[78-L] Minstrel Show

[Jack Raymond]

If David Harvey knows the name of the song that Mr. Lowe played, I can probably identify the record.

-- Jack Raymond
> David Lennick wrote:
>
> Jack Raymond did a discography of Minstrel records, in a small printed format
> (which means it's not sticking out on the shelf..sorry, Jack).
>
> On 5/27/2012 7:30 AM,marimbamoods at comcast.net  wrote:
>> many years ago, (OK, decades ago - but who's counting) a long-time record collector who has since passed mentioned about a record to me that i am curious about. it is an early recording of a minstrel show, but he did not recall the record label. he did say it was a disc, not a cylinder. i am wondering if anyone may be able to identify the label info for this particular recording if i describe it.
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>> charles p lowe, a xylophonist, performs on this session along with singers. at one point in the session, the singers introduce charles p lowe before he plays the xylophone. in introducing lowe, the singer(s) says the following:
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>> "charles lowe will play the xylophone,
>> it is made of rosewood.
>> it is called rosewood because,
>> someone planted seeds in a bucket -
>> watered them, and
>> up rose wood."
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>> does anyone have any idea what record this may be, based on those lyrics and the fact that charles p lowe performs xylophone on it? lowe performed on records from about 1890 to 1905 for many labels, including american, berliner, columbia, edison, victor, and zonophone. presumably, this would be a single-sided record, issued between 1899 and 1905.
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>> best, david harvey
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