Cylinder of the Month
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For July 1999 . . .
This month:
From 1910, a classic recording – Ada Jones introduces By the Light of the Silvery Moon.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
| Company |
Edison's National Phonograph Company
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| Cylinder # |
10362
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| Category |
Sentimental song
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| Title |
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
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| Performed by |
Ada Jones
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| Circa |
May 1910
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| Announcement |
None
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Dual "firsts":
The era's first-lady for popular songs, Ada Jones,
renders probably the first commercial recording of this now classic song.
Click here
to learn more about this song's colorful composer Gus Edwards
(courtesy of Murray Pfeffer's
The Tunesmiths Database).
Click here
to read a fascinating exposé concerning the song's lyricist Edward Madden
and his Madden Music Company
(courtesy of Phil Milstein's
American Song-Poem Music Archives).
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To hear By the Light of the Silvery Moon —
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