Recommendations for 1890's - 1910's music.

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I found a picture of you, OP.

Well shit, this is a first.

The only time I listen to songs THAT old is when Tiny Tim covered them. The man was a human encyclopedia on music from the dawn of recorded sound through to WWII; you should check him out beyond the falsetto novelty stuff.

>>73371797
>and asking old people
For what purpose? They might be able to tell you about music from the 50s or something, but not this shit.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=MJv6Q5TMBZM

I can give you some bluegrass and blues if you want, OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlUd0FFe5EQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr_VUEITbjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrOv7qHgo3k

>>73371816
Fuck. I guess it kinda does give off that vibe. I just wanted to see if anyone else ever wonders about old shit. If anything I look like a 2012 scene kid, at least. m'lady.
>>73371842
I know but it seems more likely that 80 year old people will know Scott Joplin than rather my age group.
I mean, it feels like every old lady has a story about broadway or listening to broadway ya know?

>>73371866
Singers of this time like Billy Murray and Al Jolson essentially shouted rather than sang because they were used to the concert hall environment which required you to project to be able to be heard. The primitive acoustic recording equipment also necessitated this style of vocal.

The event of electronic sound recording at the end of the 1920s enabled the creation of the softer, more intimate crooner sound which Bing Crosby developed during the early 1930s. Most of the ex-vaudeville singers died out in the 30s, although Al Jolson had a post-WWII career comeback until his death in 1951.

Knock yrself out, ya insufferable bastard.

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=everything&year=1910s&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=everything&year=1900s&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=

>>73371916
This is actually super interesting. Huh.

>>73371907
>I know but it seems more likely that 80 year old people will know Scott Joplin than rather my age group.
An 80 year old was born in 1936-37, an entire generation after ragtime had died out. They might know about Rosemary Clooney or some shit like that, they wouldn't have been alive for ragtime by a long shot.

Actually The Sting was anachronistically using ragtime because the movie was set in the 30s, well after that style of music was ancient history.

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>>73371866
>>73371882
Thanks .

>>73371939
Yes I know, what I'm saying is they would have grown up hearing and liking their relatives' music just as you and I grew up hearing Nirvana or some other shit because our parents still liked it.

>>73371999
My parents were pushing 40 when Cobain offed himself, they didn't "grow up" listening to Nirvana by any stretch.

>>73371797
>>73371907
>>73371999
I swear, this guy gets more and more Reddit-tier with every post.

>>73372044
Did reddit teach you to say that when you get on blue boards?

1. Google "Best selling sheet music 19XX"

Before the phonograph, if people wanted to listen to music, they would buy the sheet music and play it on the piano.

Look at the song lists of Sheet music compilations to get the name of songs

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486215369.html#tab3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/079353125X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_dp_T2_yGJqzbC7G1W06

2. Get this:
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/various-artists/anthology-of-american-folk-music-1/

3. Yazoo is the most prominent label that distributes this music:
http://shanachie.com/genres/yazoo/

Get the name of the songs from these sources, then look them up on youtube.

Protip: Sales of recorded music didn't exceed sales of sheet music until after WWII

library of congress
strange web dudes archiving cylinders
search active record companies of the time and the discs they were promoting
could be a lot of small time unknown s out there

maybe
http://library.rockhall.com/archival_repositories_collections

maybe some shit like
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/collections

The only pop group I listen to from that time is American Quartet. "That Mysterious Rag" gets stuck in my head from time to time.