This is a tricky one. Basically this page will be devoted to early popular vocal records, generally pre-electrical recordings, so before 1925. This will be a mixture of Music Hall, Ragtime and other popular songs, such as Coon Songs (as they were called).  Recording dates shown are very approximate due to lack of documentation of this type of music. Many records were issued under pseudonyms and these are shown after the label & Catalogue number.

These are all mp3 files. They have been transferred by myself from original 78s in my own collection. You should have something on your computer already which will play these.   
The files are listed by artist. Within each artist the titles are listed by recording date. 

TO PLAY: If you have a fast connection (broadband), then you can just click on the title of the piece and your media player should automatically start, or you will be given the choice of "run" (play it now) or "save"; otherwise right click on the title and choose "save target as" and browse to a place on your computer where you wish to save it. This will download the file to your computer so you can play it at your leisure. The file sizes are between 1.2MB and 1.5MB.

PLEASE NOTE: These are for your own listening pleasure only. Please respect this and DON'T sell them or put them up onto your own website as your own files.      

Page last updated February 19, 2015.

 Page last updated February 19, 2015.