Free Pre-1925 Music to Listen to

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Will Friedwald, Tracks to Our Music Heritage; The Library of Congress takes a serious step toward making historical recordings available online. Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576343394046637256.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Note:
(a) National Jukebox; Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
(" available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives")

* jukebox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukebox
(The term "jukebox" came into use in the United States around 1940, apparently derived from the familiar usage "juke joint", derived from the Gullah word "juke" or "joog" meaning disorderly, rowdy, or wicked.)
* playlist (n): "a list of recordings to be played on the air by a radio station; also : a similar list used for organizing a personal digital music collection"

(b) Victor Talking Machine Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company
(1901–1929; founded by Eldridge R. Johnson; the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey; sold to Radio Corporation of America (RCA); section 1 1 Name and logo; sections 4 Victor (Japan) and 5 The Victrola)

(c) Great American Songbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Songbook

(d) Enrico Caruso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso
(1873-1921; an Italian tenor)

* tenor (n; Latin tenor uninterrupted course, from tenēre to hold):
"the highest natural adult male singing voice; also : a person having this voice"

(e) 78 (number)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78_(number)
(In reference to gramophone records, 78 refers those meant to be spun at 78 revolutions per minute. Compare: LP ["Long Playing"], 33 1/3 and 45 rpm.)

(f) phonograph cylinder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder
(Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1888–1915), these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical phonograph. The competing disc-shaped gramophone record system triumphed in the market place to become the dominant commercial audio medium in the 1910s, and commercial mass production of phonograph cylinders ended in 1929)

(g) Columbia Records
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records
(founded in 1888; distributing and selling Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders; derived its name from the District of Columbia, which was its headquarters; Columbia Records co-founded CBS [Columbia Broadcasting System] in 1927 along with New York talent agent Arthur Judson, but soon cashed out of the partnership leaving only the name; Until 1989, Columbia Records had no connection to Columbia Pictures, but they have since become the music and motion picture arms of Sony)

(h) Bertelsmann Music Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann_Music_Group
(BMG; established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann; sold to Sony in 2008)
(i) Culpeper, Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpeper,_Virginia
(j) Samuel Holland Rous and Victor Talking Machine Co, The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of the Operas With Illustrations and Descriptions of Victor Opera Records. Victor Talking Machine Co (publisher), 1919.
(k) Six Brown Brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Brown_Brothers
(l) Universal Music Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Music_Group
("Universal Music" was once the music company attached to film studio Universal Pictures. Its origins go back to the formation of the American branch of Decca Records in 1934.[1] The Decca Corporation of England spun American Decca off in 1939.)
(m) The "side" in "certain Decca sides"
(n): "a recording of music"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.



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