Take this letter to my mother / Will Oakland and Chorus. Edison Blue Amberol: 3097 [1917] | Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

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Title:

Take this letter to my mother

Performer(s):

Will Oakland and Chorus.

Issue Number/Label:

3097: Edison Blue Amberol

Issue Number/Label:

5051: Edison Record

Year of Release:

[1917]

Audio:

Stream cylinder 7650: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB) (Usage info)

Note:

Dubbed from Edison Diamond Disc matrix 5051.

Note:

Year of release from "Edison Blue Amberol Recordings" by R. Dethlefson, v.2 (1981).

Note:

Edison Blue Amberol: 3097.

Note:

Counter-tenor solo, orchestra accompaniment.

Personal Name:

Hays, Will. S. (William Shakespeare), 1837-1907.

Personal Name:

Oakland, Will, 1883-1956.

Subject:

Popular music--1911-1920.

Original Item Location:

Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 7650 (Take 4)

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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.