"The Very Best Historic Voices" (This CD is no longer available.)
(25 Rare Recordings From Some Of The Most Important People At The Turn The 20th Century)
I hope you won't mind my hawking my wares here a bit, but it really is a good deal for everybody. I've been collecting and restoring old historical public domain recordings (mostly speeches) for a number of years. Last year I finally decided to come out with a CD of what I thought were likely the best of the bunch. Individual tracks from the CD can be bought as MP3 downloads in the usual places (Amazon, CDBaby Napster etc.) And those who aren't interested in buying the CD or MP3's will still be able to at least hear short excerpts here from each speaker on the disc.
This collection of historic recordings is in the public domain to the best of my knowledge. I've done my best to track down any copyright holders, and as of this moment I've not been able to find any claimants. Copyright laws are not without loopholes however, and even the British National Library has been forced to remove CD's from their catalogues due to copyright infringement a time or two. Having said all that, as far as I'm concerned, the purchaser of this CD is granted permission to use any of the works therein for any purpose whatever so long as it relates to a work of art. This includes movie documentaries, school projects, televised programming, or most anything else you can think of.
What you cannot do is copy and resell anything here as part of an audio CD!
Most of these recordings come from old Edison cylinders.
Politicians:
1 William Jennings Bryan (Presidential Nominee)
Title: Immortality (Campaign Speech) - Date: 1908
2 Woodrow Wilson (President)
Title: Address To American Indians - Date: 1913
3 Grover Cleveland (President)
Title: Unknown (Campaign Speech) - Date: 1892
4 William McKinley (President)
Title: Unknown (Speech at Republican Convention) - Date: 1896
5 William Howard Taft (President)
Title: Rights and Progress of the Negro (Campaign Speech) - Date: 1908
6 Theodore Roosevelt (President)
Title: The Right of the People to Rule (Campaign Speech) - Date: August 1912
7 Garrett A. Hobart (Vise President)
Title: Words of Welcome - Date: May 1, 1898
Inventors & Explorers:
8 Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton (South Pole Explorer)
Title: My South Polar Expedition - Date: March 30, 1910
9 Commander Robert E. Peary (North Pole Explorer)
Title: The Discovery Of The North Pole - Date: 1910
10 Thomas A. Watson (Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell)
Title: Unknown (About Bell Inventing the Telephone) - Date: 1914
11 Thomas A. Edison (Inventor)
Title: Let Us never Forget (About WWI) - Date: 1916
Authors & Poets:
12 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)
Title: Unknown (About Sherlock Holmes and Spiritualism) - Date: May 14, 1930
13 W.B. Yeats (Famous Poet)
Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Reading From His Poem) - Date: October 4, 1932
14 George Bernard Shaw (Playwright)
Title: Unknown (Speech at an Event Honoring Einstein) - Date: October 28, 1930
15 G.K. Chesterton (Author)
Title: The Spices Of Life - Date: Unknown (Mid 1930's)
16 Oscar Wilde (Highly Controversial Author/Poet)
Title: The Ballad Of Reading Jail (Reading From His Poem) - Date: 1898
17 Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)
Title: For Every Day (Reading From His Book in English) - Date: 1907
Interesting Persons:
18 Harry Houdini (Magician/Escape Artist)
Title: Water Torture Chamber (Practicing Spiel During a Rehearsal) - Date: 1914
19 Florence Nightingale (Famous War-Time Nurse)
Title: Greetings to the Dear Old Comrades of Balaclava (Speech for Veteran's Benefit) -
Date: July 30, 1890
20 Edwin Booth (The Most Famous 19th Century Actor)
Title: Othello (Reading from Shakespeare) - Date: 1892
21 General Nelson A. Miles (Major General for the Union Army during the Civil War, led the defeat of Geronimo in 1886, Commander of United States Army during the Spanish-American War)
Title: Unknown (Remarks During Visit to Edison Labs) - Date: December 28, 1914
22 Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist & Philanthropist)
Title: Unknown (Audio From a Lost Kinetophone Movie) - Date: January 20, 1914
23 William F. Cody AKA--Buffalo Bill (Soldier & Showman)
Title: Sentiments on the Cuban Question - Date: April 20, 1898
24 General William Booth (Salvation Army Founder)
Title: Salvation Army Sermon - Date: 1902
25 Pope Leo XIII (256th Pope)
Title: Benediction To The Catholic People - Date: 1903
