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Lomax Collection Recording of English, sample 8

Tuesday 2 August 2011 at 18:12




This is a recording from Alan Lomax’s Parlametrics collection. These recordings were made by linguists around the world as well as by Lomax himself. In this one of many recordings of the English language, the interviewee from Arkansaw talks of his Grandfather’s relationship with famous outlaws Frank and Jesse James. Find more out about Alan Lomax and his pioneering collection of recordings here

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As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare
(1925)

Popeye, the Sailor Man - Al Dollar & His Ten Cent Band with Billy Murray (1931)

Chopins Funeral March - The Edison Concert Band (1906)

Houdini on his Water Torture Cell (1914)

Lomax Collection Recording of English

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Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/02/lomax-collection-recording-of-english/