The Craighead County Musical Time Line

 

Craighead County

   
was established a full two decades before the Edison phonograph gave us the ability to enjoy recorded music.  The decade of the 1850s was, however, one that brought a new boom to music publishing when the European rage Barrel Piano (a predecessor to the Player Piano)  started appearing in this country. (An early model that played 3 songs is shown at right):
 

Minstrel shows also brought popular music to the early 1850s Craighead district and tunes being whistled and hummed along the streets.  One popular Civil War era song, AURA LEA became popular once again 95 years after it was written with the release of Elvis Presley's first film, "Love Me Tender"

1. Dixie's Land         2. Beautiful Dreamer          3. Beautiful child of Song

 4.  I Would Not Die In Spring        5.  Nelly Bly       6. Old Folks At Home

 A Faventia barrel piano
     
 7.   Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair    8. My Old Kentucky Home      9. Old Black Joe      10. The Village Maiden 11. For Thee, Love, For Thee
     
 

  12. De Camptown Races               13. Oh! Susanna               14. Aura Lea

  
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Copyrighted MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb
 
 

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