By Doug Boilesen
Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize novel
"One of Ours" has many connections with the phonograph,
sheet music and records as seen in its respective PhonoBook
gallery "One of Ours."
This page features the records from
that PhonoBook gallery as its own discography, sheet music and the
playlist.
Playlist
"The
Americans Come!" by Reinald Werrenrath, Victor Record 45157-A,
Recorded October 28, 1918 (Courtesy
of i78s.org)
"Annie
Laurie" sung by Louise Homer, Victor Red Seal Record 87206,
Recorded 5/27/1914 Camden, New Jersey (i78s.org)
"Arrival
of the American Troops in France" by Prince's Band and Columbia
Male Quartette Record A2354 (Courtesy of i78s.org) and
the Internet
Archive)
"Battle
of the Marne" Descriptive by J. Luxton played by the New
York Military Band on Edison Diamond Disc Record 50422, 1917 and available
on Internet
Archive.
"The
Battle of the Marne" performed by Russell Hunting, Elocutionist,
on Pathe 12" Record No. 35067, double-sided disc
"Battle
of the Marne March" by J. Luxton on 4-minute Edison Amberola
Record No. 3018 performed by Sodero's Band (as New York Military Band)
Cesare Sodero, director, recorded April 20, 1916
"Break
the News to Mother" sung by George Ballard and Chorus, Edison's
4-Minute Blue Amberol Record No. 34366, released February, 1918 (Courtesy
UCSB Digital Collection)
"Break
the News to Mother" by Shannon Four, Victor Record No. 18358-A,
1917 (Courtesy Internet Archive)
"Break
the News to Mother" by Henry Burr and Columbia Stellar Quartette,
Columbia Grafonola's July 1917 release of Record No. A2436, (Courtesy
Internet Archive)
"Casey
Home From The Front" by Russell Hunting, Double Sided Disc
12" - Pathe Record 30308 (Courtesy
i78s.org)
"A
Church Service On the Battlefield," Pathé Record 35067
is Side B of "The Battle of the Marne," 1917 (Courtesy of
i78s.org)
"Departure
of the American Troops for France" by Prince's Band and Columbia
Male Quartette Record A2354 (Courtesy
of i78s.org) and the Internet
Archive)
"Departure
of the First U.S. Troops for France" by Russell Hunting,
Pathé 20125 (Courtesy of
i78s.org)
"Everybody's
Happy Now" sung by Ben Linn, Emerson Phonograph Co., No.
7452, 1918 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"From
the Battlefields of France," Hear the words from General
John J. Pershing, The Columbia Graphophone Co., 1918 (Courtesy
of i78s.org)
"General
Pershing March" played by Victor Band, Record 18607-A, Recorded
on August 5, 1919 (Courtesy of
i78s.org)
"Good
Bye Broadway, Hello France" Sung by Arthur Fields. Edison
Domestic Series 3321, 4-minute celluoid cylinder, recorded July 17,
1917 (also dubbed on Edison Diamond Disc Record)
"Good-Bye
France," by Nora Bayes, Columbia Record A2678, 10" disc,
Recorded on November 15, 1918 (Courtesy i78s.org)
"Home
Sweet Home" sung by Alma Gluck, Victor Red Seal 74251, 1911
(Courtesy of i78s.org)
"Home,
Sweet Home The World Over," 4-minute Edison Blue Amberol
Record No. 1600, November 1912 Edison Phonograph Monthly (Courtesy
i78s.org)
I
Didn't Raise My Boy to Be Soldier, by Morton Harvey, Victor Record
No. 17716 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"If
I'm Not at the Roll Call (Kiss Mother Good-bye for Me)" by
George Boyden, performed by Campbell
and Burr, Columbia A2641, 1918 (Courtesy
Internet Archive)
"If
I'm Not at the Roll Call Kiss Mother Good-bye for Me" by
Harvey Hindermeyer (as Harvey Wilson). Edison Domestic Series No.
3630, 4-minute celluloid cylinder recorded August 6, 1918 (Courtesy
of i78s.org)
"I'm
Crazy Over Every Girl In France," Sung by Avon Comedy Four,
Columbia Record No. A2399, Recorded December 13, 1917 (Courtesy i78s.org)
"I'm
Neutral" sung by Bert Williams Columia Grafonola Record A1817,
1915
"Jimmy
Triggers Return from Mexico" Vaudeville sketch by Billy Golden
and Joe Hughes' about the Mexican Expedition, Edison 4-minutes celluloid
cylinder No. 2429 recorded May 28, 1914 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"Let's
All Be Americans Now" performed by Adolph J. Hahl (Arthur
Hall), Edison Domestic series 3201, 4-minute Edison Blue Amberol Record,
recorded February 28, 1917
"L-i-b-e-r-t-y"
by Henry Burr, Rex 10" Record No. 5377-A, produced 1914-1917
(Courtesy of i78s.org)
"Long,
Long Ago," Irish Ballad by Mr. Frank S. Maszziotti, Piccolo,
7" Disc Zon-o-phone Record 9097
"Long,
Long Ago" by Frieda Hempel, Recorded 12/31/1917, New York,
Edison 82550 10-in. (UCSB Library, DAHR)
"La
Marseillaise" (de Lisle) {In English}, performed by Thomas
Chalmers, Edison Concert series 28289, 4-minute Edison Blue Amberol
Record, recorded May 21, 1917
"The
Midnight Attack," Played by Prince's Band, Columbia Record
A1339, Recorded April 16, 1913 (Courtesy
Library of Congress)
"A
Minstrel Show No. 4 - A Matrimonial Chat" by Harry
Humphrey, Edison 2-minute Gold Moulded Record No. 9278, released in
May 1906 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"Oh!
How I Hate to get up in the morning" by Arthur Fields, Edison
4-minute celluloid cylinder Record No. 3639, recorded July 16, 1918
(Courtesy i78s.org)
"Over
There" by Enrico Caruso, Victor Record 87294, recorded on
July 11, 1918 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"Pershing
for President" by Arthur Fields, Lyric Record 5135-A, circa
1919 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"The
Rose of No Man's Land" by Moonlight Trio, Edison Domestic
Series 3677, 4-minute celluoid cylinder, recorded October 11, 1918
(Courtesy of i78s.org)
"Roses
of Picardy" Sung by John McCormack, Victrola Red Seal Record
748-A, Recorded April 16, 1919 (LISTEN Courtesy DAHR and Library of
Congress)
Soldier's
Day, A (The Way Army Bugle Calls Sound To the Boys) by Geoffrey
O'Hara, Victor 10" double-sided disc, Date
April 18, 1918, Record No. 18451 (Courtesy i78s.org)
Submarine
Attack by Theodore Morse
performed by Premier Quartet and Company, Edison Diamond Disc Re-Creation
Record No. 50490
"Take
me Back to Dear Old Blighty" by Arthur Fields, Emerson Record
No. 934, 9" double-side disc, March 1918 (Courtesy i78s.org)
- See 78Discography.com
for date
U.S.
Army bugle calls (No. 1) by S. W. Smith (U.S.N.) & Bugle Squad,
Edison 4-minute celluloid cylinder No. 3331, recorded August 1, 1917
(Courtesy i78s.org)
U.S.
Army bugle calls (No. 2) by S. W. Smith (U.S.N.) & Bugle Squad,
Edison 4-minute celluloid cylinder No. 3332, recorded August 1, 1917
(Courtesy i78s.org)
Waltz
in A Major
perfomed by Albert Spalding - violin solo of David Hochstein's Arrangement
of Brahms' Waltz
in A Major
for Victor, Record No. 1667-B, Released in 1934 (Courtesy of Internet
Archive).
"We're
All Going Calling on the Kaiser" sung by Arthur Fields and
Peerless Quartette, Columbia Record A2569, Recorded May 13, 1918
"We
stopped them at the Marne," performed by Premier Quartet
, Edison Domestic series 3525, 4-minute Edison Blue Amberol Record,
recorded April 23, 1918
"When
Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" by Marion Harris,
Victor Record No. 18486-A, 1918 (Courtesy of i78s.org)
"When
the Lusitania Went Down" sung by Herbert Stuart, Columbia
Record No. A1772, double-sided disc, recorded May 20, 1915
When
Yankee Doodle Learns to "Parlez Vous Francais"
sung by Arthur Fields, 4-minute
Edison Amberola Record No. 3447, recorded on December 4, 1917 (Courtesy
i78s.org)