Very isolated areas of ohio sound like this

It's crazy to think that they're all dead now

I didn't notice an accent originally, but now I do notice a little bit

@@lhtyeehaw1319 the lead singer says flag, shouting, cry, and true with much older vowels. They have features that have completely died out in American English since then. It's not really noticeable at first, but if you're trained to listen to the vowel differences then it becomes a lot more obvious.

@@felixjefferson333 thanks for pointing those out, but I still don't hear it

Charlie Theanteater To mess with your head, there are a couple of Revolutionary War veterans photographed

Overland’s Modern Informative Bulletin I know, I’ve seen them. Some of the last revolutionary war vets died after the civil war.

There is a recording of this song from 1904 on here.

Gordon Adams I know, that recording is a lot more eerie to listen to. Knowing that these singers probably met several civil war vets is crazy to think about

@@charlietheanteater3918 Get this, there are people still alive who met Civil War vets. The last one died in the 1950's and in the 1930's there were still a bunch in their 90's. There is footage from the 50th and 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg you can watch on KZfaq. There is also a couple interviews with civil war vets you can listen too.

Great song. Love the union version and the confederate version equally well

Stanley Reading thanks

That's really interesting because the voices from the records of The Beatles are so clear and concise compared to this cylinder the audio Fidelity is barely tolerable imagine 20,000 years from now if anything survives it won't be that distinguishable from the recorded media of the future does anyone here think that 64-bit audio depth is too little? To them it may just seem like a compressed file without the date metadata they wouldn't know.

it was

No they just changed the lyrics a bit

No mention of the fact ‘although he may be poor he will never be a slave’ either. This version was clearly heavily sanitised to make it more acceptable in the southern states.

“South land true and brave”

​@@awildtannerwasfound5045They removed all the anti-slavery verses

Wait, oh, seven months. This recording, and all made before 1923, will fall into public domain.

well actually it's seems the creator of this video who copyrighted its recording on this phonograph. You can see it in the description if you read carefully what is actually copyrighted and by whom.

@@lolobotius no, some generic company is doing it

Despite being among the Neo-Confederate and “Lost Causer” crowd, we’re in agreement that this video should not receive a copyright strike.

This song is from the 1860s, as is the tune, but indeed!

Actually, it's a postwar version. The last stanza for example, originally had a threat, directed at the confederates: "So we’re springing to the call from the East and from the West, Shouting the battle cry of freedom! And we’ll hurl the rebel crew from the land we love best, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!" You check it out here (along with a southern version--also written during the war): www.civilwarheritagetrails.org/civil-war-music/battle-cry-of-freedom.html

snaplet games I believe there was one recorded in 1904.

Yes, from the Republicans.

@@charles_sumner3088 democrats

@@quagmiredavis4117 because voter suppression and littaraly storming the capitol is saving democracy

🍿 don’t mind me I’m waiting for this to blowup

@@quagmiredavis4117 tell me why democrats

Familiarly classic European in nature for it was very traditional.

Homo Erectus I can confirm this fact, though my family is from NYC

Nights on Broadway you hear it in upstate New York a bit, and much milder versions in various parts of New England

You can hear it words such as leg pronounced “layg”

Yes! I can confirm this. Sounded natural to me, from Detroit

Actually - Edison was born in 1847 and was 14 when the Civil War began. The youngest Civil War recruits/volunteers were the drummer boys who enlisted in early 1865 - born ca. 1850. The last Union soldier died in 1956 - he lived into the television age. Color film exists for this 109 year-old former soldier - viewable on KZfaq.

1847 mate

@@unclejosh4935 Youngest civil war vets were born in 1856, as there were 9-year-old boy-soldiers in 1865.

you mean 1847?

He'd more than be aware of a war he could legally be conscripted into.

[fɫɛɡ] It's a Northern/Midwest American pronunciation and some Canadians have it too. They pronounce words like flag, bag, rag, and lag with a kind of "eh" vowel

This was after the civil war, the original line was, "and we'll hurl the rebel crew from this land we love the best, shouting the battle cry of freedom!"

@@kingofbears6999 no this was recorded during the civil war dumbass

@@kingofbears6999as it should be

what?

They've been doing that millenia before the war...

@@solinus7131 Ah yes, it's a civil war song, but recorded in the late 1890's or early 10's for something like civil war veteran reunions and reenactment events. I don't guess there was recording technology yet in the 1860s?

Actually you can hear where the lyrics were changed to appease the south in 1911 they replaced the lyric freedmen with brave man and they added a lyric about the Southland Brave. No one in 1862 would say the Southland was Brave.

@@TUBESPECIFIC1 Recording technology was just being created in 1860's, nothing they would've recorded a song on

@@alyssachantaychampagne2773 The oldest audio recording was actually in 1860. Not sure there are any recordings of audio from the american civil war though.

@@TUBESPECIFIC1 Look up phonautograph. Recording of audio began in the 1850s.

amiedetherese US Everlasting and Lakeside cylinder records often do not indicate the actual artist(s) performing the selection on the rim of the cylinder. This one is no exception as it indicates only "DUET" for the artists. This can be seen early on in the video when I hold the cylinder title end in focus. In any case, I believe the lead singer is Frank Stanley and in spite of the designation "DUET" I'm reasonably confident that there are more than two people singing. US Everlasting cylinders were introduced in about May 1910 and Frank Stanley passed away in December 1910 so it is possible that this was one his last recordings if this was indeed him singing on this cylinder record.

@@MusicBoxBoy As other commenters have mentioned, the lead singer pronounces a long "A" in the word flag, as is typical in the Upper Midwest even today. However, Frank Stanley, according to Wikipedia was from New Jersey. The Library of Congress has a recording of Stanley singing the Star-Spangled Banner in which he pronounces flag with a short "A". adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200003270/B-1907-The_star_spangled_banner This seems to suggest that this recording was not likely to have been made by Stanley, does it not?

@@SeanGeo3 According to one of the many early recordings reference books here in my library this recording was sung by Byron G. Harlan and Joe Parsons. I'm 100% confident that the lead singer in this recording is not Harlan as I have hundreds of his recordings and know his voice well. However, Joe Parsons is a question mark. Very little is know about this artist and I'm wondering whether this was a stage name for Frank C. Stanley or some other early recording artist. The artist attributed as Joe Parsons apparently did not record for Edison or Columbia that I can find - only U-S Everlasting. Anyway, it's a bit of a mystery.

@@MusicBoxBoy Thanks for the information!

the song was written in 1862, the cylinder came out in the 1910s (for civil war veterans)

snaplet games Around the turn of the last century.

1911

@@DrywallMuncher_ Recordings didnt even exist in the 1860s.

@Scott History A loled at this comment

it's unknown- just says "duet"

But you can't see dislikes...

@@titanusghidorah7964 Unfortunately not anymore Screw KZfaq and it’s corporatist attitude

because we just happened to? the ancient Egyptians have nothing to do with this

THE UNION FOREVER, HURRAH! BOY HURRAH! DOWN WITH THE TRAITOR, UP WITH THE STARS!!!! WHILE WE RALLY ROUND THE PLACE, BOYS, WE RALLY ONCE AGAIN SHOUTING CRY THE BATTLE OF FREEDOM!!!!!

go home you Neo Confed

"she's never at a loss": you can't fault the Rebels for failure to try, despite their lack of war materiel. Lee's men didn't even have shoes at the end.

@@eoipso4282 I say let's try it again. Bet the South wins. Liberalism has driven manufacturing out of the north. I'm ready!

Never had a loss. Hmm yes the south never lost anything