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Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody: Historical Recording and Credits

Rock-a-bye your baby with a Dixie melody: Catalogue date: 1918-11-06. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Ethnic characterizations; Popular music.

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Catalogue description

Male vocal solo, with violin and orchestra

Victor 18512. Matrix/Take: B-22407/2.

Recording and performance details

  • Catalogue date: 1918-11-06
  • Original format: Sound recording
  • Genre: Ethnic characterizations; Popular music
  • Language: English
  • Location as catalogued: Camden, New Jersey
  • Collection: National Jukebox
  • Repository: Recorded Sound Section, Library Of Congress
  • Record label: Victor
  • Catalogue number: 18512
  • Matrix number: B-22407 (Matrix ID)
  • Take number: 2
  • Disc size: 10-inch
  • Performance type: Vocal
  • Catalogue subjects: Vocal; Ethnic characterizations; Victor; Popular music
  • Named contributors: Rattay, Howard — Instrumentalist -- Violin; Lewis, Sam M. — Lyricist; Pasternack, Josef — Conductor; Schwartz, Jean — Composer; Young, Joe — Lyricist; Dalhart, Vernon — Vocalist -- Tenor Vocal

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