Fans of 19th Cent. Music

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Comment by Stan H on November 4, 2009 at 7:58am

Jeff

You are very welcome. I would like to share more, but am concerned about the copyright laws. I'll try to look into some of thenewer stuff I have and see if any of it is now in the public domain.

Enjoy those few anyway.

Comment by Stan H on October 31, 2009 at 1:07pm

I am going to post some in the discussion forum rather than as comments. that wasy they should stay easy to access. I don't have a lot of information other than name and sometimes apx. date. But I'll do as I can.

Comment by Ginny Morgan on October 31, 2009 at 12:57pm

Way Cool! I got it to work...now I have to get better speakers...

Comment by Jeff Smith on October 31, 2009 at 12:22pm

I heard it loud and clear!

I know you were "testing" the link so please post some information with each link you post, including date. Personally, this is what I love to hear my friend.

Comment by Stan H on October 31, 2009 at 11:53am

Can you folks play the music on this link?

Comment by Stan H on October 31, 2009 at 9:18am

05 FOLLOWING THE COW TRAIL.mp3

I am going to try to upload a file here. It is one of the old songs. Let's see if that works.

Comment by Stan H on October 31, 2009 at 7:37am

Jeff

Let me play around and see what I can do. No promises, but I'll try. I'll let you know as I progress (or not)

Comment by Jeff Smith on October 30, 2009 at 3:51pm

My ignorance is showing. Let me see if I have this right. You want to download them to your website so we can hear them? If I have it right that sounds great! That kind of work can be posted here AND on the main page of TW. Thank you very much, I look forward to hearing them.

Comment by Stan H on October 30, 2009 at 9:51am

I wanted to correct myself. After going back through my files, I realized I had downloaded most of those old songs from the Library of Congress, not the Smithsonian. Sorry for the confusion. It has been about 15 years since I did this. Old timers disease I think,,,lol.

Comment by Stan H on October 30, 2009 at 9:32am

I just wanted to let you good folks know I was able to download some pretty good old music from the Smithsonian institute web site.

Some of the songs:
The Ballad of Cole Younger - Edward Crain (1919)
Billy the Kid - Verno Dalhart (1920)
The Last Longhorn - Carl Sprague (1920)

Most of my collection dates to the 1920s and 1930s, but they are authentic songs of the "old west" sung by talent such as those named above, plus Carson Robison and Elton Britt, not from the "singing cowboy" movies.

A number of the selections are by Alan Lomax. As I am sure you are aware, he and his dad did years of reseach into the old music, both in the west and the south.

As this is almost all "in the public domain" I was able to download it. I included some of it on my poetry CD.

I have a site I upload some of my poetry to and would be willing to upload some of these "public" songs to. I don't know if you can download from there or not, but if interested, let me know and we can try. I believe this is legal, else why would the Smithsonian allow me to download them the first place?

Up to ya'll.

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