George Johnson - The Whistling Coon - 1891 (The first recording by an African-American)
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- George Johnson's song Whistling Coon was one of the most popular of the Coon songs of the 1850-90s. While the records and the imagery that goes along with them are offensive, these are pioneering African-American recordings and songs. There are a number of virtually lost African-American songwriters from this period who tend to be left out of the Great American Song Book. Virtually none of these recordings are available today, although at one point 1 in 15 new records released by the major phonograph companies (Edison, Victor, Columbia) were coon music.
The amazing thing about the earliest of Johnson's recordings is that each one was unique. Each record was recorded and cut ON THE SPOT, so he had to do each take perfectly, and was then paid for the session. He made a decent living, but there weren't any copyright laws, or even any recorded industry at this point. It's said he did this song 56 times in one day.
There were comic songs that offended almost every ethnic group, although to be fair, African-Americans portrayal on the sheet music and the art works are pretty horrific. If you dig deep enough, you can find examples (like the ones on my walls:-) that contain images that arent so offense, so you can appreciate it. Johnson's other big song "The Laughing Song" eventually become known around the world and was a hit around the world for whites and blacks alike.It was also a hit in 1947 by Phil Harris sans the offensive lyrics.
Johnson was born to freed slaves, sometime in the early 1840s. He was an actual slave in Virginia, but was freed in 1853 and lived through the Civil War. He drifted to New York in the 1870s and attracted small bits of money whistling on ferry boats for a living, which is how he was discovered and recorded. Johnson led a controversial life and was also accused of killing and murdering his alcoholic girlfriend. His trial was quite a sensation in the early 1900s. I didnt feel like transcribing the words. I will later.
Only true 90s kids remember this.
+Cyrus Metcalfe like if ur listening in 1898!
+the madcap laughs I'm in 1892 Old chum!
MY future grand father gave me his DC.
+Cyrus Metcalfe That's flipping hilarious
lol only the 90s kids will remember this LOLOLOL
hahahah yes lad
This song is currently older than 100% of human population
true and it and its somehow better than todays music
so is alot of stuff
Correction, 99% I’m still kicking!!
Johnson died in january 1914, so to even have been living at the same time as him you'd have to be over 110.
we should remember that the sound quality was probably way better back in the day. It just sounds shitty because its over 100 years old
Michael Reed I think it sounded shitty in the day but because there was nothing to compare it with it was great. Its great that these recordings have survived. Much appreciated.
Ron Deegan thats another reason yes
+MT Well disc has aged so the quality probably has worsened
+Michael Reed The quality hasn't declined simply from age, more so from being played scores of times, Every time the cylinder is played it loses a microscopic amount of surface where the ridges and grooves are, smoothing them out with the resulting loss in audio reproduction.
+dhy5342 I forgot media like records get worn
This is AMAZING- I'm so happy that technology has progressed enough to be able to save such landmarks in time... History, art & true human emotion.
Wonderful, and incredibly bizarre, being able to hear a representative of a Society that no
longer exists... a true voice from the distant past... how different things were back then.
And it bends the mind even further if you comprehend that Queen Victoria was on the throne
at the time and WWI was 20 years away, and yet it would be 30 years before commercial
cine flicks moved from mute, to 'Talkies'. Talk about hearing the dead speak, its a one-way
seance!
As for this, we now have all the technology needed to make this 'come to life', as though it
were recorded nowadays. The speed could be rectified, the subtle variations ironed out,
the wow-and-flutter corrected and the surface noise removed with compression, filters and
attenuators, The voice and instruments could be fully enhanced by layer-cake dubbing so
as to both raise and broaden the frequency response through graphic manipulation that'd
add to the flat 'black & white' tone of the original recording, and stereo could be introduced.
Yes, it could be done and would take a lot of time and effort but then, perhaps it would lose
a substantial part of its charm and identity in the process, - but I'd still like to hear both
versions all the same if it were possible.
Thank you for the upload.
Mark. Second Side Up Radio.
+Mark Talbot, a technology that came out in the past few years that could at least recover much of the original recording quality without further damaging the priceless cylinder is the laser stylus. I know only of laser turntables, but the concept should be easily adaptable to a cylinder player. They’re pretty expensive, but well worth it for this purpose of preserving valuable audio history that exists only in these fragile forms.
Despite a laser being involved, it is _not_ digital (though the recordings are then usually digitized). The cylinder or old 78RPM disc or whatever is still analog in nature, and the laser itself doesn’t change that. The laser is a low-powered read-only red laser that in no way harms the grooves, unlike even the best diamond stylii no matter how carefully balanced it is and how light the touch. Also unlike even the best physical stylii, a laser beam can be focused tight to get deep down into the grooves well below where any playback stylus has ever touched, and retrieve the _pristine original_ sound quality from the cut grooves that have not been worn down by contact with physical stylii.
In my opinion, no physical stylus should ever be permitted to touch one of these valuable cylinders or 78RPM discs ever again. Lasers only for any future recordings, be they analog or digitized.
Technologically amazing. I wish it would have gotten destroyed in that big fire a few years ago on the Paramount lot.
Unfortunately, Johnson's words are nearly unintelligible, but the listener can tell that it's definitely a human voice.
frisco21 you don’t say?
The only reason why the lyrics are unintelligible is because it was recorded 13 decades ago, back when recording was ONLY 3 YEARS OLD!!!!
0:09 this part I think I can make out what he says which is "we will now sing the whistling coon, as the evidence a phonograph works."
here a link for the song with lyrics ruclips.net/video/-WBzIscm0TQ/видео.html
there is a higher quality one here - ruclips.net/video/hDoCaeVnNy4/видео.html
A 130-year-old recording. Sooner or later people will look back at our videos the same way we just did to this gentleman.
Exacto!
I doubt it; this recording is an extremely rare piece of treasure. Unfortunately it was mostly lost as you can hear (these recordings allegedly used to sound much better back in the day) which puts an enormous barrier between us and him, which might be part of why this is so interesting.
Of our time there are millions of extremely high quality photo's, videos and recordings being made every single day and uploaded to the internet where they will be preserved perfectly.
I don't know how to feel about this, it's hard to imagine watching a video and finding out later that it was recorded 600 years ago, I wonder what it will be like for the people in the future.
No one cares about your videos put your phone away
😮whaaaat u right 😆
I think a physical recording probably has a better chance of surviving 130 years than a digital thing like a RUclips video. Is Google even going to be around in 130 years, still paying to run the servers where all these videos are stored? I guess people could download videos and keep them on a hard drive, but even a hard drive isn't designed to last for a century. Keeping internet stuff from being lost will require an active preservation effort. There's already a lot of stuff that's gone forever, like music people uploaded to MySpace.
can not believe we have the privilege of hearing this in 2014..! Amazing. Thanks for posting!
How about 2017? this is just NUTS! this guy went though the CIVIL WAR and was a slave! very very BACK THEN! holy cow!
Hailey Williams - my very own sentiments as I just wrote...
Wonderful, and incredibly bizarre, being able to hear a representative of a Society that no
longer exists... a true voice from the distant past... how different things were back then.
And it bends the mind even further if you comprehend that Queen Victoria was on the throne
at the time and WWI was 20 years away, and yet it would be 30 years before commercial
cine flicks moved from mute, to 'Talkies'. Talk about hearing the dead speak, its a one-way
seance!
As for this, we now have all the technology needed to make this 'come to life', as though it
were recorded nowadays. The speed could be rectified, the subtle variations ironed out,
the wow-and-flutter corrected and the surface noise removed with compression, filters and
attenuators, The voice and instruments could be fully enhanced by layer-cake dubbing so
as to both raise and broaden the frequency response through graphic manipulation that'd
add to the flat 'black & white' tone of the original recording, and stereo could be introduced.
Yes, it could be done and would take a lot of time and effort but then, perhaps it would lose
a substantial part of its charm and identity in the process, - but I'd still like to hear both
versions all the same if it were possible.
Thank you for the upload.
Mark. Second Side Up Radio.
Rather than do all of that, I’d love to hear what these would sound like when recorded from a laser cylinder player. I know that laser turntables exist and have for years, so laser cylinder players should as well, and if they don’t, someone should make one. This would allow for recording without further wearing the grooves of the irreplaceable cylinder, but also the laser can reach deeper into the groove than any stylus could, and thus retrieve the pristine orignal-cut sound. DIgital enhancements such as you describe could then be applied to that, but even without that, you’d hear closer to what the original recordings sounded like before they got worn down.
Michael DeTorrice Give it 10 years, gone.
i cant belive george johnson had the privlige to do this
The early recorded songs sound like there's a plastic bag in the background.
Junior Blitz Lol, now all I can imagine is someone in the background just messing with a plastic bag as the artist sang
It's because this melody was recorded in a wax cylinder.
The movement of the needle into the cylinder makes that sound.
Someones scrunching up some tin foil in the shower
true
Or a shopping cart.
This is from an early '90's brown wax cylinder. Whistling solos were popular on the early phonograph as they recorded well. The recording when it was new was probably better sounding, brown wax cylinders (especially those from the early '90's) are very susceptable to mold, this is what produces some of the scratchy sound.
Very interesting...
Bruce Stinchcomb i had one but it broke :(
I was born back in '90. I remember it well. :P
@@SouthwesternEagle 1890 not 1990
@@strobx1 It was a joke.
Obviously this an historical and cultural gem of huge importance but CAN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WHISTLER THIS MAN IS
125 years old...... bruh
:O! jeez!!
Slightly past an eighth-millennium old now...
13 decades old boi
130 years now my guy
Ikesters Here, let me fix that.
Done!
@@acrunchypeanut4467 Almost 130
I'm 144 years old and remember when this song first came out. It was around the time of my 17th birthday, me and my brothers were ploughing the fields in the sunny meadows of Queens, New York when we saw a coloured gentleman whistling this merry old tune. Ah! Those halcyon days!
You're right. I'm 145, as it was my birthday last week!
Great! I'm just off to see my grandfather!
Hey!!! I used to babysit you when I retired from my job as a researcher into possible human use of fire. (Which I invented after patting the first dog )
I was born in 1791 and I remember this song on my 100th birthday.
Now I am 229 years old and I still remember this song.
im 1020 years old, i was born on January 1st, 1000 AD
Fuck man, I love my people! This truly is beautiful man
YOU RUINED AN OTHERWISE VERY GOOD COMMENT WITH A SINGLE WORD.
This is history. Well done.
HISTORY: Keep the best...bury the rest. [sarcasm]
All history isn’t good. The nazis are history too. The KKK is history too.
@@stonedog23 and we should teach that unfiltered, and from the view of the nations who opposed it, and why so many were dumb enough to support it…. Evil exists because we’re too lazy to stop it or because we’re too dumb to see it for what it is.
You make a great point
According to Guthrie Ramsey, Professor of Music at Pennsylvania University, Johnson was a 'body servant' (valet) to a slave owner. He used to accompany the slave owner's son who was taking flute lessons. 'Of course nobody was going to give the slave-boy a flute so he had to learn the tunes by whistling'. After emancipation he was heard whistlling in the streets and went on to be recorded by the New Jersey Phonograph Company. 'Degrading lyrics but they saw 'gold in them there hills''. (adapted from BBC 'Who Sold The Soul?').
No wonder he sounds like a Charlie Chaplin film..
holy shit, this was recorded DURING the wild west cowboy era
Which is why it sounds like saloon music.
@@COINsimp2024 exactly what i thought, especially the piano
Pretty much towards the end of Wild West Era.
The crazy thing about George Johnson is that back in the 1890s he had to record each individual record. Keep in mind that tens of thousands of these were sold.
They record off a record
They copied the record. As a captain I thought that would be easy for you.
Yeah... I doubt that's true. Maybe they had to rerecord it a couple of times though, since the mother discs did wear out over the years. I recall Bing Crosby did have to rerecord some of his most famous songs, like White Christmas. In the 40's the problem was eliminated when magnetic tape came along, of course.
Como Daniel Johnston :0
it is mind blowing we are listening to someone who lived over 100 years ago!!
Like many of his contemporaries in the cylinder era. George Johnson had to record this track numerous times, as the resultant masters could only produce a limited number of copies. As such, there are a number of versions of this track out there that vary slightly from one another. He was a magnificent vocalist, and by many accounts, a world class gentleman.
Wonderful just wonderful.
And an a-one wife killer!!
@@Billy219 No you're racist
A human voice and a piano player from 133 tears ago 😊 ! A treasure 😢
🥲😥
I hate people who say they were born in the wrong generation, if you do not like the music of now, just listen to the old music and stop bothering
This music is good but no the best song of the history
they're saying it because they couldn't live in that time and experience that time.
This whistling tune needs to feature in a horror film.
Yep!
It can’t feature in any film. Look at the title. Too many snowflakes would melt
A undead film
What about in the _Counjuring_
@@fallfast5029 👎
THAT IS AWESOME!!!!! That recording is pretty good for 100 something years old
It’s amazing that Johnson doesn’t appear to actually be offended while singing this.
Most of the earliest cylinders (late 1880s through 1900 or so) don't seem to have held up well. But the sonic quality from the ones from the early 1900s seem to have improved exponentially. That said, I am more than grateful for whatever survives from these earliest recordings. George W. Johnson, Steve Porter, Arthur Collins, John Philip Sousa, Vess Ossman, etc. Great stuff!
better than mumble rappers
Also better than those rappers who don't mumble.
@@onemoremisfit ratio
@@onemoremisfit Yes.
@@EduardoSalamanca1960 Go to Twitter please.
Also the name of one of the most despicable game antagonists.
Fr I wish I could be in the 1890s and get tuberculosis and shit. ): god why did I have to be born in the generation w like hospitals and mostly equal rights for all fuck this planet
127 years later in the 21st century, over 340,000 people from everywhere on the planet, still listen to this recording...
For context if we still used wax cylinders to listen to music he would have to record this one 300,000 times as you couldmy reproduce recordings at the time
This was an amazing recording and a very early Edison master cylinder record for 1891. I had obtained it from the late Ron Kramer in 1979. Rick Wilkins
A great Joy to hear , just lovely to hear music that is soft to the ear.
This is the first rap song.
woah, racist much?
What Is That every rap song doesn’t have the n word dummy
You right kinda
@@aileen9553 1970s sugar hill gang
So ur saying that it's rap just bc he's black? That's racist
I will also listen to this when it turns 200 years old in 2091!!
This video was uploaded 10 years ago and the music was recorded 128 years ago. Well I'm from the 2019s.
"attracted small bits of money whistling on ferry boats for a living" .. imagine how cool that would be... youre on a ferry boat, and ... all the sudden ... this incredible world-class whistler entertains you for a few coins as you cross! I wished I'd lived in the 1890s.
Odo me too man... i just love the 1800s
Imagine being not considered as anything more than an animal or object to those white folk you have to beg for coins to survive
@@hughsnuts7318 Virtue-sniveler
Hey Odo ; You would consider snivelling as a virtue due to your diet of men's genitive organs and fluids causing emissions from your nose and eyes .
@@hughsnuts7318 What this soy-man, who combs the web all-day long looking for fertile threads to commandeer so that he can ooze his soy-guts, tactically denies is that that's what professional entertainment is and always has been 1890s... or 2020s. Oh ... and display his PhD-level knowledge of orifice mis-use.
the audio aint clear but this is FAR Better than the crap they play on the top 40 radio in 2016
Do they still have top 40 radio?
YESSSSSSSSSS
I'm using a good set of headphones to listen to this song, and even they can't help with this song.
Oh, and most of today's music is shit. I agree with you on that, Chris.
This recording appears to be a copy of an 1891 wax cylinder recording, that, most likely no longer exists in a playable form. Even so, the copy was played heavily. We should be fortunate to be able to hear Johnson's whistling (which is pretty skillful), let alone his singing, and the piano playing in the background, which is almost unlistenable after 126 years.
Friend: i listen old music from '70
Me: hold my grammaphone
Friend: I like spice girls, Omigod you also like 90s music yay!
Me: I like 1890s music
Love your Video! Thanks for posting this great Music! The Blues, Soul, Reggae and Funk are the best Music of all Time! Thanks again!
How amazing to hear this. I am going to find out more about this man.
Things like this really humanize history. They were here on earth at one point just like you and me.
Elder people in 1940s should have said this was real music, not the "weird great band music" of that time hehehehe.
"this is real music, not that bing crosby and frank sinatra shit you kids listen to nowadays"
Dear chronological snobs:
Before you can be great you've got to be good; before you can be good you've got to be bad; but before you can be bad you've got to try.
Why be ashamed of this?
Ward Payne facts
Many thanks for posting this very rare record!!!!!!!
God bless this man Rock Rap and.country in all one song he was smarter than anyone ever
@@aileen9553 where did you hear the thing about gwj being gay and fellow singer dan w quinn hating him for being black? i'd like to know some sources of that
Still listening 2016!!!
back in the day this was my frand i was 100 years old back in 1890s im 561 now i was born in 1432 this that real music
and still haven't learned how to spell friend.
How nice that someone has saved these early recordings. They are historical works regardless of their content and losing them would be disastrous.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for uploading this gem. It's such an important part of whistling history, in fact one of the earliest recordings. He was a great whistler - very much in tune and quite technical.
I LOVE old sound recordings. They're spooky time machines that pull you back into another era. And yes, it was another time, with very different attitudes, that allowed a title like this, but those were the standards of the era.. Sound recording has improved just a tad, and so have our attitudes, I hope.
Wonderful, and incredibly bizarre, being able to hear a representative of a Society that no
longer exists... a true voice from the distant past... how different things were back then.
And it bends the mind even further if you comprehend that Queen Victoria was on the throne
at the time and WWI was 20 years away, and yet it would be 30 years before commercial
cine flicks moved from mute, to 'Talkies'. Talk about hearing the dead speak, its a one-way
seance!
As for this, we now have all the technology needed to make this 'come to life', as though it
were recorded nowadays. The speed could be rectified, the subtle variations ironed out,
the wow-and-flutter corrected and the surface noise removed with compression, filters and
attenuators, The voice and instruments could be fully enhanced by layer-cake dubbing so
as to both raise and broaden the frequency response through graphic manipulation that'd
add to the flat 'black & white' tone of the original recording, and stereo could be introduced.
Yes, it could be done and would take a lot of time and effort but then, perhaps it would lose
a substantial part of its charm and identity in the process, - but I'd still like to hear both
versions all the same if it were possible.
Thank you for the upload.
Mark. Second Side Up Radio.
People so rude smh he is trying to record a song and the entire time someone it opening a bag of chips in the background
He's riding on a train as well
Who can say who the first black man was to record his voice. But this is certainly one of the earliest commercial recordings of a black preformer. He recorded up to as late as 1910 maybe. I had an original copy of the sheet music. Copyright 1889! And I sold it too cheap.
I can remember whistling was a regular form of entertainment back 60-70 years ago. In fact Bing Crosby was pretty good at it. Wish they could re-produce these historical gems.
Really?...did it accompany clog-dancing, do you know?
I remember as a child, hearing retired Men whistling as they walked around casually. I particularly remember a workman coming to our house who had an excellent Vibrato to his whistle. So good, I've never forgotten it! This would be around 1975.
+MultiMrPhill People were happier back then. This was before liberal thinking became so prevalent in American society. Now, there's a lot less to be happy about and "glumness" is the feeling of the day. Too bad! Whistling once was an uplifting art form. It's rapidly disappearing from existence.
Back then, if a black man like Mr. Johnson looked a white man in the eye, he could easily have been lynched by a mob of whites. I'm sure you would have just loved those wonderful old days of yore!
Listening to it in 2017
Heartbreaking and fascinating at the same time. Wow... Thanks for sharing this piece of history.
Back then EVERYONE who put work into this song and contributed to it had this set as their main objective. Now they’re all dead and we can still listen to it in 2022.
HE IS VERY DESERVING OF ALL RESPECT AND ACCOLADES. A TRUE PIONEER!!!
@@aileen9553 I FIRST HEARD ABOUT MR JOHNSON IN A 1986 BOOK CALLED " POP MEMORIES" BY JOEL WHITBURN. HE WAS A BORN ARTIST WHO COULD ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE OF HIS RACE WERE TREATED ABOMINABLY. WE NEED A BIOGRAPHY..LIKE WHEN BESSIE SMITH WAS REDISCOVERED.
FIRST MIXTAPE HANDED OUT ON DA STREETS
That bitin' ass clown Catfish Washington tryna drop "The Tap Dancing Spook" two months later...
Better than Kanye West.
Even Vanilla Ice is better than Kanye West! And he was shite!
Jim Steele yessss
You can simply record your own farting sounds and it will be much better than Kanye West
Easy oleman, I respect and share your hate to modern trash but those sixties-fifties unique men were the best. They showed the way music must be, while Johnson has set a several records and will never be forgotten, listening to him like reading a book, a lot of pleasure. But talking about music it's surely 50-60 and maybe 70, no more.
If you think Kanye West is shit, you either a) never listened to a Kanye West album (which are amazing by the way) and just trying too hard to fit in or b) your tastes are completely horrid and should never be considered valid in any context ever.
I smiled while listening to this...its truly amazing when you were born in the 20th century and hearing this from the late 1800s is mezmerizing because its so new and ancient. You dont rly kno what they sounded like.
122 years old!
Why can’t music be this good anymore??
Billy Murray fan Certainly. Music is no more.
Thanks for the history in the description!
Great piece of history...Thank you 👍👍
Culture imposes its own rules to satisfy the zeitgeist (spirit of the day).
Labeling something as offensive while listing to a golden piece of history is how revisionism happens.
Please give George Johnson the credit he is due for being a credited talent who placed his performance on record using a brand new technology.
Johnson was a pioneer, it is unfair to him to superimpose anyone's attitude as an overriding issue to his accomplishments.
I prefer this to Tupac or Snoop Dogg anytime. At least this fellow had some talent.
Buddyroe Ginocchio good point.
You wake up 3:30 AM and hear this song, what you gonna do?
Yeeeah shake that booty
we're hearing someone from 126 years ago (as of 2017). how crazy is that?
We can't forget this timeless music it's 2019 y'all.... oh yeah I'm a 80s baby
I find this post very interesting in many directions... although we see this as slanderous, it is actually praising the artist. It is a wonderful song, done very well, and its obviously aimed at the (white) general public. A masterpiece of American music, a great slice of history, and a wonderful post... Thank you
A part of music history recovered, never forgotten, to be taught to all generations. Thank you Raresoul.
Mr. George Johnson made "recording history" with this song.
I am glad that this song is around to a least create a
dialogue and keep it going so that we should never forget that this song
is what it is-a part of "recording history". Regardless of how he is perceived.
I have to say. My jaw dropped when I saw in the title that this song was recorded 122 years ago in 1891. What this man did, was the beginning of the music industry. Although, the sound isn't so great, and you can hardly hear him, it is what it was. They didn't have the technology to record music like we do now, that was the beginning of audioally recording music. Mr. Johnson is the pioneer of the music industry. He paved the way for all artist, including todays pop stars to do what they do.
132 years now lol
I remember this, i was only 8 years old... A long time ago, i have 133 years old.
lol yeah right
The Dazzling Dolphin
Was a beautiful time :).
Dash Stream yep
That's the best description I've ever seen on a youtube video.
The instrumental melody of this song got resurrected as "The Domino Polka", complete with a stylized dance step.
This is awesome! a hundred years ago and yet time stands still for us for a moment.
If you think about it, this is quite impressive for its time
we was bumpin this in a club one night on black history month
your username wtf?? XD
Beautiful!
I agree! Old stuff brings back beautiful memories
I think I can hear some lyrics, at 0:22, "Oh I've seen in my time ??? Some very funny folks ??? Of all I know,"
Idk what he’s saying but in the start to me it sounds like he’s saying “whistling coon thats how a phonograph works”
J'aime le son et les craquements du vynil et surtout de cet enregistrement merci beaucoup pour cette sacré découverte 😉
Who is listening in 2019?
Me
V-Котэ not me... it’s 2012 for me.
2020
History buffs
Come on, I can't be the only one blasting this on my way to work?
We are listening to a real former slave sing, this man lived through slavery and the civil war.
Otakun The vegan Non citizen to citizen
This song was huge and sold in Michael Jackson numbers for its day. Johnson died penniless.
Cool story bro
~40,000 =/= 105,000,000 tho
Damn hip hops really changed over the years.
I’m 14 and I feel 130 listening to this
Is The Mic Still On brought me here
Same
Ayyyy
Idk why but I love songs that are distorted as fuck
Yo who else pre-ordered the album
No thanks, I just wanna buy the maxi single with the remixes hehehe.
Oh how great the first song ever recorded by an african american is also the scariest song ever
Nah, try atmospheric black metal
Earliest rendition of Darude - Sandstorm sang by a Black-man
+hereLiesThisTroper Dank
Wow, over 100 years old!
Dios lo tenga en su santa gloria.
Loud and clear for 133 years old!
this is beautiful.
I agree!
Each record was cut individually.. that's amazing. Imagine having to do a take for every pressing of a record
This is most likely a pantographic dub. They could make somewhere like 20 cylinders from one master recording using this method.
Thanks for posting!
Aww, God Bless him😌❤
This man's a legend, He seemed really nice.
@Niko The Greaser You on some straight BS. Apart from the slurs? You can’t separate the slurs from this song, it makes it what it is, an extremely painful song to listen to. It compares a black man to a baboon for gawd sake.
Say what you will about the audio quality. That whistling is the real deal. I'm impressed bigtime.