Unknown home recording Brown Wax Record No. 7

[Edisonfan]

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQpq-txFbdf8cG9x_Szm7Gw

[bfinan11]

I agree that this is O Tannenbaum -- I wonder if a German-American family got their first phonograph for Christmas 189x and everyone at the party each made a record for posterity? Especially in those days it seemed most people had songs and poems memorized (where else would the music come from, before records?) and ready for such an event.

And judging just by how many part-books have survived from that era (and the difficulty of much of the sheet music too), I wouldn't be so sure even that the quartet was professional, while I don't know what they're singing either, it wouldn't surprise me if they were just the more talented singers of the family.

[Edisonfan]

I thought so!

—Paul