Rollin' and Tumblin' Hambone Willie Newbern

Rollin' and Tumblin' VBR MP3 2.74 mb, Rollin' and Tumblin' OGG format 1.45 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Ripped from the original 78 (mono). Beautifully remastered! This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio. Keywords: opensource audio; blues; delta blues; roots; 78; mono. Creative Commons license: Public Domain Hambone Willie Newburn - "Roll And Tumble Blues"

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Hambone Willie Newbern (1899-1947) Blues musician from the Brownsville, Tennessee area along Tennessee State Route 19. He is said to have played with Yank Rachell and Sleepy John Estes in the 1920s and '30s. He recorded one of the earliest known versions of the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'" in 1929. Newbern was beaten to death in a prison brawl, around 1947 Hambone Willie Newbern

Recorded in 1929, this is the earliest recorded version of the blues classic. Unfortunately Hambone Willie Newburn was known more for his temper then guitar playing. He died in a prison riot in 1947. Hambone Willie Newburn – “Roll And Tumble Blues”

Alice in Wonderland (1903)

Alice in Wonderland 512Kb MPEG4 format 31 mb Alice in Wonderland MPEG2 125 mb. Alice in Wonderland OGV format 31 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGV format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. animated gif, 17 frames

Alice in Wonderland (1903), is a British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, it was the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The film is memorable for its use of special effects, including Alice's shrinking in the Hall of Many Doors, and in her large size, stuck inside of White Rabbit's home, reaching for help through a window.

Only one copy of the film is known to exist with a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive). The British Film Institute has partially restored the movie and its original film tinting on February 24, 2010.

This Image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 are copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 (in this case 1911) are now in the public domain.

Directed by: Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow
Written by: Lewis Carroll (book), Cecil M. Hepworth
Starring: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth, Mrs. Cecil Hepworth, Norman Whitten
Cinematography: Cecil M. Hepworth
Distributed by: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Edison Manufacturing Company, Kleine Optical Company
Release date(s): October 17, 1903
Running time: approx. 8:19 minutes
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language: Silent film

This movie is part of the collection: Short Format Films
Director: Cecil Hepworth
Producer: Cecil Hepworth
Production Company: Hepworth Manufacturing Co.
Audio/Visual: silent, b/w
Keywords: Alice in Wonderland, silents, BFI, British Film Institute, Lewis Carroll, Tim Burton, Disney, Silent Movie, Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow, Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Hole Queen of Hearts, Frog Footman, Mad Hatter, March Hare.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 14

Mozart String Quartet No. 14 VBR MP3 4.90 mb, Mozart String Quartet No. 14 OGG format 3.26 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.



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Performance Licence: The first movement of Mozart's String Quartet No. 14.

It was converted from Image: String Quartet No. 14, movement 1.mid, which is itself from the Mutopia project, number 245, specifically k387-score-1.mid from k387-mids.zip. Mutopia credits "Breitkopf und Härtel (1882)" as their source.

Note that this is synthesized music, not a live recording.

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This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keywords: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; String Quartet No. 14; Classical
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

The Toreador Song from Carmen by Georges Bizet

Noise removed, bass boosted and normalized, with Audacity by sookietex. Toreador Song VBR MP3 2.27 mb, Toreador Song OGG format 1.22 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, best known for the opera Carmen.

The Toreador Song by the Damrosch (New York Symphony) Orchestra. Orchestral arrangement of the Toreador Song from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, played by the Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.



Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845. Adapted from the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. This MP3 (or other media file) is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) and that most commonly runs for a period of 70 years from December 31st of that year.

Performance Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. In this case Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: New York Symphony Orchestra
Keywords: Toreador Song; Carmen; Opera; Georges Bizet
Creative Commons license: Public Domain