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Residuum - Great Recording Artists of Pre-Copyrighted Times
Musicians play music for fun, not for making money, despite what the recording industry tells you. Even in times before any copyright laws, people composed and played music for their own pleasure and the joy of the listeners, and many of the early recording artists never made adequate money from their works, despite their work having a great influence on their listeners who stood on their shoulders.
[UMB055] Residuum - Great Recording Artists of Pre-Copyrighted Times
Album Cover Art: Front Cover ( 37 kb) Back Cover ( 360 kb)
1. Karl Valentin - Valentin was a Munich comedian, maybe the greatest comedian of all times, entertaining a wide audience with surreal and dadaist elements in a lot of his works. He had an offer from Charles Chaplin to appear in a movie with him, but rejected due to his homesickness. During the Third Reich he was put out of work, and after World War II his works were full of bitter irony that the broadcasting company refused to continue working with him. He died in poverty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Valentin
1. Stellenloser Filmkomiker ( 8,713 kb)
2. Rekimokmlif Resolnellets (8,713 kb)
2. Charlie Patton - Patton is considered the father of Delta blues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Patton
3. Bix Beiderbecke - Beiderbecke was a cornet player for Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra, his most famous composition being "Singing the Blues", a tune that Louis Armstrong refused to perform, because he could never reach the quality of the original recording. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix_Beiderbecke
4. Robert Johnson - Johnson is the most famous of all Delta blues musicians, mostly because of the impact that he left in the evolving British rock scene in the 1960s, most notably the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Yet, there are only 29 songs recorded songs of him, all made in 1936 and 1937, with 42 recordings over all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson
6. Who Stoleth the Soul ( 8,368 kb)
7. Luos eht Htelots Ohw ( 8,368 kb)
5. Woody Guthrie - Guthrie is a well-known folk singer, who never cared about copyright and fighted capitalism and fascism with his music instead. "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." (Woody Guthrie about: This Land Is Your Land) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
8. This is My Machine ( 9,547 Kb)
9. Enihcam Ym si Siht ( 9,547 kb)
6. Charlie Parker - Despite his addiction to heroine (or maybe due to it?) he became one of the greatest stars of the Bebop era in Jazz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker
10. Bird on a Wire ( 11,713 kb)
11. Eriw a no Drib ( 4,925 kb)
7. Harry Smith - Smith collected folk recordings from the 1920s and 1930s and released them as The Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952, although never obtaining any copyright of these recordings. But with this bootleg release he influenced a whole generation of listeners who went on to rediscover the rich American folk music and form a whole revival. "I learned everything I know from Harry Smith's Folkways Anthology." (Jerry Garcia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Everett_Smith
12 . A Long Story Cut Short ( 3,926 kb)