Dixie Medley By Fred Van Eps 1912 Blue Amberol Cylinder Record Concludes Confederate History Week

Good evening everyone.  This is Michael.  The Sun Has Set On Confederate History Week.  It is May the second 2014 and this is the seventh and final episode in the series.  It is Friday night and we are going to party the way they did in the Old South.  I once again brought out the Thomas Edison Amberola Phonograph Model VI-B.  I have a record titled "Dixie Medley" by Fred Van Eps (sometimes spelled Epps) for you.  This could also be considered a general Southern medley.  I am sure you will recognize a number of songs in the medley.

This record was pressed and released in 1912 and the issue number is 1532.  Fred Van Eps was born in 1878 and passed away in 1960.  Fred himself owned an Edison Phonograph ... as a matter of fact, he was the first person in his city to own one!  Source: http://www.gracyk.com/fredvaneps.shtml

Here is a video with the song:


Photographs of the cylinder ...




Here I am playing some air banjo to the music!






I thank all of you for being a part of Confederate History Week here at the Michael The Researcher channel.

Information about the record can be found at this link:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016%20&query=1532&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id