Cylinder of the Month
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For April 1997...
This month: A Billy Murray double feature!
- From 1908, the comic song, I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark.
-- and --
- From 1909, its humorous sequel, I Used to Be Afraid to Go Home in the Dark.
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
| Company |
Edison's National Phonograph Company
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| Cylinder # |
9780
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| Category |
Tenor solo
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| Title |
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
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| Performed by |
Billy Murray
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| Circa |
1908
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| Announcement |
"I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark, sung by Billy Murray, Edison record."
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A popular song of 1908, sung by an equally popular singer.
Billy Murray recorded dozens of comic and popular songs for Edison
for many years beginning in late 1903.
Here, we meet the wayward newlyweds, Jones, and his not-too-longsuffering
wife Mabel.
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To hear I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark —
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To hear an excerpt —
For help playing these sounds, click here.
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I Used to Be Afraid to Go Home in the Dark
| Company |
Edison's National Phonograph Company
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| Cylinder # |
10127
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| Category |
Tenor solo
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| Title |
I Used to Be Afraid to Go Home in the Dark
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| Performed by |
Billy Murray
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| Circa |
1909
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| Announcement |
None
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Just over one year later, Murray records this great sequel in which
our favorite reprobate, whose name has inexplicably changed to Joe Morgan,
suffers terribly from "that awful dark song of last year"!
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To hear I Used to Be Afraid to Go Home in the Dark —
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To hear an excerpt —
For help playing these sounds, click here.
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