Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922

Compilation by Various Artists

Released 11 October 2005

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Mamma's Black Baby Boy
    Unique Quartette
    2:29
  • 2
    Keep Movin'
    Standard Quartette
    2:54
  • 3
    Who Broke the Lock
    Unique Quartette
    2:51
  • 4
    Brother Michael, Won't You Hand Down That Rope
    Oriole Quartette
    2:34
  • 5
    Poor Mourner
    Cousins & DeMoss
    2:03
  • 6
    Who Broke the Lock
    Cousins & DeMoss
    2:16
  • 7
    Down on the Old Camp Ground
    Dinwiddie Colored Quartette
    2:33
  • 8
    Jerusalem Mornin'
    Polk Miller's Old South Quartet
    2:07
  • 9
    Little David/Shout All Over God's Heaven
    Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
    2:49
  • 10
    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
    Apollo Jubilee Quartette
    2:44
  • 11
    Shout All Over God's Heaven
    Apollo Jubilee Quartette
    2:22
  • 12
    Good News
    Tuskegee Institute Singers
    2:26
  • 13
    The Rain Song
    Right Quintette
    3:21
  • 14
    Goodnight Angeline
    Four Harmony Kings
    3:15
  • 15
    Experiences in the Show Business
    Charley Case
    3:10
  • 16
    The Whistling Coon
    George Johnson
    2:49
  • 17
    Adam and Eve and De Winter Apple (excerpt)
    Louis "Bebe" Vasnier
    1:09
  • 18
    The Laughing Song
    George Johnson
    2:34
  • 19
    Minstrel First Part, featuring ‘The Laughing Song’
    Spencer, Williams and Quinn’s Imperial Minstrels
    3:10
  • 20
    Listen to the Mocking Bird
    George Johnson
    1:45
  • 21
    The Laughing Coon
    George Johnson
    2:25
  • 22
    The Whistling Girl
    George Johnson
    2:33
  • 23
    My Little Zulu Babe
    Williams and Walker
    2:49
  • 24
    Carving the Duck
    George Johnson
    2:44
  • 25
    The Merry Mail Man
    Len Spencer & George W. Johnson
    3:04
  • 26
    Nobody
    Bert Williams
    2:55
  • 27
    My Own Story of the Big Fight, Part 1
    Jack Johnson
    3:45
  • 28
    Beans, Beans, Beans
    Opal Cooper
    3:12
  • 29
    Great Camp Meetin' Day
    Noble Sissle
    2:39
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Atlanta Exposition Speech
    Booker T. Washington
    3:32
  • 2
    Old Black Joe
    Thomas Craig
    2:00
  • 3
    Old Dog Tray
    Carroll Clark
    2:52
  • 4
    I Surrender All
    Daisy Tapley & Carroll Clark
    2:42
  • 5
    Swing Along
    Afro American Folk Song Singers
    3:58
  • 6
    The Rain Song
    Afro American Folk Song Singers
    3:08
  • 7
    Exhortation
    Right Quintette
    3:24
  • 8
    Arioso From 'Pagliacci' ('Vesta La Giubba')
    Roland Hayes
    2:55
  • 9
    Go Down Moses
    Henry Thacker Burleigh
    2:06
  • 10
    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    Edward H.S. Boatner
    2:43
  • 11
    Villanelle
    Florence Cole-Talbert
    3:16
  • 12
    Barcarolle
    R. Nathaniel Dett
    2:48
  • 13
    Lament
    Clarence Cameron White
    3:38
  • 14
    When De Co'n Pone's Hot/Possum
    Edward Sterling Wright
    4:19
  • 15
    Down Home Rag
    James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra
    3:34
  • 16
    Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian Maxixe)
    Joan Sawyer’s Persian Garden Orchestra
    4:02
  • 17
    On the Shore at Le-Lei-Wei
    Ciro’s Club Coon Orchestra
    3:48
  • 18
    Down Home Rag
    Wilbur C. Sweatman
    1:29
  • 19
    Some Jazz Blues
    Memphis Pickaninny Band
    2:51
  • 20
    Sarah From Sahara
    Eubie Blake Trio
    2:57
  • 21
    The Jazz Dance
    Blake's Jazzone Orchestra
    3:09
  • 22
    Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues but I'm Happy
    Wilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band
    3:01
  • 23
    Darktown Strutters' Ball
    Lieut. Jim Europe’s 369th Infantry ‘Hell Fighters’ Band
    3:01
  • 24
    Camp Meeting Blues
    Ford Dabney's Band
    2:15
  • 25
    St. Louis Blues
    W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band
    3:12

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