- Playlist Creator: Library of Congress
- Date Playlist Created: 07/06/2011
- Here is an eclectic mix of a dozen selections from the National Jukebox’s vast array of Victor records. It features ragtime, opera, Hawaiian music, a New York-dialect specialty, and two African American recording pioneers, the Dinwiddie Colored Quartet and comedian Bert Williams.
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- Flirting whistler (02:45)
- Band
- Conway's Band
- 1915-08-05
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- Scissors to grind (02:34)
- Male vocal solo, with orchestra
- Arthur Collins
- 1904-11-03
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- Meleana e (02:23)
- Vocal and instrumental ensemble (Hawaiian)
- Irene West Royal Hawaiians
- 1914-12-19
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- Largo al factotum (02:38)
- Tenor vocal solo
- Sig. Carlos Francisco [i.e., Emilio de Gogorza]
- 1901-01-22
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- Chimmie and Maggie at the Hippodrome (03:23)
- Descriptive scene, with orchestra
- Ada Jones
- Len Spencer
- 1905-12-15
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- Tobasco waltz (03:23)
- Military band
- Arthur Pryor's Band
- 1909-12-08
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- In pure stille (03:12)
- Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra
- Lucrezia Bori
- 1915-04-16
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- We'll anchor bye-and-bye (02:40)
- Male vocal quartet, unaccompanied
- Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
- 1902-10-31
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- Ruff Johnson's harmony band (02:43)
- Male vocal solo, with orchestra
- William J. Halley
- 1914-12-04
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- Hungarian czardas (03:05)
- Cimbalom solo, with piano
- Joseph Moskowitz
- 1916-02-04
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- All going out and nothing coming in (02:45)
- Male vocal solo, with piano
- Bert Williams
- 1901-10-11
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- Canhanibalmo rag (02:41)
- Band
- Arthur Pryor's Band
- 1911-05-08
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