There is a SUPER article in today's Wall Street Journal on Vintage
Music
files on line. I knew about most but the Juneberry site and the
Internet Archive
were new to me.
They are all MP3 files which you can play on line or download to your
PC or
MP3 player. Here's the short article in it's entirely!
I'm posting to a number of places so sorry if you see it again.
Steve
July 18, 2006
Downloading Vintage Songs
July 18, 2006; Page D1
The Problem: Finding digital versions of vintage music.
The Solution: Some early popular music can be downloaded free.
The University of California, Santa Barbara's Cylinder Preservation &
Digitization Project Web site (_www.cylinders.library.ucsb.edu_
(javascript:OpenWin('http://
www.cylinders.library.ucsb.edu','','','','na+me+lo+sc+re+st+',true,0,0,
true);void('')) 1) has almost 6,600 songs. On his Juneberry78s.com
site
(_www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/index.htm_
(javascript:OpenWin('http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/
index.htm','','','','na+me+lo+sc+re+st+',true,0,0,true);void('')
) 2), music collector Tom Morrison has posted some 2,200 songs from
the
1920s and 1930s by rural Southern musicians.
The thousands of songs in the Library of Congress's American Memory
archive
include 108 recordings from Emile Berliner
(_memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlhome.html_
(javascript:OpenWin('http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/
berlhome.html','','','','na+me+lo+sc+re+st+',true,0,0,true);void(''))
3), the
inventor of the gramophone. The Library and Archives Canada Virtual
Gramophone
collection (_www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html_
(javascript:OpenWin('http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-
e.html','','','','na+me+lo+sc
+re+st+',true,0,0,true);void('')) 4) has around 5,000 pre-1940 songs.
And
the Internet Archive posts 793 songs from early 20th century 78 rpm
records
(_www.archive.org/details/78rpm_
(javascript:OpenWin('http://www.archive.org/details/
78rpm','','','','na+me+lo+sc+re+st+',true,0,0,true);void('')) 5).
-- Ian Mount
URL for this article:
_http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115319230223309530.html_
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115319230223309530.html)
Hyperlinks in this Article:
(1)
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(4)
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(5)
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(javascript:OpenWin('http://www.archive.org/details/
78rpm','','','','na+me+lo+sc+re+st+',true,0,0,true);void(''))