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My father had purchased some cylinders locally for me to sell, I took them to Union back in 2012. I sold two original home recordings, recorded sometime between 1915, and the 1920's. The song America I love you, a guitar and mandolin recording. I knew that David Giovannoni had donated the home recordings from his collections to the UCSB cylinder archive. I was surprised to find the home recording that I once owned. It is very nice to hear it played back on the Archeophone. It is a two minute recording, I am very happy how it turned out, It is a very loud and full home recording, of instruments that usually were not recorded much commercially, and this was most likely recorded with a regular stock Edison recorder. The blanks were Edison blanks as they had double spiral cores.


Alternate Title:
America, I love you
Notes:
Brown wax cylinder.
Place of recording likely the United States.
Guitar and mandolin duet.
Language:
Sung in English.
Collection:
The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 186-01, Originally acquired: Union Phonograph Show 2012).
Personal Name:
Gottler, Archie, 1896-1959,
Genre:
Personal recordings.
Original Item Information:
Cylinder 12997—Special Coll., Performing Arts
Durable URL:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder12997




http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... inder12997

Recordings like these help make family history research more interesting.