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Twenty mp3s of Great Songs from 1901-1920
30 June 2006• byJ.D. Roth
It’s a shame most people are unfamiliar with American Popular Music. ... ... — I could rip mp3s from my collection and post them. So I have. All mp3s in this entry are in the Public Domain — download and share!
The best way to introduce this music is probably to offer the entire 1991 RCA collection called Nipper’s Greatest Hits: 1901-1920. This disc is long out-of-print. It sells for $190 on Amazon. One copy recently sold for $60 on eBay. In the early days of eBay, I lost a bidding war for this disc. I contacted the winning bidder, and she graciously made me a copy of the disc and the insert.
According to the liner notes:
The selections of Nipper’s Greatest Hits: 1901-1920, are redolent of those days when performers played and sang into a simple acoustical horn whose vibrations were sensitized onto the wax of a revolving disc. Today’s digital restoration of the early shellac records not only eliminates unwanted ticks, pops, and surface noise; it also amplifies the sound signal, so that in this compilation one hears those musical pioneers in their best guise.
Here are all twenty songs from the set,.... This isn’t a comprehensive list of popular music of the era. ... However, it’s a good representation music that was popular one hundred years ago. ..."
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