Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922
Compilation by Various Artists
Released 11 October 2005
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Mamma's Black Baby BoyUnique Quartette2:29
- 2Keep Movin'Standard Quartette2:54
- 3Who Broke the LockUnique Quartette2:51
- 4Brother Michael, Won't You Hand Down That RopeOriole Quartette2:34
- 5Poor MournerCousins & DeMoss2:03
- 6Who Broke the LockCousins & DeMoss2:16
- 7Down on the Old Camp GroundDinwiddie Colored Quartette2:33
- 8Jerusalem Mornin'Polk Miller's Old South Quartet2:07
- 9Little David/Shout All Over God's HeavenFisk University Jubilee Quartet2:49
- 10Swing Low, Sweet ChariotApollo Jubilee Quartette2:44
- 11Shout All Over God's HeavenApollo Jubilee Quartette2:22
- 12Good NewsTuskegee Institute Singers2:26
- 13The Rain SongRight Quintette3:21
- 14Goodnight AngelineFour Harmony Kings3:15
- 15Experiences in the Show BusinessCharley Case3:10
- 16The Whistling CoonGeorge Johnson2:49
- 17Adam and Eve and De Winter Apple (excerpt)Louis "Bebe" Vasnier1:09
- 18The Laughing SongGeorge Johnson2:34
- 19Minstrel First Part, featuring ‘The Laughing Song’Spencer, Williams and Quinn’s Imperial Minstrels3:10
- 20Listen to the Mocking BirdGeorge Johnson1:45
- 21The Laughing CoonGeorge Johnson2:25
- 22The Whistling GirlGeorge Johnson2:33
- 23My Little Zulu BabeWilliams and Walker2:49
- 24Carving the DuckGeorge Johnson2:44
- 25The Merry Mail ManLen Spencer & George W. Johnson3:04
- 26NobodyBert Williams2:55
- 27My Own Story of the Big Fight, Part 1Jack Johnson3:45
- 28Beans, Beans, BeansOpal Cooper3:12
- 29Great Camp Meetin' DayNoble Sissle2:39
- CD 2
- 1Atlanta Exposition SpeechBooker T. Washington3:32
- 2Old Black JoeThomas Craig2:00
- 3Old Dog TrayCarroll Clark2:52
- 4I Surrender AllDaisy Tapley & Carroll Clark2:42
- 5Swing AlongAfro American Folk Song Singers3:58
- 6The Rain SongAfro American Folk Song Singers3:08
- 7ExhortationRight Quintette3:24
- 8Arioso From 'Pagliacci' ('Vesta La Giubba')Roland Hayes2:55
- 9Go Down MosesHenry Thacker Burleigh2:06
- 10Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless ChildEdward H.S. Boatner2:43
- 11VillanelleFlorence Cole-Talbert3:16
- 12BarcarolleR. Nathaniel Dett2:48
- 13LamentClarence Cameron White3:38
- 14When De Co'n Pone's Hot/PossumEdward Sterling Wright4:19
- 15Down Home RagJames Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra3:34
- 16Bregeiro (Rio Brazilian Maxixe)Joan Sawyer’s Persian Garden Orchestra4:02
- 17On the Shore at Le-Lei-WeiCiro’s Club Coon Orchestra3:48
- 18Down Home RagWilbur C. Sweatman1:29
- 19Some Jazz BluesMemphis Pickaninny Band2:51
- 20Sarah From SaharaEubie Blake Trio2:57
- 21The Jazz DanceBlake's Jazzone Orchestra3:09
- 22Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues but I'm HappyWilbur C. Sweatman's Original Jazz Band3:01
- 23Darktown Strutters' BallLieut. Jim Europe’s 369th Infantry ‘Hell Fighters’ Band3:01
- 24Camp Meeting BluesFord Dabney's Band2:15
- 25St. Louis BluesW.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band3:12
Release credits
- lead vocals [26]
- cello [15]
- drums (drum set) [15]
- violin [13]
- choir vocals [2]
- clarinet [15]
- baritone vocals [10]
- piano [15]
- violin [15]
- choir vocals [2]
- bass vocals [7], choir vocals [7]
- baritone vocals [9]
- choir vocals [7], tenor vocals [7]
- bass vocals [7], choir vocals [7]
- conductor [15]
- piano [15]
- choir vocals [2]
- piano [12]
- tenor vocals [8]
- choir vocals [7], tenor vocals [7]
- violin [15]
- violin [15]
- cornet [15]
- choir vocals [2]
Issues
- L11 October 2005