happy? – Nov 14 (First folk on disc)

Subject: happy? – Nov 14 (First folk on disc)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 08:29 AM


New York City: Cousins & Demoss record "Who Broke the Lock".

The first significant folk recording on disc was cut 11/14/1895

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Subject: RE: happy? – Nov 14 (First folk on disc)
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 01:21 PM

A disc??!! Not a cylinder? You positive?             Tw

Subject: RE: happy? – Nov 14 (First folk on disc)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 04:02 PM

Good question. I'll have a look. Yes, it does seem unlikely.

Subject: RE: happy? � Nov 14 (First folk on disc)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 06:08 PM

I don't have any notes on this, I'm afraid. Several sources give first recorded in 1929 by Bryant's Jubilee Quartet, a cylinder.

Found a great reissue, though. Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922 which gives Who Broke the Lock by Cousins and DeMoss (1898) and a clip. From the cylinder (Looks like a great CD set. With book. Important.)

Maybe this item should be withdrawn temporarily pendi further research.

Subject: RE: happy? – Nov 14 (First folk on disc)
From: R. Padgett
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 05:34 PM

Great site Abby

Percy Grainger the Australian composer also collected and recorded in Lincolnshire Uk between 1905 -1908 to wax cylinder

I am not sure when discs/with needles came in to fashion and the technology and mass production e.g sound horns I think were used with waxed cylinders too

Subject: RE: happy? – Nov 14 (First folk on disc)
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 11:32 AM

Boy, if you can't learn it on Mudcat, it's either:
A)Not true, or
B)Not worth knowing. (IMHO)            Tw