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Table of Contents:

• Mamma's black baby boy / Chas. Hunn (Unique Quartette) (2:26)
• Keep movin' (Standard Quartette) (2:51)
• Who broke the lock (Unique Quartette) (2:49)
• Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope (Oriole Quartette) (2:32)
• Poor mourner (2:01) ; Who broke the lock (2:14) (Cousins and DeMoss)
• Down on the old camp ground (Dinwiddie Colored Quartet) (2:31)
• Jerusalem mornin' (Polk Miller's Old South Quartette) (2:04)
• Little David, play on yo' harp : (Shout all over God's heaven) (Fisk University Jubilee Quartet) (2:46)
• Swing low, sweet chariot (2:42) ; Shout all over God's Heaven (2:20) (Apollo Jubilee Quartette)
• Good news (Tuskegee Institute Singers) (2:23)
• The rain song / Alex Rogers ; Will Marion Cook (Right Quintette) (3:19)
• Goodnight Angeline / Noble Sissle ; Eubie Blake (Four Harmony Kings) (3:12)
• Experiences in the show business (Charley Case) (3:08)
• The whistling coon / Sam Devere (George W. Johnson) (2:47)
• Adam and Eve and de winter apple (Louis Vasnier) (1:06)
• The laughing song (George W. Johnson) (2:31)
• Minstrel first part, featuring "The laughing song" (Spencer, Williams, and Quinn's Imperial Minstrels) (3:07)
• Listen to the mocking bird / Septimus Winner ; Richard Milburn (George W. Johnson) (1:42)
• The laughing coon (2:22) ; The whistling girl (2:31) (George W. Johnson)
• My little Zulu babe / W.S. Estren ; James T. Brymn (Williams and Walker) (2:47)

• Carving the duck (George W. Johnson) (2:41)
• The merry mail man (Len Spencer-George W. Johnson) (3:01)
• Abyssinia. Nobody / Alex Rogers ; Bert Williams (Bert Williams) (2:53)
• My own story of the big fight. Part I (Jack Johnson) (3:43)
• Beans, beans, beans / Chris Smith ; Elmer Bowman (Opal Cooper) (3:10)
• Great camp meetin' day / Gene Mikell ; Noble Sissle (Noble Sissle) (2:39)
• Atlanta Exposition speech (Booker T. Washington) (3:29)
• Old black Joe / Stephen Foster (Thomas Craig) (1:58)
• Old dog Tray / Stephen Foster (Carroll Clark) (2:49)
• I surrender all / Judson W. Van DeVenter ; Winfield S. Weeden (Daisy Tapley ; Carroll Clark) (2:40)
• Swing along / Will Marion Cook (Afro-American Folk Song Singers) (3:56)
• The rain song / Alex Rogers ; Will Marion Cook (Afro-American Folk Song Singers) (3:06)
• Exhortation / Alex Rogers ; Will Marion Cook (Right Quintette) (3:22)
• Pagliacci. Arioso : Vesti la giubba / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (Roland Hayes) (2:53)
• Go down Moses (Harry T. Burleigh) (2:03)
• Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Edward H.S. Boatner) (2:41)
• Villanelle / Eva Dell'Acqua (Florence Cole-Talbert) (3:13)
• Barcarolle / R. Nathaniel Dett (Dett) (2:46)
• Lament / Clarence Cameron White (White) (3:36)
• When de co'n pone's hot ; 'Possum / Paul Laurence Dunbar (Edward Sterling Wright) (4:16)
• Down home rag / Wilbur C. Sweatman (Europe's Society Orchestra) (3:31)
• Bregeiro : (Rio Brazilian maxixe) / B.E. Nazareth (Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra) (3:59)
• On the shore at Le-Lei-Wei / Henry Kalimar ; Herbert Reynolds ; Jerome Kern (Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra) (3:46)
• Down home rag / Wilbur C. Sweatman (Sweatman) (1:26)
• Some jazz blues / M.L. Lake (Memphis Pickaninny Band) (2:49)
• Sarah from Sahara / Hugo Frey (Eubie Blake Trio) (2:54)
• The jazz dance / W. Benton Overstreet (Blake's Jazzone Orchestra) (3:06)
• Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues but I'm happy / Henry Creamer ; J. Turner Layton (Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band) (2:59)
• Darktown strutters' ball / Shelton Brooks (Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band) (2:58)
• Camp meeting blues / W.T. Carroll (Ford Dabney's Band) (2:13)
• St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band) (3:12).

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Contributors:

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983 , performer

Boatner, Edward , performer

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949 , performer

Case, Charley, 1858-1916 , performer

Clark, Carroll (Baritone) , performer

Cole-Talbert, Florence , performer

Cooper, Opal, 1889?-1974 , performer

Craig, Thomas (Bass) , performer

Dabney, Ford T., 1883-1958 , performer

Dett, R. Nathaniel, 1882-1943 , performer

Europe, James Reese, 1881-1919 , performer

Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 , performer

Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977 , performer

Johnson, George W., 1846-approximately 1910 , performer

Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946 , performer

Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975 , performer

Sweatman, Wilbur C. S. , performer

Tapley, Daisy , performer

Vasnier, Louis , performer

Walker, George, 1873-1911 , performer

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 , performer

White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960 , performer

Williams, Bert, 1874-1922 , performer

Wright, Edward Sterling , performer

Brooks, Tim

Afro-American Folk Song Singers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Apollo Quartette (Vocal group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Blake's Jazzone Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Cousins and DeMoss , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Dinwiddie Colored Quartet , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Eubie Blake Trio , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Europe's Society Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Handy's Memphis Blues Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Joan Sawyer's Persian Garden Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Jubilee Singers (Fisk University) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Memphis Pickaninny Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Old South Quartette , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Oriole Quartette , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Right Quintette , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Standard Quartette , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Tuskegee Institute > Singers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Unique Quartette , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English
Italian

Language Notes:

Vocal selections sung principally in English; track 8, disc 2 sung in Italian.

Included Works:

Lost sounds [by Brooks, T.]

Adam and Eve and de winter apple

Barcarolle

Beans, beans, beans

Bregeiro

Brother Michael, won't you hand down that rope

Camp meeting blues

Carving the duck

Darktown strutters' ball

Down home rag

Down on the old camp ground

Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues but I'm happy

Exhortation

Experiences in the show business

Go down Moses

Good news

Goodnight Angeline

Great camp meetin' day

I surrender all

Jazz dance

Jerusalem mornin'

Keep movin'

Lament

Laughing coon

Laughing song

Listen to the mocking bird

Little David, play on yo' harp

Mamma's black boy

Merry mail man

My little Zulu babe

Nobody

Old black Joe

Old dog Tray

On the shore at Le-Lei-Wei

Poor mourner

'Possum

Rain song

Sarah from Sahara

Shout all over God's Heaven

Some jazz blues

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

St. Louis blues

Swing along

Swing low, sweet chariot

Vesti la giubba

Villanelle (Complete)

When de co'n pone's hot

Whistling coon

Whistling girl

Who broke the lock

Will Marion Cook

Related Series:

Genres series; 5th v.

Subjects:

African Americans — Music

Blues (Music) — To 1931

Gospel music

Jazz — To 1921

Popular music — United States

Ragtime music

Spirituals (Songs)

To 1931

African Americans

Blues (Music)

Jazz

Popular music

United States

Genres:

Music

General Notes:

"Companion CD to the book Lost sounds / by Tim Brooks"--Original container.
Archeophone Records: 1005 (on original container spine: ARCH 1005).
Originally issued as compact discs.
Principally spirituals, minstrel & vaudeville songs, art music, rags, jazz, and blues performances by Black composers and musicians from the early days of the recording industry.
Program notes by Tim Brooks and David Giovannoni (58 p. ; ill., facsims., ports.) on insert.
Recordings originally released as wax cylinders and discs on various labels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file).

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

697954592

Other Control Numbers:

556339 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP556339/amso