Arthur Collins - I'd Leave My Happy Home For You (November 10, 1900) on Victor Talking Machine 1908

Описание: This unique one-sided disc dates as November 10, 1900. It was manufactured in the USA by what would officially become the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901.

Given its historical importance as an example of a very early sound recording on a disc format, I've played it only this once on my 1908 model Victor Talking Machine in order to record it and share it as it would have been enjoyed in that early era. The sound quality is somewhat acceptable, despite it being quite worn when I acquired it.

Performed by: Arthur Collins
Composers: Harry Von Tilzer - William A. Heelan

Lyrics:

A gal i knew, a nice gal too
Till someone told her she knew how to act
Then that baby blew ev'ry solitary soul
Chasin' roun' to cheap theatres that's a fact
At last she got acquanted with an actor
Who was painted like a darky in the show
And she followed him aroun' till the night they quit the town
Then she said: please take me with you when you go
For

I'd leave my happy home for you, oh
You're the nicest man i ever knew, oh
If you take me and just break me in the bus'ness too, oh
I'd leave my happy home for you oh

He said he'd shake the show
And take that lady with a comp'ny of his own
But he packed his grip and he took a quiet trip
And he left that little baby all alone
He tried his best to skip her but she used to buy the clipper
What the actor's news was in
When she found out where he went
Ev'ry day a note she sent
This is just how ev'ry letter would begin
Well

I'd leave my happy home for you, oh
You're the nicest man i ever knew, oh
If you take me and just break me in the bus'ness too, oh
I'd leave my happy home for you oh