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For June 1997...

This month: An early Sophie Tucker recording – from 1910, the Reuben Rag.

Reuben Rag

Company	Edison's National Phonograph Company
Cylinder #	10449
Category	Comic song
Title	Reuben Rag
Performed by	Sophie Tucker
Circa	December 1910
Announcement	None

Sophie Tucker (1884-1966) began her extraordinary recording career with six Edison two-minute wax recordings in 1910 and 1911. Hers was an enormous performance career: She was one of only a very few two-minute wax cylinder recording artists to later appear live on network television – an over fifty-year career!

Click here to learn more about Sophie Tucker's early performance days (courtesy of the Museum of the City of San Francisco).

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