Popular songs from 1890-1902 medley on player piano

You can download a MIDI file of this piano roll from this page:
http://soft.rosinstrument.com/lib/Technical/Mobile_Melodies/Piano/set1-ps100-...
(it's the top of the list)

This was a sort of "oldies compilation" made in the 1920s of songs people remembered from the 1890s (and one from 1902).

The songs included here are:

Just One Girl
music by Lyn Udall; lyrics by Karl Kennett
1898

The Sidewalks of New York
music by Charles B. Lawlor; lyrics by James W. Blake
1894

Sweet Rosie O'Grady
by Maude Nugent
1896

Little Annie Rooney
by Michael Nolan
1890

In the Good Old Summer Time
music by George Evans; lyrics by Ren Shields
1902

Daisy Bell
by Harry Dacre
1892

Two Little Girls in Blue
by Charles Graham
1893

After the Ball
by Charles K. Harris
1891

Of course, apart from the first tune, these are just the choruses of these songs.

QRS 2035 Popular Songs of Other Days
Lee S. Roberts

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1890s
• gay nineties
• gay 90s
• player piano
• piano
• roll
• piano roll
• medley

[kathrynhansen100]

I have a player piano WELLSWORTH 1918 UPRIGHT GRAND. My favorite roll is April Showers. Mine squeeked like yours, I oiled it tiny drop on everything that moves with metal that I could see. Thank you for singing, I always do to my rolls too.

[Keeper1st]

@kathrynhansen100 Be careful with using oil. It can do damage if it gets on the wrong things. A lot of the "lubrication" is meant to be done with felt and powders. In this case, the squeaking was a missing piece of felt.

[wingbk]

history........song.. wow~^^

[mettalliko]

SOUNDS WAY BETTER THAN MY NEIGHBOR

[limous4]

@JetJagga 2 persons.......yeeeeesss i was the number tow ^^

[shaniring]

f'n amazing! I would like to express my sincere thank you for playing those songs. They are "eternally" stylish and they'll forever be "cool' songs. I mean, even apart from the amazing piano playing and the tunes themselves, the lyrics really define the popular/common mental state of the average person back then. These are timeless songs that will never die. The music also "says" it all too. You can totally 'feel' America from 100+ years ago. It's all so dynamic and "new" in an old way :)

[kosboot]

Gee, it doesn't have to be so fast!

[JetJagga]

1 person has no soul.

[theguyof1900]

I remember all of these songs espesaley just one girl in 1898. i recoreded a wax Cylinder of a minstrel singing that with a quartet called The Hayden quartet witch i wasent a member i was just in the minstrel doing the first part ahh the good old days.

[TheAlbatrossa]

oh wow!

[Keeper1st]

@NewDisneySucksHard There are eight songs in this medley, and certainly many recordings have been made of those songs over the years. But to say "original recording" doesn't really make sense. In those days, songs were sold as sheet music and piano rolls originally -- not as recordings.