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Title:

The Arkansas traveler

Performer:

Len Spencer.

Issue Number/Label:

3745: Edison Blue Amberol

Issue Number/Label:

181: Edison Amberol

Year of Release:

[1919]

Audio:

Stream cylinder 5898: Download: MP3 file (2-4 MB)
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Note:

Reissue of Edison Amberol 181.

Note:

Edison Blue Amberol: 3745.

Note:

Year of release from "Edison Blue Amberol Recordings" by R. Dethlefson, v.2 (1981).

Note:

Vaudeville sketch.

Composer/Performer:

Spencer, Len, 1867-1914.

Subject:

Popular music--1911-1920.

Subject:

Vaudeville.

Item Location:

Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 5898 (Take 1)

Item Location:

Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 7767 (take 2)

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