The Bookhouse Records

Home Again — Episode 9 of The Bookhouse Records.Twelve discs about home, 1905 to 1924: the most famous home song ever written sung by a great soprano, a church scene from the old homestead, a little grey house in the west, a dance-band homecoming in Tennessee, a tenor longing for his Dixie home, two old friends back home on the farm, a trail that leads to home sweet home, a Kentucky home in four-part harmony, a hometown remembered, a promise to be home tomorrow, a little dog told not to forget the way back, and two voices dreaming together of the house they left behind.The discs:1. Home, Sweet Home — Adelina Patti (1905)2. Church Scene from "The Old Homestead" — Harmony Quartette (1908)3. The Little Grey Home in the West — John McCormack (1914)4. Back Home in Tennessee — Armand Vecsey and His Hungarian Orchestra (1915)5. Longing for My Dixie Home — Harvey Hindermyer (1917)6. Back Home on the Farm — Billy Golden and William Hughes (1919)7. Down the Trail to Home Sweet Home — Billy Jones (1920)8. My Old Kentucky Home — Trinity Mixed Quartette (1921)9. In My Home Town — Arthur Fields (1922)10. I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again To-morrow — Harry Blake (1922)11. Little Rover (Don't Forget to Come Back Home) — Ernest Hare (1923)12. Dreaming of My Old Home, Sweet Home — Walter Scanlan and Helen Clark (1924)Every recording you heard is public domain in the United States (recorded 1905–1924). Sources: the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project. The crackle is not damage — it's the sound of a hundred years, still spinning.The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrintsAnd before we close — a word about the Choir: The Brimstone Choir's first album, Seven Seals, is streaming now everywhere you listen — Spotify, Apple Music, and all the rest — and for sale on Gumroad. Their second album, Exodus, is live on Suno right now.Seven Seals on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2M3fhK23Ib6OB7kCrfq6WRSeven Seals on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/seven-seals/6827022914Brimstone Choir on Gumroad: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.comExodus on Suno: https://suno.com/album/ea64ac57-bad4-436a-ae35-30fc75e75dc4

Winter's Door — Episode 8 of The Bookhouse Records.Twelve discs that belong to winter, 1905 to 1923: sleigh bells on a winter road, a promise asked in December, snow whiter than snow, footprints followed after a fresh fall, roses underneath the snow, a comic question about where the flies go, a troika at full gallop, rain turning to snow, a song about winter coming, a four-part winter song, a carol in the stillness, and a blues cold enough to bite.The discs:1. Merry Sleigh Bells (1905)2. Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May — Harry Macdonough & Haydn Quartet (1906)3. Whiter than Snow — church choir (1911)4. Follow the Footprints in the Snow — Tom Temple (1913)5. Roses Underneath the Snow — Hatherley Clarke (1917)6. Where Do Flies Go in the Winter Time? — Jack Pleasants (1919)7. Troika (In a Three Horse Sleigh) — Sergei Rachmaninoff (1920)8. When the Rain Turns into Snow (Who's Gonna Keep You Warm) — Lavinia Turner (1921)9. If Winter Comes — Sidney Hamilton (1922)10. Winter Song — Shannon Four (1922)11. See Amid the Winter's Snow — John McCormack (1923)12. Cold Cold Winter Blues — Lucille Hegamin and the Dixie Daisies (1923)Every recording you heard is public domain in the United States (recorded 1905–1923). Sources: the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project. The crackle is not damage — it's the sound of a hundred years, still spinning.The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrintsAnd before we close — a word about the Choir: The Brimstone Choir's first album, Seven Seals, is streaming now everywhere you listen — Spotify, Apple Music, and all the rest — and for sale on Gumroad. Their second album, Exodus, is live on Suno right now.Seven Seals on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2M3fhK23Ib6OB7kCrfq6WRSeven Seals on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/seven-seals/6827022914Brimstone Choir on Gumroad: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.comExodus on Suno: https://suno.com/album/ea64ac57-bad4-436a-ae35-30fc75e75dc4

Autumn Gold — Episode 7 of The Bookhouse Records.

Twelve discs that belong to autumn, 1908 to 1923: harvest days over, a harvest moon, a promise to come home at harvest time, summer saying goodbye, sweet September, two dreams of autumn, a sisters' Thanksgiving, brown October ale, leaves beginning to fall, a November rose, and a question, in four-part harmony, about what the harvest will be.

The discs:

1. When the Harvest Days Are Over — Herbert Payne (1908)

2. Under the Harvest Moon — Al H. Wilson (1908)

3. I'll Be Home at Harvest Time — Metropolitan Trio (1909)

4. When Summer Tells Autumn Good-Bye — Stanley and Burr (1910)

5. In Sweet September — Harold Wilde (1910)

6. Dream of Autumn — American Symphony Orchestra (1913)

7. Songe d'Automne (Dream of Autumn) — Empire Symphony Orchestra (1914)

8. Thanksgiving — Elsie and Dorothy Southgate (1916)

9. Brown October Ale — Reinald Werrenrath (1920)

10. When the Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall — Reed Miller (1921)

11. November Rose — Robert White (1922)

12. What Shall the Harvest Be? — Metropolitan Quartet (1923)

Every recording you heard is public domain in the United States (recorded 1908–1923). Sources: the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project. The crackle is not damage — it's the sound of a hundred years, still spinning.

The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

And before we close — a word about the Choir: The Brimstone Choir's first album, Seven Seals, is streaming now everywhere you listen — Spotify, Apple Music, and all the rest — and for sale on Gumroad. Their second album, Exodus, is live on Suno right now.

Seven Seals on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2M3fhK23Ib6OB7kCrfq6WR

Seven Seals on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/seven-seals/6827022914

Brimstone Choir on Gumroad: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.com

Exodus on Suno: https://suno.com/album/ea64ac57-bad4-436a-ae35-30fc75e75dc4

By the Sea — Episode 6 of The Bookhouse Records.Twelve discs that belong to the sea, 1901 to 1925: a band dreaming of the ocean, Harlan's village by the sea, the waltz everybody knew, Caruso at dawn over heaven and ocean, chanties from a working deck, a Viking setting out, Gershwin's south seas, the Gin Gin Ginny shore, a sapphire waltz, Irish reels like weather, a golden shore at sundown, and a beach party in nineteen twenty-five, still going.The discs:1. Dream of the Ocean Waltz — band (1901)2. In the Village by the Sea — Byron G. Harlan (1903)3. Over the Waves Waltz — orchestra (1905)4. Gioconda: Cielo e mar (Heaven and Ocean) — Enrico Caruso (1911)5. Medley of Sea Chanties — Standard Male Quartette (1914)6. Viking Song — Emilio de Gogorza (1918)7. South Sea Isles — Casino Dance Orchestra (1921)8. On the Gin Gin Ginny Shore — Synco Jazz Band (1921)9. By the Sapphire Sea — Green Bros. Novelty Band (1922)10. Witch of the Waves — Joseph Samuels and Larry Briers (1923)11. On the Golden Shore — Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra (1924)12. Bam Bam Bamy Shore — Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra (1925)Every recording you heard is public domain in the United States (recorded 1901–1925). Sources: the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project. The crackle is not damage — it's the sound of a hundred years, still spinning.The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

Down by the River — Episode 5 of The Bookhouse Records.

Twelve discs that follow a river, 1904 to 1925: the Blue Danube twice — twenty-one years apart — Henry Burr on the Shannon, a duet on the Rhine, Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist on the Swanee, a tongue-twister on the Mississippi, Flo Bert's river home, Gershwin's Swanee in full dance stride, the Shannon Four on the Wabash, a moonlit waltz, ripples with no words at all, and one last bend in the Swanee.

The discs:
1. The Blue Danube Waltz — orchestra (1904)
2. Where the River Shannon Flows — Henry Burr (1910)
3. By the Dear Old River Rhine — Albert Campbell and Henry Burr (Victor, 1911)
4. Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) — Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist (1914)
5. I Miss That Mississippi Miss that Misses Me — Sterling Trio (1918)
6. Bless My Swanee River Home — Flo Bert (1919)
7. Swanee — Al Bernard and Frank M. Kamplain (1920)
8. On the Bank of the Wabash — Shannon Four (1921)
9. Swanee River Moon — Symphonia Dance Orchestra (1922)
10. Mississippi Ripples — Casino Dance Orchestra (1923)
11. There's a Bend at the End of the Swanee — Harry Barth's Novelty Orchestra (1924)
12. The Blue Danube — Edith Lorand Orchestra (1925)

Every recording you heard is public domain in the United States (recorded 1904–1925). Sources: the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project and the Library of Congress National Jukebox. The crackle is not damage — it's the sound of a hundred years, still spinning.

The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

Special: The Haunted Jukebox No. 6 — Seven SealsA Bookhouse Records special.A companion to this week's Bookhouse Records spin, The Iron Horse — this special opens with a voice from inside that episode: Harry C. Browne's 1922 gospel train. Hear the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XCoKh43ha0HkjDIz0AQHCThe subject is the oldest one there is: John, exiled on the island of Patmos, and the book of the seven seals — thunder, lightning, and a world about to be unrolled. The traditional song on that subject, "John the Revelator," is one of the most covered in American music, but its touchstone disc — Blind Willie Johnson's — was cut in 1930, too young for this shelf. So in this special you first hear an older gospel voice: Harry C. Browne and his quartet singing twenty seconds of "De Gospel Train Am Comin'" from their 1922 disc.Then the subject takes a new road. "Seven Seals" is a brand-new song written for this recording — the exile and the sealed book taken at 1977 punk speed: three chords, a snarled lead vocal, and the gang answering in call and response.Own the new recording: The Haunted Jukebox No. 6 — Seven Seals, by BookhouseGet the track: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.com/l/haunted-jukebox-6-seven-sealsThe lyric of "Seven Seals" is an original Bookhouse work, written for this recording; its subject is scriptural and traditional — the exile of John on Patmos and the book of the seven seals. "De Gospel Train Am Comin'" (1922) is public domain. Source for the 1922 disc: Internet Archive, Great 78 Project.The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.From the print room of the Bookhouse: this record's cover is a poster — the exile on the rocks, writing in the great book while the storm tears open. Hang the cover, spin the record: this poster and the track are two halves of one release. Square poster: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4602351604/bookhouse-prints-seven-seals-o-storm — Portrait poster: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4602352624/bookhouse-prints-seven-seals-o-storm — Bookhouse Prints, old art, brought home again: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

Special: The Haunted Jukebox No. 5 — You'll Be Here

A Bookhouse Records special.

A companion to this week's Bookhouse Records spin, The Iron Horse — the gospel train rolls through it, bound for the country this hymn sings about. Hear the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XCoKh43ha0HkjDIz0AQHC

The Londonderry Air is an old Irish folk tune. In 1913, Fred Weatherly set words to it and the world got "Danny Boy" — a farewell, sung by the one who stays behind to the one who must go. In this special you hear Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the great contralto, sing twenty seconds of it from her 1917 disc.

Then the air takes a new road. "You'll Be Here" is a new hymn written for this recording on that same air — the farewell become a promise. The one who goes out into the world, and the Lord who abides, in sunshine or in shadow, until the homecoming. Sung by a woman's voice with a women's choir, in a slow gospel sway: church piano, Hammond organ, and handclaps as it lifts.

Own the new recording: The Haunted Jukebox No. 5 — You'll Be Here (Londonderry Gospel), by Bookhouse

Get the track: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.com/l/haunted-jukebox-5-youll-be-here

The Londonderry Air is a traditional folk melody, public domain. Fred Weatherly's "Danny Boy" lyric (1913) is public domain in the United States; the hymn lyric heard here is an original Bookhouse work, written for this recording. Source for the 1917 disc: Internet Archive, Great 78 Project.

The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

From the print room of the Bookhouse: this record's cover is a poster — dawn over the glen, the little white church, the choir in the first light. Hang the cover, spin the record: this poster and the track are two halves of one release. Square poster: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4602295487/bookhouse-prints-youll-be-here-o-dawn — Portrait poster: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4602296927/bookhouse-prints-youll-be-here-o-dawn — Bookhouse Prints, old art, brought home again: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

The Iron Horse — Episode 4 of The Bookhouse Records.

Twelve discs about the railroad, 1910 to 1925: the ballad of Casey Jones, a xylophone girl on a 1910 Zonophone, a comic monologue about the train that leaves at eleven sixty-nine, Irving Berlin's midnight choo-choo, Uncle Josh's Punkin Center depot, the Benson Orchestra's Railroad Blues, Isham Jones and the Wabash Blues, Harry Browne's gospel train, Sam Lanin's Railroad Man, Ernest Thompson's Lightning Express, a honeymoon aboard the midnight choo-choo, and Merritt Brunies inviting you to flag that train.

The discs:

1. Casey Jones — duet (Standard, 1910)

2. The Girl in the Train — xylophone solo with orchestra (Zonophone, 1910)

3. The 11:69 Express — comic monologue (Columbia, 1911)

4. When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam' — Collins and Harlan (Victor, 1912)

5. Train Time at Pun'kin Centre — Cal Stewart as Uncle Josh (Columbia, 1919)

6. Railroad Blues — Benson Orchestra of Chicago (Victor, 1920)

7. The Wabash Blues — Isham Jones Orchestra (Brunswick, 1921)

8. De Gospel Train Am Comin' — Harry C. Browne (OKeh, 1922)

9. Railroad Man — Sam Lanin's Roseland Dance Orchestra (OKeh, 1923)

10. Lightning Express — Ernest Thompson (Columbia, 1924)

11. Oh! Flo! (On a Midnight Choo-Choo Honeymoon) — Dixie Daisies (1924)

12. Flag That Train — Merritt Brunies and his Friars Inn Orchestra (1925)

Every recording you heard is public domain in the United States (recorded 1910–1925). Sources: the Internet Archive's Great 78 Project and the Library of Congress National Jukebox. The crackle is not damage — it's the sound of a hundred years, still spinning.

The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

Special: The Haunted Jukebox No. 4 — Mysterious Blues

A Bookhouse Records special.

In Episode 3 of this show, "Ghosts on the Groove," you heard the Synco Jazz Band play "Mysterious Blues" — a fox trot by J. S. Zamecnik, recorded in November 1921. This special is that tune's second life.

First, twenty seconds of the original 1921 disc. Then the rebirth — Bookhouse re-imagines the fox trot as slow Jamaican dub in the manner of the great Kingston studios of the 1970s: a deep melodic bass leading the mix, rimshot drums echoing into spring reverb, muted trumpet and clarinet drifting through long tape echo, and a short chant written for this recording — "Something's moving in the midnight blue."

Own the new recording: The Haunted Jukebox No. 4 — Mysterious Blues (Dub Reimagining), by Bookhouse

Get the track: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.com/l/haunted-jukebox-4-mysterious-blues

Hang the cover, spin the record: this episode's cover art is a Bookhouse Prints poster — square 12x12 https://www.etsy.com/listing/4601749533 and portrait https://www.etsy.com/listing/4601777932

The original recording (1921) and the composition (1921) are public domain in the United States. Source for the original: Internet Archive, Great 78 Project.

The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints

A Bookhouse Records special.

In Episode 3 of this show, "Ghosts on the Groove," you heard Bessie Smith sing "Haunted House Blues" — recorded on January 9, 1924. This special is that song's second life.

First, a few seconds of the original 1924 disc: the last verse, the way it sounded a hundred and two years ago. Then the rebirth — Bookhouse re-imagines J. C. Johnson's 1924 blues as snappy 1950s rockabilly: slapback guitar, a slapping upright bass, a hiccupping lead vocal, and new verses written for this recording around the song's own famous couplet — "I'm scared to stay here, I'm scared to leave this town."

Own the new recording: The Haunted Jukebox No. 3 — Haunted House Blues (Rockabilly Reimagining), by Bookhouse

Get the track: https://bookhousereadings.gumroad.com/l/lrlda

The cover painting is also a poster at Bookhouse Prints on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4601643554/bookhouse-prints-haunted-house-blues-o (square) and https://www.etsy.com/listing/4601646246/bookhouse-prints-haunted-house-blues-o (portrait).

The original recording (Columbia, 1924) and the composition (1924) are public domain in the United States. Source for the original: Library of Congress National Jukebox.

The Bookhouse Records is value for value, like its sister show, The Bookhouse Readings. If these records gave you value, return value in kind: share the show with a friend, or send a contribution at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BookhouseReadings — whatever it was worth to you.

From the print room of the Bookhouse: Bookhouse Prints is our sister shelf of public-domain wall art — vintage plates and engravings, verified one by one and prepared ready to print and frame. Collection No. 1: A Parliament of Owls — 20 vintage owl prints. Old art, brought home again. Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookhousePrints