Cool idea! I'm going to have to try this

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This is the device on Ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-CANAPHONIC-ARCHIVETTE-for-the-Edison-Columbia-Cylinder-Phonographs-NEW-/200915806941


This was played on an Edison Amberola 30 phonograph and digitized using an Archivette microphone attached to the reproducer. The lyrics to the song in the demo are just as cool, quite fitting today. See below.

1915

Performer Walter Van Brunt
Title Don't bite the hand that's feeding you

Lyrictext:

Last night, as I lay a sleeping,
A wonderful dream came to me.
I saw Uncle Sammy weeping
For his children from over the sea;
They had come to him, friendless and starving,
When from tyrant's oppression they fled,
But now they abuse and revile him,
Till at last in just anger he said:


If you don't like your Uncle Sammy,
Then go back to your home o'er the sea,
To the land from where you came,
Whatever be its name,
But don't be ungrateful to me!
If you don't like the stars in Old Glory,
If you don't like the Red, White and Blue,
Then don't act like the cur in the story,
Don't bite the hand that's feeding you!


You recall the day you landed,
How I welcomed you to my shore?
When you came here empty handed,
And allegiance forever you swore?
I gathered you close to my bosom,
Of food and of clothes you got both,
So, when in trouble, I need you,
You will have to remember your oath:


If you don't like your Uncle Sammy,
Then go back to your home o'er the sea,
To the land from where you came,


Whatever be its name,
But don't be ungrateful to me!
If you don't like the stars in Old Glory,
If you don't like the Red, White and Blue,
Then don't act like the cur in the story,
Don't bite the hand that's feeding you!







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