Finding Aid for Nick Kaufman Collection of American Wind Band and Orchestra Sound Recordings, circa 1897-1923 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

By Emily Schneider

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Item 1: The Cake Walk in Coontown, 1905

An Evening With the Minstrels No. 6., 10 in. disc, Victor: 1828. Damaged.

Item 2: Herbert L. Clarke, 1901

My Black Pearl, 10 in. disc, Victor: 3436.  Accompaniment by Sousa's Band.

Item 3: Clarke and Bellstedt, 1905

The Friendly Rivals (Godfrey), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4423.  Accompanied by Sousa's Band.

Item 4: Clarke and Millhouse, 1906

The Swiss Boy (Tyrolean Air), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4753.  Accompanied by Sousa's Band.

Item 5: Clarke, Rogers, and Bellstedt, 1905

The Three Solitaires (Herbert), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4456.  Accompanied by Sousa's Band.

Item 6: Clarke and Zimmerman, 1906

"Cousins" (Clarke), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4716.  Accompanied by Sousa's Band.

Item 7: Garde Republicaine Band, 1905

Amour et Printemps Valse (Waldteufel), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4116.

Item 8: German Calvary Band, 1907

Parade Post with Kaiser Friedrich March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 5255.

Item 9: J.W. Myers with orchestra, 1907

The Bowery Grenadiers (Kelly), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4968.

Item 10: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1904

Ben Hur Chariot Race March (Paull), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4085.

Item 11: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1907

Carmen Selection (Bizet), 10 in. disc, Victor: 5074.

Item 12: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905

The Climax Medley Overture (O'Hare), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4143.

Item 13: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1904-1906

Coon Band Contest (Pryor), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4069.

Item 14: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1908

"Distand Greetings" March (Doring), 10 in. disc, Victor: 5457.

Item 15: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905-1907

"Dixie", 10 in. disc, Victor: 4350.

Item 16: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1904-1905

Forge in the Forest (Michaelis) Descriptive Idyl, 10 in. disc, Victor: 2789.

Item 17: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905

Hawaiian Hymn, 10 in. disc, Victor:4401

Item 18: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1904

Meet Me in St. Louis Medley Waltz, 10 in. disc, Victor: 2960.

Item 19: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905

Merry Wives of Windsor Overture (Nicolai), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4141.

Item 20: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1906

Priscilla (Henry) Colonial Intermezzo and Two Step, 10 in. disc, Victor: 4645.

Item 21: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1903

Rifle Regiment March, 10 in. disc, Victor:2585.

Item 22: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1904

Russian National Anthem, 10 in. disc, Victor: 2785.

Item 23: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1908

Ruy Blas Overture (Marchetti), 10 in. disc, Victor: 5430.

Item 24: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905

The Sentry March (Haskin), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4161.

Item 25: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905

Spanish Patriotic Airs: A. National Air-"Hymne de Riego" (Huerta), B. Royal March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 4201.

Item 26: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1905

Sylvia Ballet-Valse Lente (Leo Delibes), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4312.

Item 27: Arthur Pryor's Band, 1904

Vienna Beauties Waltz (Ziehrer), 10 in. disc, Victor: 2779.

Item 28: Pryor's Orchestra, 1903-1906

Stephanie Gavotte, 10 in. disc, Victor: 2591.

Item 29: Pryor's Orchestra, 1904

Uncle Sammy March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 2692.

Item 30: Sousa's Band, 1902-1903

The American Patrol, 7 in. disc, Victor: 382.

Item 31: Sousa's Band, 1902-1903

American Patrol, 10 in. disc, Victor: 382

Item 32: Sousa's Band, 1905

Amoureuse-Valse Lente (Berger), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4454.

Item 33: Sousa's Band, 1904

At a Georgia Camp Meeting, 10 in. disc, Victor: 315.

Item 34: Sousa's Band, 1902

The Blue and Gray Patrol, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1171.

Item 35: Sousa's Band, 1901

The Blue and Gray Patrol, 10 in. disc, Victor: 3260.

Item 36: Sousa's Band, 1905

Blue Bell-Humoresque (arr. Herman Bellstedt, Jr.), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4376.

Item 37: Sousa's Band, ca. 1899

The Chalatan March, 7 in. disc, Berliner: 076.  Label comments: Arthur Pryor 4/22/99.

Item 38: Sousa's Band, 1906

Cherry-Two-step (Albert), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4867.

Item 39: Sousa's Band, 1901

A Coon Band Contest, 10 in. disc, Victor: 312.

Box 2

Item 1: Sousa's Band, 1904-1905

Creole Belles, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1182.

Item 2: Sousa's Band, 1905

Damnation of Faust (Berlioz), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4414.

Item 3: Sousa's Band, 1902

El Capitan March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 304.

Item 4: Sousa's Band, 1906

Flying Arrow (Holzmann) (Intermezzo Indienne), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4718.

Item 5: Sousa's Band, 1906

The Free Lance March (Sousa), 8 in. disc, Victor: 4699. Damaged.

Item 6: Sousa's Band, 1905

German Patriotic Air: "Die Wacht am Rhein" (Wilhelm), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4196.

Item 7: Sousa's Band, 1906

Hail to the Spirit of Liberty March (Sousa), 8 in. disc, Victor: 365. Damaged.

Item 8: Sousa's Band, 1903-1905

Handel's Largo, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1440.

Item 9: Sousa's Band, 1900-1901

Hands Across the Sea, 10 in. disc, Victor: 300.

Item 10: Sousa's Band, 1905

Hapsburg March (Kral) (Hoch Hapsburg), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4415.

Item 11: Sousa's Band, 1903-1912

A Hot Time in the Old Town, 10 in. disc, Victor: 316.

Item 12: Sousa's Band, 1903-1908

Invincible Eagle March (Sousa), 10 in. disc, Victor: 844.

Item 13: Sousa's Band, 1906

Iola-Intermezzo (Johnson), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4862.

Item 14: Sousa's Band, 1901

Jolly Fellows' Waltz, 7 in. disc, Victor: 1174.

Item 15: Sousa's Band, 1901

Jolly Fellows Waltz, 10 in. disc, Victor: 3246.

Item 16: Sousa's Band, 1902

La Paloma, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1190.

Item 17: Sousa's Band, 1906

La Sorella, 10 in. disc, Victor: 4744.

Item 18: Sousa's Band, 1902

The Liberty Bell March, 7 in. disc, Victor: 1193.

Item 19: Sousa's Band, 1902

The Lily Bells, 10 in. disc, Victor: 339.

Item 20: Sousa's Band, 1900-1901

The Mosquito Parade, 7 in. disc, Victor: 337. Damage.

Item 21: Sousa's Band, 1903

Narcissus, 10 in. disc, Victor: 354.

Item 22: Sousa's Band, ca. 1897

Nearer My God to Thee, 10 in. disc, Berliner: 8004.  Label comments: Henry Higgens.

Item 23: Sousa's Band, 1902

Overture, Morning, Noon and Night, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1430.

Item 24: Sousa's Band, 1902

Patrol, Rose, Thistle and Shamrock, 7 in. disc, Victor: 1194.

Item 25: Sousa's Band, 1904

Poet and Peasant Overture, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1552.

Item 26: Sousa's Band, 1902

The Rajah March, 7 in. disc, Victor: 1443.

Item 27: Sousa's Band, 1905

Ramona (Johnson) (Indian Intermezzo and Two-Step), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4218.

Item 28: Sousa's Band, 1901

Semper Fidelis March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1175. Damaged.

Item 29: Sousa's Band, 1910

Siamese Patrol (Lincke), 10 in. disc, Victor: 5766.

Item 30: Sousa's Band, 1906

Silence and Fun (Mullen), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4538.

Item 31: Sousa's Band, 1903-1908

Stars and Stripes Forever March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 306.

Item 32: Sousa's Band, 1902

The Star Spangled Banner, 10 in. disc, Victor: 336.

Item 33: Sousa's Band, 1903-1908

The Thunderer March, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1437.

Item 34: Sousa's Band, 1901

Valse, Rose von Schiras, 10 in. disc, Victor: 3443.

Item 35: Sousa's Band, 1902

Valse, "Rose von Shiras", 10 in. disc, Victor: 1831.

Item 36: Sousa's Band, 1905

The Warbler's Serenade, 10 in. disc, Victor: 1168.

Item 37: Sousa's Band, 1900-1901

Whistling Rufus, 7 in. disc, Victor: 361.

Item 38: Sousa's Band, 1900-1901

The White Rat March, 10 in. disc, Victor: A-371.

Item 39: Sousa's Band, 1904-1905

Zampa Overture, 10 in. disc, Victor: 363.

Item 40: U.S. Marine Band, 1907

Brooke's Triumphal March (Lietz) (Washington), 10 in. disc, Victor: 4910.

Box 3

Item 1: Bauernkappelle (Peasant), 1922-1923

Walzer-Potpourri No. /Walzer-Potpourri No. 2, 12 in. disc, Victor Batwing: 68612.  Band with Male Chorus.

Item 2: International Concert Orchestra - Nathaniel Shilkret, director, 1926

Danube Waves-Waltz (J. Ivanovici)/Over the Waves-Waltz (Juventino Rosas), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35774

Item 3: International Novelty Orchestra, 1923

University Lancers-Part 1 (Theo. Moses-Tobani)/University Lancers-Part 2, 12 in. disc, Victor: 35723

Item 4: Kryl's Bohemian Band, 1911

Pepe Polka (J. Pebel)/Smes ces Kych pisni ("Gems of Bohemia"-Safranek), 12 in. disc, Victor: 68296. Damaged.

Item 5: Sir Harry Lauder

I'm Going to Marry 'Arry on the 5th of January (Lauder)/O'er the Hill to Ardenteny (Lauder), 12 in. disc, Victor: 55138.

Item 6: Harry Lauder, 1914

It's Nice to Get Up in the Mornin' But It's Nicer to Lie in Bed! (Lauder), 12 in. disc, Victor: 70107.

Item 7: Sir Harry Lauder, 1921

My Bonnie Bonnie Jean (Lauder)/Breakfast in Bed on Sunday Morn (Lauder), 12 in. disc, Victor: 55119.

Item 8: Sir Harry Lauder

I Love to Be a Sailor (Lauder)/We Parted on the Shore, 12 in. disc, Victor: 55118

Item 9: Sousa's Band, 1909

La Paloma (Yradier), 12 in. disc, Victor: 31727.

Item 10: Victor Military Band, 1916

America, I Love You--One-Step (Leslie-Gottler)/You'd Never Know That Old Home Town of Mine--Medley Fox Trot ("Along the Mississippie Shoe", "In the GLory of the Moonlight", "At the Old Plantation Bail", "You'd Never Know that Old Home Town of Mine"), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35516.

Item 11: Victor Military Band, 1916

Bugle Call Rag--Fox Trot/Some Sort of Somebody--Fox Trot (from "Very Good Eddie") ("Old Boy Neutral", "Babes in the Wood", and "Some Sort of Somebody"), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35533.

Item 12: Victor Military Band, 1916

I Can Dance with Everybody but My Wife--Medley One-Step ("I Can Dance with Everybody", "My Fox Trot Wedding Day", "The Indian Fox Trot Ball")/Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula--Medley Fox Trot ("Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula", "Long Live the Ladies"), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35546.

Item 13: Victor Military Band, 1917

I Can Hear the Ukuleles Calling Me--Medley Fox Trot ("Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow", "If You Ever Get Lonely", "Sinbad Was in Bad All the Time", "I Can Hear the Ukuleles Calling Me")/Way Down in Arkansaw--Medley One-Step ("Dancing Down in Dixieland", "Way Down in Dixieland", "Way Down in Arkansaw"), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35635.

Item 14: Victor Military Band, 1916

If I Knock the "L" Out of Kelly--Medley Waltz (Including "By the Sad Luana Shore") (Bert Grant--Ray Goetz)/Canary Cottage--Medley One-Step ("It's Always Orange Day in California", "That Syncopated Harp", Old Man Methusalah") (Earl Carroll), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35579.

Item 15: Victor Military Band, 1914

La Brulante (One-Step or Turkey Trot) (Jessey M. Winne)/Sari Waltzes (Introducting "Love's Own Sweet Song", "Love Has Wings", "My Faithful Stradivari") (Kalman), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35364.

Item 16: Victor Military Band, 1917

So Long, Letty--Medley Fox Trot ("O'Brien is Tryin' to Learn to Talk Hawaiian", "When the Major Plays Those Minor Melodies", "So Long, Letty")/Pass Around the Apples Once Again--Medley One-Step (from "So Long, Letty") ("If the Good Die Young", "Blame it All on the Girls", "Mr. Patrick Henry Must Have Been a Married Man", "Pass Around the Apples Once Again"), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35612.

Item 17: Victor Military Band, 1917

The Two Two Dance (Arthur N. Green)/Broken Doll--Fox Trot or London Taps (James W. Tate), 12 in. disc, Victor: 35599.

Item 18: Evan Williams, 1915

The Lost Chord (Proctor-Sullivan), 12 in. disc, Victor: 74453.