Billy Murray - The International Rag (Berlin) (1913)

'The International Rag' is sung by prolific recording artist Billy Murray (1877-1954).
The recording was made for Edison in New York on 23 August 1913.

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A rather polite, not to say sedate version as compared with that of Collins & Harlan. Thanks for posting.

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I don't recall having heard the Collins and Harlan version, but it certainly doesn't surprise me by reference to their usual style. I was planning to transfer a few more of their titles, so watch this space!

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@@vintagesounds3878 You'll find C&H's 'International Rag' in various places, including ruclips.net/video/CzwHFKMu5eU/видео.html. I look forward to your further postings.

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@@footlightnotes Wow! What a great rendition! Typical Collins and Harlan, of course. I have a real soft spot for the popular music of that period, and every so often I break out of my classical music mould and upload some of it, hence the recent cylinder transfers. More coming!

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@@vintagesounds3878 You're like me. I started collecting 78s when I was 8 years old (my first was a 1906 single sided Zonophone of Florrie Forde - 'What the Curate Saw'!) and then I discovered C&H when I was 16 in a cache of Victors at an Oxfam shop in Kingston-upon-Thames. 6d @. That was nearly 60 years ago!

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@willie solar A broadly similar background. I was hooked at 11, when my grandfather brought out of his shed an old gramophone, which had been hidden away there for years. He asked my grandmother to bring down some of the records that were in the sideboard in the dining room! The governor springs were broken and the record played much too fast, but recorded sound grabbed my interest and held it. That was a bit over 50 years ago. Subsequently, I was given the machine and the records (about 3 dozen), and thereafter I found out that my grandfather had the remains of his parents' cylinder collection (around 90). I managed to pick up a couple of cylinder machines and was given the records. There, I first heard Billy Williams, Florrie Forde, the National Promenade Band and the like. The collection has grown greatly over the years, and I branched out into 'heavier' music, but I still love Music Hall, light music, musical theatre and the like, and there's a reasonable amount here!