[78-L] Help Identifying a 78

[Chris Zwarg]

At 22:12 01.11.2008, you wrote:
>The excerpts I've seen/heard seem to be narrated by Harry E. Humphrey, the same gentleman who recorded the "explanatory talks" on Edison's operatic discs.  

Makes more sense to me, as I have never come across any talking records by Burr. Maybe he provided songs for the project? After all, he was a very popular recorder of hymns and the like.

Chris Zwarg





>--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Eric Hollis <eric.hollis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Eric Hollis <eric.hollis at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Help Identifying a 78
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 2:07 PM
>> Well, that makes some sense to me, considering the batch of
>> records that I
>> got it from.  I got a complete set of the 1914 records from
>> the "Photo Drama
>> of Creation", released in 1914 in New York City.  It
>> was a similar
>> syncronized film/record/lantern slide production that ran 8
>> hours.  The
>> narrator of the Photo Drama was Henry Burr, although
>> he's not credited on
>> the discs.  
>
>
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