Phono-cylinders
By: edited [by] and from the collection of George A. Blacker
Publisher: Folkways Records
Published: 1961
Place of publication: N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity]
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Vocal music; Instrumental music; Politics and government; American wit and humor
Description: Presents reissues of recordings, principally from Edison phonocylinders, with everything "from cornball comedy to military band selections to serious political speeches."
Notes: Folkways: FS 3886--FS 3887.

Identical program notes by the editor (7 p.) inserted in each slipcase.
Table of contents: title: Sound selections from "A country girl" (London Regimental Band); title: Daybreak at Calamity Farm (Len Spencer & Gilbert Girard); title: Tramp, tramp, tramp (Byron G. Harlan, Frank C. Stanley & chorus); title: Dream of the rarebit fiend (Edison Military Band); title: Immortality (excerpt from lecture "The prince of peace") (William Jennings Bryan); title: The village seamstress (Elene Foster); title: Kerry Mill's barn dance band; title: The ragtime drummer (James Lent); title: I'm afraid to come home in the dark (Arthur Collins); title: Unlawful trusts (William Howard Taft); title: When I was 21 & you were sweet 16 (Walter Van Brunt); title: Hermit's bell overture (Maillart) (American Symphony Orchestra); title: Waiting at the church (Ada Jones); title: Rip Van Winkle meets Meenie (Joseph Jefferson).; title: In the good old steam boat days (Murry K. Hill); title: That's where I come in (Edward M. Favor); title: Farmer & the businessman (Theodore Roosevelt); title: A confidential chat (Press Eldridge); title: Old Daddy Pegleg (New York Military Band); title: The girl who threw me down (Edward M. Favor & chorus); title: I used to be afraid to come home in the dark (Billy Murray); title: Laughing song (George W. Johnson); title: I've told his missus all about him (Helen Trix); title: The baseball girl (Miss Ray Cox); title: For you alone (U.S. Everlasting); title: Street piano medley (August Molinari); title: Mouse & the clock (Edison Concert Band); title: House cleaning time (Ada Jones & Len Spencer); title: B.P.O.E. (Elk's song) (Nat M. Wills).