Enjoy Three Minutes With the Minstrels from 1899 featuring S. H. Dudley and Arthur Collins.
Three Minutes With the Minstrels
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| Company |
Edison's National Phonograph Company
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| Cylinder # |
4705
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| Category |
Minstrels
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| Title |
Three Minutes With the Minstrels
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| Performed by |
S. H. Dudley & Arthur Collins
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| Circa |
May 1899
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| Announcement |
"Three Minutes With the Minstrels, introducing the popular song
'Break the News to Mother'. Gentlemen, be seated."
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Part of Edison's popular Minstrel series of recordings,
here we experience a highly compressed minstrel show on a brown wax cylinder.
The featured song Break the News to Mother was a hit song from 1897 about
casualties of war.
Despite the title's claim, the recording provides just 2½ minutes with the minstrels . . .
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Three Minutes With the Minstrels
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