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Past Voices
I've been restoring old recordings for a few years now. Mostly I focus on spoken word tracks. I have several political campaign speeches, authors reading from their works, the world's greatest explorers and scientists reminiscing about past achievements, and just plain interesting people. I've wanted to come out with a CD for some time now containing some of the most important recordings. After managing to whittle this motley assemblage down to just twenty five tracks, I think it's finally ready for center stage.
*11-20-07 The CD started selling today. Click on the link below.
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Politicians
1 William Jennings Bryan
Title: Immortality (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: 1908
Details: Bryan ran for the presidency in 1908.
He was the well-known lawyer who participated in the Scopes Monkey Trial
2 Woodrow Wilson
Title: Address To American Indians
Recording Date: 1913
Details: American President
3 Grover Cleveland
Title: Unknown (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: 1892
Details: American President
4 William McKinley
Title: Unknown (Speech at Republican Convention)
Recording Date: 1896
Details: American President
5 William Howard Taft
Title: Rights and Progress of the Negro (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: 1908
Details: American President
6 Theodore Roosevelt
Title: The Right of the People to Rule (Campaign Speech)
Recording Date: August 1912
Details: American President
7 Garrett A. Hobart (Vice President)
Title: Words of Welcome
Recording Date: May 1, 1898
Details: American Vice President
Inventors & Explorers
8 Lt. Ernest H. Shackleton
Title: My South Polar Expedition
Recording Date: March 30, 1910
Details: Explorer famous for his South Pole Expedition
9 Commander Robert E Peary
Title: The Discovery Of The North Pole
Recording Date: 1910
Details: Explorer famous for his North Pole Expedition
10 Thomas A. Watson
Title: Unknown (Talking About Bell Inventing the Telephone)
Recording Date: 1914
Details: Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
11 Thomas A. Edison
Title: "Let Us never Forget" (Talking About the Aftermath of WWI)
Recording Date: 1916
Details: The well-known inventor
Authors & Poets
12 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Title: Unknown (Talking About Sherlock Holmes and Spiritualism)
Recording Date: May 14, 1930
Details: The well-known author of Sherlock Holmes
13 WB Yeats
Title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Reading From His Poem)
Recording Date: October 4, 1932
Details: The most famous poet at the turn of the 20th century
14 George Bernard Shaw
Title: Einstein and the Jews (Speech Promoting Jewry at an Event Honoring Einstein)
Recording Date: October 28, 1930
Details: Famous playwright
15 G.K. Chesterton
Title: The Spices Of Life
Recording Date: Unknown (Mid 1930's)
Details: Perhaps the most prolific author of all-time
16 Oscar Wilde
Title: The Ballad Of Reading Jail (Reading From His Poem)
Recording Date: 1898
Details: Well-known, but highly controversial author/poet
17 Leo Tolstoy
Title: "For Every Day" (Reading From His Book in English)
Recording Date: 1907
Details: Well-known Russian novelist
Interesting Persons
18 Harry Houdini
Title: The Chinese Water Torture Chamber (Practicing Spiel During a Rehearsal)
Recording Date: 1914
Details: Magician/escape artist
19 Florence Nightingale
Title: Greetings to the Dear Old Comrades of Balaclava (Speech for Veteran's Benefit)
Recording Date: July 30, 1890
Details: The most famous nurse of all-time
20 Edwin Booth
Title: "Othello" (Reading from Shakespeare)
Recording Date: 1892
Details: The most famous 19th century actor and brother of John Wilkes Booth
21 General Nelson A. Miles
Title: Unknown (Remarks During His Visit at the Edison Laboratory)
Recording Date: December 28, 1914
Details: Major General for the Union Army during the Civil War,
led the defeat of Apache leader Geronimo in 1886, Commander of the
United States Army during the Spanish-American War
22 Andrew Carnegie
Title: Unknown (This is the Audio From a Lost Edison Kinetophone Movie)
Recording Date: January 20, 1914
Details: Industrialist and philanthropist
23 William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
Title: "Sentiments on the Cuban Question"
Recording Date: April 20, 1898
Details: Urges US intrusion in Cuba before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
24 General William Booth
Title: Salvation Army Speech
Recording Date: 1902
Details: Minister and founder of the Salvation Army
25 Pope Leo XIII
Title: Benediction To The Catholic People
Recording Date: 1903
Details: 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church