Stephen Foster,1850 78 RPM, old Gramophone, { De camptown Races, }

[Richardddoobies]

Sorry! The first recordings were not made until 1878 and flat discs didnt gain popularity till the 20th century.

[canonsburgman]

I am from Pittsburgh, birthplace of Stephan Foster. Every year they have a Stephan Foster Day at the Allegheny Cemetary where he is buried here in Lawrenceville. Many groups come and perform his music. Too bad he lived in poverty, ripped off by New Your Publishers.

[bigbowser101]

any word on the artist?

[Parlophonic]

I expect you'll find that the song dates from 1850, not the recording.

[joshgura]

no gramophone records were made until after 1900, and 78 speed gramophone records were not made by either columbia or victor until around 1925. 1850 was 25 years before any audio recording was made.

[mujawooja]

lovely

[eleventhdr]

this is the way it realy was and not so very long ago when their was blackface and blacks were called darkies this i do know because i research it it is still out their but it is fading because revisiost think they can rewite history well they can not this is the way it reallt was once not to vry long ago ah well!

[ellollio]

@eleventhdr ...sound like your ranting, but cant really see what your getting at...technology, naturally progresses and the consumer is presented with and in turn embraces it . whats your point?

[eleventhdr]

i do rresearch this it is still out their when you can still find it i know!

[lmdw]

Oh I really enjoyed this ! i grew up in the South in the 1940s and this sound was still around a lot. My parents hired a

maid/ Nanny for me named Mary; she

worked for us for 40 years. She often

sang this song for me while she ironed.

When she died I couldn't go to her funeral because I am White and she was Black.

When I got old too, I hunted for her grave, and I put a nice marker on it.

Linda, Ausitn, Tx

[rapperchileno]

This is from the 1920s around

[egapnala65]

Gramaphone recording started in the 1870's I always thought.

[rapperchileno]

this recording is from the 1920s around

disc records started in the 1890s

[RedCrayon45]

i wonder who recorded this

[tomoir3]

So much win