From WFMU‘s wonderful Free Music Archive, Harry E. Humphrey and the choir boys of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City with “Our National Song” – a rather haunting mix of stirring spoken word and an elegiac choral version of the Star Spangled Banner. From a 1916 Edison Blue Amberol wax cylinder. More information about this recording – and other patriotic 4th of July-type stuff from the archive – on the FMA web site.
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