Recommendations for 1890's - 1910's music

[Camden Green]

/k/ here,
I've tried all the usual methods such as youtube, /mu, and asking old people, but 2 years' worth of research have not yielded the results I want.
What do you guys know that sounds great to you all?
>inb4 wiki
I've already looked at "year 19XX in music"
I'm into nocturnes, some broadway that's not too comical, and female singers of pop of the era. So far my favorites have been mostly Scott Joplin (solace and maple leaf rag are absolutely important musical history imo), cole Porter, and some Marion Harris and Ruth Etting.
This board is spammed everyday with kpop containment , Thom York fetishes, and that crazy st vincent posting guy, and I can't be the only one to be interested in this era of American and European music, so perhaps others will find this thread interesting as well.
>TL;DR What old shit do you listen to ?

[Henry Green]

I found a picture of you, OP.

[Austin Fisher]

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.

[Ian Roberts]

>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.

[Oliver Foster]

youtube.com/watch?v=MJv6Q5TMBZM

[Parker Peterson]

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

[James Parker]

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.
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?

[Blake Murphy]

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.

[Jacob Russell]

Knock yrself out, ya insufferable bastard.

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=

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=

[Isaac Wright]

This is actually super interesting. Huh.

[Nolan Butler]

>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.

[Jackson Bailey]

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

[Brody Morales]

Thanks .

[Landon Miller]

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.

[Julian Carter]

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

[Gabriel Campbell]

I swear, this guy gets more and more Reddit-tier with every post.

[Justin Miller]

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

[Jose Bailey]

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

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

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

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

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

[Logan Roberts]

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

[Andrew Wright]

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
library.rockhall.com/archival_repositories_collections

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

[Kevin Peterson]

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.