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The Sound of Fame

Item number (ISN):

334963

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1888/1929

Item number (ISN):

334963

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

THOMAS ALVA EDISON FOUNDATION, INC.

Accession:

1971-0022

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1888/1929

Production company:

Edison Foundation

Description:

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This album includes the following re-recordings. Side 1: comments by Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, about the invention of his phonograph, recorded on the 50th anniversary of the phonograph's invention, 1927; comments by Sir Arthur Sullivan, musician, about the Edison phonograph recorded on 5 October 1888; bell music, "Light As a Feather", by John Burkhardt, musician, recorded on 21 June 1917; song, "Some of These Days", Sophia Tucker, singer, recorded in April 1911; song and music, "Rose Room", by the Piccadilly Players, orchestra, recorded on 2 February 1928; song "Roamin' in the Gloamin", by Sir Harry Lauder, singer, recorded in July 1911; song, "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee", by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, singers, recorded in August 1912; organ music, "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", by Henrietta Kamern, musician, recorded in 1928.~Side 2: piano music, "Second Hungarian Rhapsody", by Sergei Rachmaninoff, musician, recorded on 22 April 1919; song, "Sei Forse l'Angelo Fedele", by Claudia Muzio, singer, recorded on 3 November 1920; song, "The Waltz Song", by Lucrezia Bori, singer, recorded in April 1913; piano music, "Preludes" (Op. 28), by Moriz Rosenthal, musician, recorded on 1 March 1929; song, "Suicide", by Emmy Destinn, singer, recorded on 16 December 1911; and piano music, "Étude in C" (Op. 10 no. 1), by Moriz Rosenthal, musician, recorded on 5 April 1929. <52mn>

Language:

English

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Vault ISN:

371753

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1971-0022/1

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Duration:

52:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

943465

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

334963-1971-0022-1.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1971-0022/1

Status:

MASTER
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