The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

I am still finally catching up on all of my e-mail and private messages (quite a few of which were from last week while I was traveling for business in San Francisco, and frantically trying to get this back up and as functional as possible from the west coast), and remembered the kind e-mail that beaumonde sent to me.

So I wanted to share the image from that with you.

Hopefully this thread can be expanded to include sheet music covers (and other images) by other artists, as well.

I also wanted to thank everyone for their kindness and expressed gratitude so far—I really felt supported and appreciated for all of the effort I have put into both this site and the previous one, so thank you all! You’re wonderful, and you make this forum what it is.

Now to go reply to that e-mail...and my PMs...and...

Your friendly internet daemon,

MordEth

Dave

Dave—another great image! The quality on the art for a lot of these is quite impressive, especially when you think of the effort that went into doing something then versus all the tools we have at our disposal now.

Here is another image that I would like to share, because I enjoyed helping John record it for inclusion (twice) among his YouTube videos:

If you were interested in hearing it, here is Edison (DD) 50585 R, “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (Jaan Kenbrovin & John William Kellette) — Medley Waltz (Introducing “Till We Meet Again”), as performed by the Tuxedo Dance Orchestra (recorded June 19, 1919) and played on John’s H-19 (Heppelwhite).

Also, here is Columbia A6104 [49592]. “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” Medley Waltz, Introducing: 1—Somehow You're Just My Style, 2—Loving Eyes (Kenbrovin & Kellette, 1—Howard, 2—Foote), as performed by the Columbia Orchestra (Charles A. Prince, Director). [First issued circa early 1919.] This recording was played on John’s 1916 VV-X, and is an instrumental recording.

I greatly enjoyed both versions of this song, and hopefully other people will as well.

— MordEth

(Note: The image above was borrowed for non-commercial educational purposes from Duke University’s sheet music collection. Be sure to check out the six pages of it they have there, both in 72 DPI [as shown above] and in 150 DPI [more suitable for printing].)

I have gotten a lot of my music from the Lester S. Levy Collection (http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/) and am very happy with the quality. I also just search "sheet music collection" and "sheet music library" on Google and many good collections come up. My latest tune I'm learning on accordion (Canadian Capers) came from the Levy Collection. Great stuff!

Here's a scan from my collection that I happened to have avilable right now. There are plenty of more to be scanned in the future.

The cover photo shows the great blue blower William "Red" McKenzie, also one of my favourite vocalists.
Fredrik

This one is one of my favorites, I cheated and got a little lazy and used the scanner, which cut of the E in his last name, but his image is still here as is his faithful nag Spark Plug. I played the song on my fathers old Edison Baby Console when I was a kid and never got tired of it . "No it isn't Douglas Fairbanks who the Ladies Rave about !! When he arrives, who makes the wives toss all their husbands out? Why its Barney Google with his Goo Goo Googly Eyes!!Barney Google, Had a wife three times his size. She sued Barney for Divorce, now he's living with his horse, Barney Google, with his Goo Goo Googly Eyes!!"

From my Sheet Music Collection, probably one of the most famous pre 1920 Songs written by a Black Composer, Shelton Brooks, who also wrote Sophie Tucker's signature song "Some of these Days". "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" was composed in 1917.

Here's the sheet music for one of Paul Whiteman's earliest hits. Ironically, by the time this was published two of the song's co-composers - Gus Mueller and Buster Johnson - had already left the orchestra and are not in the band photo.
Did you ever see Whiteman as slim as this before?

Fredrik

Fredrik wrote:Did you ever see Whiteman as slim as this before?

Fredrik,

I was just thinking the same thing, because I viewed the full-size image before I read the bottom of your post...

My first thought was that it must be the youngest and slimmest that I have ever seen him pictured.

That is a really great scan, and thank you for sharing it with us!

— MordEth

Recently member solophoneman shared a youtube recording of Dinah by Fess Williams and His Orchestra. So I thought I would share some sheet music with a picture of Fess Williams band on the cover.