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- Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record, "He Lost Her in the Subway," 1907 - Ada Jones was the first female popular singer to have a career making records. Her popular song recordings were largely humorous ones wherein she demonstrated her skill at using dialects. In this song, "the train began to swerve, we went around a curve" and 14 men fell into her lap! She found a man she liked more than her brand new husband!
- 1907
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Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record, "He Lost Her in the Subway," 1907
Ada Jones was the first female popular singer to have a career making records. Her popular song recordings were largely humorous ones wherein she demonstrated her skill at using dialects. In this song, "the train began to swerve, we went around a curve" and 14 men fell into her lap! She found a man she liked more than her brand new husband!
- Blue Amberol Cylinder Record, "Come out of the Kitchen, Mary Ann," 1917 - In this humorous song, dishwasher Mary Ann daydreams of starring in movies: "Come out of the kitchen, Mary Ann. Why waste your time cooking Irish stew when Mary Pickford and Theda Bara will step aside for you." During the 1910s, movies began to eclipse all other forms of popular entertainment, and many ordinary Americans daydreamed of enjoying the glamorous lifestyles of movie stars.
- 1917
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Blue Amberol Cylinder Record, "Come out of the Kitchen, Mary Ann," 1917
In this humorous song, dishwasher Mary Ann daydreams of starring in movies: "Come out of the kitchen, Mary Ann. Why waste your time cooking Irish stew when Mary Pickford and Theda Bara will step aside for you." During the 1910s, movies began to eclipse all other forms of popular entertainment, and many ordinary Americans daydreamed of enjoying the glamorous lifestyles of movie stars.
- Edison Amberol Record, "Grand Baby, or a Baby Grand?," 1911 - This humorous take on "class warfare" in urban America was sung in upper class and Irish dialects by Ada Jones. Here a lower class Irishwoman complains about the "high toned" lady in the apartment below whose loud piano playing wakes her baby. The upper class lady then complains that the baby's crying disturbs her. In reality, these two classes would never have shared an apartment building!
- 1911
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Edison Amberol Record, "Grand Baby, or a Baby Grand?," 1911
This humorous take on "class warfare" in urban America was sung in upper class and Irish dialects by Ada Jones. Here a lower class Irishwoman complains about the "high toned" lady in the apartment below whose loud piano playing wakes her baby. The upper class lady then complains that the baby's crying disturbs her. In reality, these two classes would never have shared an apartment building!
- Blue Amberol Cylinder Record, "I'll Take you Back to Italy," 1918 - Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe came to America in great numbers during the late 19th and early 20th century. Songs like this one had great appeal to the many Americans born in foreign lands who missed their homeland, its customs, and the relatives they left behind.
- 1918
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Blue Amberol Cylinder Record, "I'll Take you Back to Italy," 1918
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe came to America in great numbers during the late 19th and early 20th century. Songs like this one had great appeal to the many Americans born in foreign lands who missed their homeland, its customs, and the relatives they left behind.