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Title:

Hezekiah Hopkins comes to town

Performer:

Len Spencer.

Issue Number/Label:

458: Edison Amberol

Year of Release:

[1910]

Audio:

Stream cylinder 1848: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB)
Download: Unedited 24-bit wav file (35-70 MB)

Note:

Edison Amberol: 458.

Note:

Year of release from "The Edison Phonograph Monthly," v.8 (1910).

Note:

Rube sketch.

Collection Name:

Todd collection.

Composer/Performer:

Boone, Elizabeth D.

Composer/Performer:

Spencer, Len, 1867-1914.

Subject:

Vaudeville.

Item Location:

Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 1848

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Roll Jordan roll - Fisk University Jubilee Quartette (John W. Work, first tenor; Roland W. Hayes, second tenor; Leon P. O'Hara, first bass; Charles Wesley, second bass) [i.e. Fisk Jubilee Singers]. (Edison Amberol: 980), [1912].

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Cylinders are acoustic recordings--performers sang or played into a recording horn, not a microphone. Microphones were not in widespread use until 1924 with the advent of electrical recording.