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Title:

I wish they'd do it now

Performer:

Len Spencer.

Year of Release:

[between 1890 and 1902]

Audio:

Stream cylinder 5218: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB)
Download: Unedited 24-bit wav file (35-70 MB)

Note:

Brown wax cylinder.

Note:

Title and performer from announcement.

Note:

Same performer recorded this title as "Columbia 7339." Possible pirate issue or independent recording company release.

Collection Name:

Todd collection.

Composer/Performer:

Spencer, Len, 1867-1914.

Subject:

Popular music--To 1901.

Item Location:

Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 5218

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Peter on the sea - 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: 978), [1912].

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Concert cylinders sold for around $5US in 1898, about $110US in 2005 dollars. And you think CDs are a rip off!