed by Mozart), with Bernhard Paumgartner and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (VSO) from 1953-55. It is wonderful to compare these performances to Grumiaux's stereo Mozart VC Cycle on Philips with Colin Davis (see my review). Disc three is all works for violin and piano (with pianist Istvan Hajdu) -- Debussy, Ravel and Faure (No. 1) Sonatas, Ravel's Piece en Forme de Habanera, Faure's Les Berceaux, Saraste's Zigeunerweisen, Fiocco's Allegro, Granados' Andaluza, and Albeniz's Tango (all from 1962). Disc four features shorter works for violin and orchestra -- Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Chausson's Poeme, Ravel's Tzigane, Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and Havanaise. All are with Jean Fournet conducting the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux (OCL) from 1954, except the Capriccioso which is 1956. Lastly, CD Five returns to concertos with the Mendelssohn (Rudolf Moralt/VSO, 1954) and Paganini No. 4 (Franco Gallini/OCL, 1954), and concludes with Paganini's I Palpiti and Le Streghe with pianist Riccardo Castagnone (1958). Despite the fact that the recordings on four of the five discs are in mono (CD3 is in stereo), the first rate performances more than compensate for any audio shortcomings. Well, I guess the consolidation of the music industry isn't so bad after all, as long as I can look forward to more reissues like this.

The Bristol Sessions: Historic Recordings from Bristol, Tennessee

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Sara Carter like you've never heard her
The Bristol Sessions
Superb Stuff
the genesis of american country music!
this is an amazing collection

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Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Digipak)

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Release Date: 2000-09-12

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Skip To Ma Lou, My Darling - Uncle Eck Dunford
O Molly Dear - B.F. Shelton
Walking In The Way With Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
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The Soldier's Sweetheart - Jimmie Rodgers
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Sandy River Belle - Dad Blackard's Moonshiners
Sleep, Baby, Sleep - Jimmie Rodgers
Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners
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Little Log Cabin By The Sea - Carter Family
Old Time Corn Shuckin' (Parts 1 & 2) - Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers

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Midnight On The Stormy Deep - Ernest Stoneman, Irma Frost & Eck Dunford
The Wandering Boy - The Carter Family
To The Work - Alfred G. Karnes
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Tell Mother I Will Meet Her - Ernest Stoneman, K. Brewer & M. Mooney
Single Girl, Married Girl - The Carter Family
Pot Licker Blues - El Watson
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The Resurrection - Ernest Stoneman & His Dixie Mountaineers
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The Poor Orphan Child - Carter Family
I Am Bound For The Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes

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Right there on the cover, Johnny Cash calls these sessions "the single most important event in the history of country music," and it's hard to argue with him. Sure, there'd been "Southern" music recordings before these, and of course the music itself had existed for decades. But when Victor executive Ralph Peer went to Bristol, Tennessee, for two weeks in the summer of 1927, he not only jump-started the hillbilly music market, he basically defined the parameters of what would come to be called country music. Peer ran what amounted to an open-mike recording session, inviting any and all rural musicians to record their renditions of hillbilly music: gospels and blues, fiddle and banjo tunes, old-time mountain ballads. He recorded 19 acts (all of whom are represented in this collection), among them Ernest Stoneman and the Johnson Brothers, who were both established recording artists at the time. He also unearthed the two most significant country stars of the day--Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family--as well as the protest singer Blind Alfred Reed. What's most amazing is that even the lesser-known musicians offer performances as engaging as those legendary figures do: the commanding gospel of Kentucky preacher Alfred Karnes, accompanied by his own distinctive harp-guitar; the modal blues of banjo player B.F Shelor; the harmonica showcase of Henry Whitter; the rich a cappella harmonies of the Alcoa Quartet; the spritely fiddle work of Charles McReynolds, grandfather of future bluegrass stars Jim and Jesse. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Sara Carter like you've never heard her.......2007-04-05

I agree with the sentiments of the other reviewers here. So I will only add that those who are drawn to Sara Carter's hauntingly beautiful voice will be treated to her higher singing range, seldom heard later in the 1930's. It's quite noticable. When you hear her in the later recordings in the the late 1930's and beyond, her voice is nearly an octive lower and sounds a bit weary, at times, comparatively. The Bristol sessions are her finest, I believe.

The Bristol Sessions.......2003-02-18

This set is required listening (and owning) for anyone interested in American traditional folk music and/or country music before Nashville. Only 80% or so of the recordings are absolute gems, but pople can disagree about which cuts aren't gems. These recordings are touted as "the birth of country music". While that's pretty silly, it's not all that far from the truth. The recordings here give a wonderful picture of the state of mountain music within 100 miles of around Bristol -- from eastern KY to around Galax, VA, to southern WV and western NC, to east TN. Even what I think of as the duds are interesting and good music. You'll find the raw power of Alfred Karnes, the sweetness of the Carter Family, Nestor and Edmonds walking down from the mountains, and the jazzy modernity of Jimmie Rodgers and the Tenneva Ramblers. It's a wonderful panoramic view of great music.

Superb Stuff.......2001-09-11

What a brilliant collection. The items by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers are familiar. But the others, except for Blind Alfred Reed's 'Wreck of the Virginian', are new to me. And the majority really are very good. Uncle Eck Dunford's 'Skip to Ma Lou' gets the set off to a rollicking start, and the quality never lets up. Henry Whitter's harmonica playing is a revelation, and the various numbers by Ernest Stoneman reach the high standard expected of this fine traditional musician. For me, the high spot is the singing of Alfred G Karnes. What a superb voice this Kentucky preacher had. And his simple accompaniment on his Gibson harp-guitar complements his singing perfectly. This is the fountainhead of country music. And the sound quality is pretty good too - much better than might be expected from discs cut on primitive equipment at the dawn of the electrical recording era in a temporary studio set up in a one time furniture store. If you have any interest in country music, buy this and see where it all started. You won't be disappointed.

the genesis of american country music!.......1999-12-09

These recordings (including the first by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family) mark the moment when folk music became country music (pre-Nashville). Anyone who enjoyed Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music will love this record!

this is an amazing collection.......1999-11-23

If you are at all interested in knowing where contemporary American music comes from in order to possibly see where it might go, this is a necessary reference piece for any Americana music collector. Additionally, the simplicity and humanity displayed in these recordings has rarely be matched. This collection has captured history and created a soul-moving piece of art.

Blowers from the Balkans: Classic Historic Recordings of Wind Instruments

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Blowers from the Balkans: Classic Historic Recordings of Wind Instruments
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Topic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BCHJV0
Release Date: 2006-10-16

Tracks:

Chindia (Dusk)- Orchestra Romaneasca
Stalingrad - Orchistra P. Mamakou
Invertita dela Chicago - Orchestra lui Hartegan
Hategana - Orchestra lui Hartegan
Invartita din Indiana Harbor - Orchestra lui Hartegan
Dura, dura (Glide Along)- Orchestra Alex Mata
Cavalul - Paun Muscalagiu
Sarba lui Fanica Luca - Fanica Luca and orchestra
Invartita cu strigari (Invirtita with shouts)- Orchestra Monea Gheorghe cu Luta lovita
Snoshti minaha prez selo turtsi - drugovertsi (Last night the infidel Turks passed through the village) - Atanas Georgi Gergov
Panayot Vonka dumashe (Panayot advises Vonka) - Georgi Atanasov Kehaiov
"Valle"-kapisseshte (Dance) - P. Opingar and S. T. Ilo
Pare me kai mena barba (Take me with you, uncle) - Georgia Mittaki and Folk Orchestra
Syrtos mesogeitikos (Mesogeian syrtos) - Nikos Karakostas and Folk Orchestra
Dyosmos ki vasilikos (Mint and basil) - Georgos Anestopoulos with Folk Orchestra
Kritiko syrto (Cretan syrtos) - Orhistra Kosta Gadini
Mana mou stelleis mia grafi (Mother, you send me a letter) - Kostas Gadinis
Palii kleftes (Old klephts) - Ipeirotiki laiki orhistra (Epirot Folk Orchestra)
Trygona (Turtle dove) - Hristos Kyriakis and Hristos Germanos
O Zaharias (Zacharias) - Andonis Sakellariou and Orchestra
Vohaitissa (Girl from Voha) - Kostas Karras
I nosokoma (The Nurse) - Orhistra P. Mamakou
Zeibekiko - Evangelakis Vlahos and Kostas Kastrounis
Tsirigotiko einai to nero (The Water is Tsirgiotic) - Kyria Koula
Barba-Giannis (Uncle Yiannis) - Orhistra Kosta Gadini

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