Russell Hunting

ACasey at a wake

Label: Zonophone
Catalogue number: 41006
Genre: Comic
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #284

Russell Hunting, 'Casey at a Wake', on Zonophone 41006; Hunting was one of the earliest recording artists, famous for comic Irish-inflected monologues recorded in the acoustic cylinder era, and this side represents the transition to disc recording in the 1900s.

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