Library of Congress
Earlier today the Library of Congress unveiled a project that, now that it's here, I can't imagine why it didn't get here sooner, the National Jukebox. Now you can hear some of the rare audio recordings at the Library without having to schlep your Victrola to Washington, DC.
There are lots of toes tapping here at TRMS World HQ. My favorites so far, the novelty tune "That slippery slide trombone" and a spoken-word piece, "The farmer and the hogs." Tell us what you're listening to, won't you?
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Oh! I just discovered a playlist called "Black Broadway and Tin Pan Alley!" http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/playlists/detail/id/3
Very nice
Yow! Well, I wasn't planning on getting anything productive done for the rest of the day anyway. SUCH a cool find!!!
"Circus day in Dixie."
So nerd-rad. Thanks, TRMS crew!
TRMS group does it again.. never knew about this but can't wait to hear more
Thanks for showing this. I have sahred it with the older family members who cannot read books anymore.
This is seriously cool. :) Thanks!
Loved the farmer and pigs! Thought you might find this entertaining: Rap News 7: Revolution Spreads to America, by the juicemedia...on YouTube .. Enjoy ^J^
Charley Patton: "High Water Everywhere."
I'm listening to the Irving Berlin playlist. "A pretty girl is like a melody" specifically.
The Library of Congress is by far one of the best things our country spends our tax money on. Such history!
RAAAACCHHEEEEEELLL.... why can't we get this sort of excitement and trend setting for using the Library of Congress.. - Thomas... for example, or the Federal Register... or BEA or ... to get folks moving in the direction of sourcing facts, instead of echo chambers of viral stories.... just saying...
Have you ever been in the Federal Register?! Years ago, I spent four nights there once, and though it served me well, I fear anyone who dives in, risks never finding their way back out.
Speaking of finding their way... think I'll go lose myself for awhile in TRMS' find.
Thank you!!! =)
Cotton Belt Blues
Wow, this is SO cool. Thanks Tricia!!!
I love that on the Facebook comments, someone said that this isn't the kind of thing an individual or a county or a state could do..... :-D
Behold the power of The Maddow :)
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this is the coolest thing ever!
You get no bread with one meatball..".results not found" :(
Listening to " Why the trusts and bosses oppose the Progressive Party" Speaker Theodore Roosevelt http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/2859
Listening to " Woodrow Wilson on democratic principles"
I looked for Baby Snooks radio broadcasts, but couldn't find them. Awwwww.....
The collection only goes up to 1929, and Fanny Brice (so far as I know) only started doing radio in the '30s.
Some of my favorites from the Victorian period are "Saxophobia" by Rudy Wiedoeft, anything by Vess L Ossman (The Banjo King), and "The Mocking Bird - Fantasia." AKA "Listen To The Mockingbird" by Charles Daab which later became The Three Stooges theme. Another amazing banjo player from that period is Fred Van Epps. All of these can be heard on YouTube.
Also if you want to hear some good pre PRE war music check out WFMUs Edison's Attic! http://wfmu.org/playlists/TE
Wow! Really? "You lie!" Ha ha!
Some of my favorites from the Victorian period are "Saxophobia" by Rudy Wiedoeft, anything by Vess L. Ossman (The Banjo King), and "The Mocking Bird - Fantasia." AKA "Listen To The Mockingbird" by Charles Daab which later became The Three Stooges theme. Another amazing banjo player from that period is Fred Van Epps. All of these can be heard on YouTube.
Also if you want to hear some good pre PRE war music check out WFMUs Edison's Attic! http://wfmu.org/playlists/TE