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From 1901, a musical vaudeville skit by Len Spencer - The Musical Moke.
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Len Spencer performs this popular selection from the Columbia Phonograph Company's catalog of vaudeville selections, from which customers – before the days of motion pictures and long before radio or television – could purchase various skits & specialties and then piece together their own home phonograph-based vaudeville entertainment programs.
The odd sounds at the beginning & end of the recording are artifacts from the one-at-a-time record duplicating process from the master cylinder.
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| Key | Title | Category | Performed by | Circa |
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| 10/1999 | Clancy's Prize Waltz Contest | Comic sketch | Len Spencer | 1904 |
| 10/2005 | Continuous Performances | Comic song | S. H. Dudley | 1899 |
| 09/2003 | The Dixie Rube | Descriptive Selection | Edison Military Band | 1906 |
| 06/2008 | The Golden Wedding | Vaudeville | Ada Jones & Len Spencer | 1905 |
| 01/2003 | Hebrew Vaudeville - parody on Rip Van Winkle was a Lucky Man | Hebrew monologue | Julian Rose | 1903 |
| 11/2007 | Hickory Bill | Talking & banjo | Len Spencer & Fred Van Epps | 1907 |
| 03/2005 | Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana | Vocal violin imitation | Edith Helena | 1907 |
| 07/2005 | Pat O'Brien's Automobile | Street scene | Steve Porter | 1908 |
| 09/2004 | Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink | Skating scene | Ada Jones & Len Spencer | 1907 |
| 12/2000 | The Sleigh Ride Party | Descriptive selection | The Greater New York Quartette | 1898 |
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