1 hour of wax cylinder/phonograph recordings.
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- [All records from UCSB Cylinder Archive: cylinders.libra...]
Wax cylinders were the first ways of recording sound, and they were used between 1890 - 1910 before vinyl records became more popular. Basically, the recording was engraved onto the outside of a cylinder made of wax, and could be played back on a Phonograph. However, these recordings could only be played back clearly about 20 times before they were damaged. Mold would grow on the outsides, which would further damage the recording. Most cylinders that have been found and recovered have been anywhere from between crystal clear and earrape static.
00:00 - Intro
00:05 - 'Mid the green fields of Virginia
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02:46 - Choral piece
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05:13 - Solitude of the Shepherdess
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07:27 - Gilligan High School minstrels
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09:46 - Carmi Vaughn
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12:20 - Bring back my kitty to me
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14:16 - Invincible eagle march
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16:59 - Brautlied
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19:36 - The Prettiest Little Song of All
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21:41 - Pat Maloney's family
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24:30 - Daisy Bell
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26:54 - A May Morning
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29:13 - Black and white rag.
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31:26 - Santa Claus in Holland
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34:04 - Recollections of 1861-1865
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38:11 - Love's old sweet song
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41:04 - Mr. and Mrs. David Wellever
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44:56 - George Dunlop
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47:47 - Father O'Brien
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50:46 - I love thee
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52:33 - "Carmen" selection
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56:59 - 'Tis but a little faded flower
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_Caretaker fans will recognize some of these cylinders_
i love ucsb cylinder archive
The prettiest little song of all be like 0_0
solitude of shepherds is “and bliss everywhere bliss” in everywhere an empty bliss
im pretty sure
yes
Where's Salade Russ Tyroliene
I understand how this works but at the same time its insane to me that groves in wax can generate sounds like this
I love old (borderline historic!) music and audio technology.
What's *borderline* about this?
@@CubicApocalypse128 poor choice of wording more or less
This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mr. James Fitzgerald
OMG THIS SELECTION
Santa Claus in Holland sounds like my phones speakers after I dropped it in my bath
Oh yeah relatable
0:08 I love how he is singing to the static that sounds like somebody walking on snow 😂
That's because it was either mould or the stylus was digging too deep in the cylinder
It's totally bonkers that we have several recorded songs from 1890s. Fascinating.
We have a recorded song from 1860
@@keatonhardy3297 Yeah, I know.
And quite a few thousand from 1888-1889 (the original commercial phonograph was released then, years after Edison’s initial invention)
I had a heart attack when heard the second track holy crap
thanks for the heads up
Is the person whos recording having a stroke!? :v
What really spooked me was the man speaking at 4:15 .
@@agwrr71productions79that's not someone talking, that's the cylinder going "brrr"
@bingobeego I can hear the words "Excuse me," quite clearly.
Solitude of the Shepherdess is a tearjerker.
"Bring back my kitty to me" genuinely sounds like what you would hear if you opened a portal to hell.
me and the boys when we create the nether portal:
Yeah kinda unsettling. I think this one recording got pretty corrupted with time unfortunately :(
Sounds like veggie tales and those 2 broccoli characters
5:14 I didn't know until this point that they originally came without the "sweeping the floor" sound.
Probably because they have cleaned their cylinder and it didn't have mould or indents in it
14:17 "This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mr. James Fitzgerald."
- Quote from "K1 - Advanced Plaque Entanglements"
Lyrics to 'Mid the green fields of Virginia:
Mid the green fields of Virginia in the vale of Shenandoah
There's an ivy covered homestead that I love
With it's quaint old fashioned chimney and it's simple homelike air
'Tis the home of my dear parents, now above
Though I'm living in a mansion grand with wealth at my command
I'd give it all, just for a single day
To play with my young comrades, and to see my mother dear
'Mid the green fields for Virginia far away
'Mid the green fields of Virginia, stands an old mill by the stream
And I'd come to that old spot to sing and play
Oh how often would I throw the stones into that babbling brook
And I dreamed some day 'twould carry me away
Yes the dream came true, one day in June, I left the dear old home
They told me mother's heart had broke that day
Oh if I could but see her, I'd lay me down and die
'Mid the green fields for Virginia far away
There's a peaceful cottage there, a happy home so dear
My heart is longing for them day by day
Where I spent life's golden hours in the vale of Shenandoah
'Mid the green fields of Virginia far a way
Just thought I'd post since it's one of my favorite recordings here
What is the incoherent singing after the song?
@@spingleboygle Most likely chatter from whoever else was in the studio during the recording. Often times singers and performers had issues filling the time slots given during the 2 and 4 minute eras of cylinder records. Sometimes there'd just be extra voices or other noises during times when there wasn't any parts of the song itself.
@@possiblyli5510 unsettling that right after i watched the synthavision demo reel you changed your pfp to the purple ball character with his american tophat
I don't know about you, but this gives me goosebumps.
Some of these are iconic.
"A scene from the comic opera Mikado, as rendered by members of the Connecticut Troopers, for the Evergreen Speaking Phonograph Company of New York and Stamford" "Record taken in Stamford on the 23rd of September, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Six"
Solitude of the shepherdness is beautiful.
A lot of these can be so perfect for Internal Bewildered World stuff
Nah
34:20 I know that this sample was used somewhere, but I can’t for the life of me remember which one.
Loss of want back there lolz
i forgot too
Not entirely sure. Although it does sound somewhat like “Are you lonesome tonight” and I know the other way after By Edna white is when “Johnny comes marching home”
If you’re talking about the bugle at the beginning the military uses that a lot during parades and marches
@@Its_Antoniooo i think the one that sounds like loss of want back there which is after the bugle
I bet that the music we still have from the period was HIGHLY influenced by the instruments that could be recorded clearly.... Acoustic recording only worked with LOUD sounds.
loove the unidentified choir
Great! No long talks and short shows or fake imitations of that, but I am sure this is certainly real sound of wax cylinder record, years ago I downloaded some such records from Napster.
Here because of James Fitzgerald's mandolin solo from stage 5. (:
Some information about cylinder records:
The first commercially avaliable records (1890s-1902ish) used a brown wax formula, which did wear down easily and sounded rough
After 1902 or so, a black wax formula was introduced, offering much better sound quality and a longer record life (less wear).
This is why you hear a sharp increase in quality for post 1901/2 records. It's not just condition, although that helps.
41:19 The man says "On the 17th *day* of January", if you're wondering what the (?) is in the description on screen.
If you play this video more than 20 times it will disappear from TH-cam.
Thank God it will not. It was quite selfless of people from the past that they did not ruin these wax recordings.
5:13 And Bliss Everywhere Bliss……
14:16 Advanced Plaque Entanglements
19:36 Bewildered In Other Eyes/All Eyes Bewildered
29:16 Advanced Plaque Entanglements
31:26 Glimpses Of Life Denial
34:04 Loss Of Want Back There
38:11 A Losing Battle Is Raging
34:03 A bee!
Atomic bomb explodes*
*sharts*
It wasn't a bee. It was most likely the stylus scratching/clogging.
@@keatonhardy3297 he literally said a bee in the recording
@@JosephSlater-tf9ji then stylus cloging
Mans really said solo like
SoOoOlLo
56:05 gave me a fucking heart attack
Um, guys? Is that Freddy Fazbear? Har har ha har har har har har har
41:10 laptop microphones be like
LMAO
More like: that one kid in online class be like
I believe that invincible eagle March was a sample somewhere in stage 5
you are correct
Mandolin solo
19:38 thats where "Bewildered in other eyes" was sampled from?
yup
now its the scariest little song of all.
No, I belive the exact version used in "Bewildered in other eyes" was a recording from 1904, however I may be wrong.
@@coldsteelthehedgehog2101
I think it was this one.
@@coldsteelthehedgehog2101 can confirm bewildered in other eyes is the 1910 version heard in this video. You see the majority of recordings of the 1904 black wax version that are on the internet have a lot of noise that just isn't heard in bewildered in other eyes or all eyes bewildered. I actually own the 1904 version and my copy of the recording is dusty as shit. Plus kirby probably wanted to use the version that'd sound best, and the 1910 version just has better sound quality.
Wow, the third one is really good wuality for a wax cylinder! Maybe thats what they sounded like originally and if kept in good condition? Does anyone know?
Most likely yes.
Yes. If kept in temperate conditions the wax record will likely remain the same. If it’s not in temperate conditions, mold grows on the record and pretty much destroys any sound from the record. (That was the reason for the repeating sound that sounds similar to someone stomping on snow)
Yep. Also, by 1909, cylinder record companies have switched to a black wax formula whicj made better sounding records.
Records from the 1890s and start of the 1900s had a brown wax formula, which produced the gnarlier sounding record you hear.
Been looking up phonograph recordings.... this is so amazing! Hard to believe that all these people are dead... better watch out for ghost visitations lol
This seems cool!
“I Love Thee” is beautiful.
Lots of work include precise galvanic copying , gold plating, precise mechanical record machines, had be done - but unfortunately we have big noise (SNR 25dB or less) and bad frequency response (300-2500Hz). The musicians and singers had performed superbly, excellent ; engineers had done their best - but we have that we have: letters 's','sh','h' - have much lower level that 'a','o','y' (30-40dB) and therefore can`t be recorded on a cylinder because a noise floor is too big.
some of these are pleasant other ones send me into primal monkey spotting a snake mode
An interesting selection, especially with so many home recordings. But at least two of these are not wax records (they are celluloid). Also, the statement that "vinyl records became more popular" is incorrect! Mr. Bulldozer surely means "shellac disc records"!!
Ah i'm waiting for Salade Russe, Mandolin Solo, Prettiest Little Song of All, Ancient court whisperings, Love's old sweet song, and more.
i skipped to a random part and found E7 from stage 3 at the exact same time the music box started 😭
Very nice!
I believe that the man at 4:15 is saying "Excuse me". I think the reason why he said that was either he was
A. coughing,
B. Going to a spittoon to spit out a wad,
or...
C. Just trolling us for the lulz.
Use your imagination.
Holy Cow! Somebody picked the most dreadful and poorly-recorded or preserved cylinders for this video. Look folks, nobody in 1895 wanted to hear sounds as awful as this. Try some other sites. The original recordings were as crystal clear as life itself.
Where can I find those recordings in "crystal clear" quality?
This comment section will be a mandolin solo by James Fitsgerald
directions unclear; recited Santa Claus in Holland
@@CubicApocalypse128 oops
This is epic.
56:06 Freddy fabaer
2:46 does anyone know what they're singing?
34:18 "just before the battle mother i lost my want back there"
I wonder how they decided which recordings to use ? Not all recordings from 1890s sound this noisy. Some sound remarkably good. Fasanating just the same. Used to collect brown wax cylinders
"Carmen selection"
Where have I heard that name before?
*Lights go out*
Im sad because that song is now used for "that one game thats now pure clickbait". If THAT didnt exist i would enjoy it.
I swear i have heard of love's old sweet song before
Is the melody for the choral piece known?
only real ones would jam out
34:20 where did i hear this
eateot
@@TimCizej137 actually that song i from everywhere an empty bliss
Loss of want back there
Can anyone tell me the name/lyrics of that second song?
Most of the recording were not released. You should have said the were recorded not released.
Ayo I just heard my great great great great great great grandfather step brother
The crazy part is it wasn't that long ago, would more likely be 3-4x great grandfather
interesting
34:04
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it says "a bee"
@@thecaketubby5764 I wonder if the guy who shouts 'a bee' at the end is referring to the vibrating oscillation of the malfunctioning recorder that is producing that buzzing noise during the recording
41:18 "on the seventeenth day of January, 1900"
It's actually el capitan not invincible eagle
Lee B. Woodcock is a very unfortunate name
5:14 :(
Hey Tater and Ms Salty Balls, why are you wasting time on TH-cam instead of working?