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Title
[Black wax home recording of a group of men singing drinking songs, August 15, 1915]
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
Contributing Institution
UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection
Cylinder Audio Archive
Rights Information
copyright unknown
MP3 files of the cylinders available for download are copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California. They are licensed for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. Acknowledgments for reuse of the transfers should read "University of California, Santa Barbara Library." The original wav files (either unedited or restored) can be provided upon request for commercial or non-commercial use such as CD reissues, film/tv synchronization, use on websites or in exhibits. The University of California makes no claims or warranties as to the copyright status of the original recordings and charges a use fee for the use of the transfers. Please contact the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Research Collections for information on licensing cylinder transfers. Full contact information can be found at: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/licensing.php.
Description
Announcement at beginning: "Song, As You Like It, by the As You Like It Cast, [...], August twelfth, nineteen fifteen, As You Like It Record."
Black wax cylinder.
Place of recording likely the United States.
Performers not given.
Group of men sings comic drinking songs and cheers: "Oh, I had a little hen / and she had a wooden leg / and every morn / she laid a little egg. She's the finest little hen / that we had on the farm / and another little drink / won't do us any harm. When I am dead / don't you bury me at all / just pickle my bones / in alcohol," etc.
Also available online via the Internet.
Sung in English.
The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 361-01, Originally acquired: Bill Kocher, 2012).
Type
sound
Format
Audio
Audio cylinder
Electronic resource
Extent
1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 160.4 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier
(OCoLC)881048068
Language
English
Subject
Personal recordings

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