The old record box II; Singalong

The following program is distributed by the national educational radio network. The old record box. This program consists primarily of selections played from cylinder records on Edison phonographs frequently called talking machine. These records were issued in a period extending from the late 1890s to 1929. Your host is Fred Harrington. This program is sing along. You may join in player in Loudon should you feel so inclined to wear this on television we might have a little bouncing ball for a guy. But for many people memory will serve the purpose as well. From 1869 our first is Sweet Genevieve by George

Cooper. Yeah. Was it. In 1930. You might have joined royal fish and the chorus. And there's still universal favorite by Gerard and Armstrong. Oh.

In 104 people from all over the world came to the bustling Mississippi River town to celebrate. And this by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin became the theme song. And while there it would be surprising if there were not more than one bunch of good followers bellowing this song hit of the same year. Theodore A

Martian wrote the words to a melody and go Burton Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Considerably a more subdued untold hours in one thousand five instant hit by Harry H Williams and Egbert Van Alstine present day quartets often included in their repertory singer is Irving Gillette.

God. Now we'll jump ahead about a decade and we find a great favorite involved

railbird Alaska and businessmen's conventions. Jack Mahoney and Percy when Ridge had everybody singing at before the United States entered World War One where you are free. Am I My point was that there was a lie on your part. Where are your own. And I don't suppose Shannon and Logan thought their borrowed creation would

end up as an official state song and a White House favorite. Say. The cheerful suggestion in the next song came to Lee asked Roberts at a

convention of music dealers this 917 number were sold and sang throughout the nation as well as in the passing show of 1918. We

are next as a favorite of any candor in one thousand twenty. And well it should be for his five year old daughter inspired Khan Conrad and Jay Russell Robinson to write the song you. Hear. 19:23 had two immensely successful nonsense songs

10 years before marriage he dotes. One was Barney Google and this was the other one by Frank silver and Irving calling. Right.

It seems fitting to close the program with a good bye song. Richard a Whiting was aware of painful partings in wartime and made this year's theme for our concluding ballad. Besides widespread popular appeal the song has been sung frequently in the United States Congress at times of adjournment. A. And this is a red herring and B closing the old

record box. This is the national educational radio network.