Percy Grainger ethnographic wax cylinders
What shall we do with a drunken sailor
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Type
sound
Duration
00:01:03
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
1LL0010300
Recording date
1906-07-24
Is part of (Collection)
Percy Grainger Collection
Recording locations
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Performers
Rosher, Charles (singer, male)
Recordist
Grainger, Percy
Abstract
Audio digitised from a collection of lacquer discs created by the Library of Congress in 1940 from Grainger's original wax cylinder recordings.
Description
Library of Congress disc number: 58B; Grainger's cylinder number: 149; Grainger's melody number: 154; Roud index number: 322; Performance note: two verses only; Recording note: moderate/loud surface noise.
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