Kingdom Coming - Sung by Frank Crumit - 1927 Victor Record
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- Here is Henry C. Work's 1862 Civil War era composition "Kingdom Coming" (In the year of Jubilo), sung by Frank Crumit accompanied by Violin, banjo, guitar and piano, and featured on an original 1927 Victor Orthophonic Record. The Victrola is a late 1925 Victor Orthophonic Credenza, the top of the line "Flagship Model" of Victor's new line of Orthophonic Victrolas that first made their appearance at Victor Dealer's throughout the USA in November of 1925.
- Hudba
Nearly forty years ago I heard this in a Tex Avery Billy Boy cartoon. Next day in school all my classmates were humming this tune 👍
Same guy wrote "Marching through Georgia", "My Grandfather's Clock" and the tune to "Wreck if the Old 97" (originally "The Ship that Never Returned" - talk about talent!
Thank you for the post. As much and as long as I have whistled this due to the wolf from Droopy, I never knew the song's title or it's powerful meaning. A co-worker just heard me whistling it today and stated that it was a Civil War tune, so I had to look it up. I have to be honest; I thought it was going to be just another pro slavery tune. I am glad to now have accurate knowledge beyond a cartoon character. Thank you for the lesson! *Love the Victrola!! Reminds me of my grandmother's*
Not only does Daws Butler imitate the voice from this song, but he also whistled like that guy too: 2:51 czcams.com/video/OkVkcP4XzkE/video.html
@@robbiewalker2831 Yes he did!!!! Huckleberry Hound is my favorite! He is who inspired me to get into whistling.
One of my favorite Civil War Songs
This is a great machine, the orthophonic Victrolas don't get much attention nowadays, but they sound just as good as any electric machine from the 30s.
This song was taught to my Grandmother by her mother who lived near Manassas VA and told her how she and her sisters could hear the canon fire during the First Battle of "Bull Run" She said that the battlefield was so saturated with blood, that the family and live stock could drink the water from the Manassas river as I ran red after the battle.
Her lyrics were a little different from the 1927 recording but not by much.
Also Marching Through Georgia
Tasteful and revelatory presentation, Victrolaman, thank you. Ever since coming across this post a couple of years ago, I'd been searching for my own copy of the disc. Just won one on Nauck's!
1:26 if you want to get to the good part
Thanks for sharing, great rendition. I've sang this since I was a kid.
The first time I heard this was in the movie "Meet me in St. Louis" . Great post, as always!
Watching Ken Burns Civil War on PBS America and while looking into the soundtrack stumbled on your uploading of this highly historic recording which is present in amazing clarity on your old gramophone, history indeed and very rare, thank you for posting.
Great recording -- and what a beautiful Victrola!
@WinterHaven Thanks so much. I love these old Historical tunes as you can tell, and I put extra time and effort into making sure the historical background along with original lyrics are displayed for viewers to see, to give them insight into the times in which the song was written. Thanks again for watching.
That is really special. I've only known the tune from Droopy Cartoons until tonight. I wonder if Tex Avery or Fred Quimby knew what they were going to help preserve when they used that tune for a wolf character apply named "Southern Wolf"?
Thanks.
Or perhaps a wolf of color? Blackwolf... I like that a lot! Of course had this been a cartoon i made blackwolf would be a superwolf with powers of healing and goodness... Strong yet kind and gentle and.... Nevermind...
Billy Boy
More great memories from my younger days!!Great Music...
Love this tune. Thanks for sharing this recoding.
Excellent stuff, this. Well done and thanks for uploading.
What a treat! Thank you!
Very good i m thai i like this song
I LOVE this wonderful bouncy song, but, BUT BUT, you'd NEVER get away with these lyrics today, would you ? !
Sure you would, as long as you present it in its Historical Context, that goes without saying. This song was written by an abolitionist before Slavery was abolished. You cannot change historical fact. Those who believe you are making a racist statement by presentng it, do no have a clue, as far as I am concerned. I have 131 thumbs up and 1 thumbs down on this post. That speaks volumes.
I completely agree, but there's some as would go mildly ballistic , without considering the historical context. that's all. To deny this song a right to be played would be similar to Holocaust denial . NB. I DID say, I loved the song , and this too, should speak volumes, turned right up loud !
@@victrolaman I'd love that, but this bloody 'woke' movement is sneaking into everything , ain't it !
Thank you for sharing this.
I posted the link to this on the Will Rogers Facebook wall run by the folks from his museum in Claremore. This song was so associated with Will that when he would walk into a movie theater unannounced, the piano player or orchestra would start playing Kingdom Come/Jubilo.
I love this song
Womderful record. This is the first time I ever heard the words, other than in "Skip to My Lou". Old time radio listeners may remember that this was once the grand prize song on a late 40s call in quiz show, starring Bert Parks, where someone won a bandbox full of prizes for identifying a song. Fred Allen thought it put him out of business.
Another one of yours for my favorites list and to forward on to a historian friend! Will Rogers sang a portion of this in his talkie "Too busy to work" which was a remake of his silent film "Jubilo".
THANK YOU
@victrolaman Here is a response just posted on the Will Rogers Facebook wall:
Bruce wrote: "Thanks for posting this wonderful 1927 rendition of a song that was associated with the legendary Will Rogers."
LOOOOVE it!!!
ENJOYED
Your speech reminds me of home. Are you a New Englander? I'm From Rhode Island but now live in Maryland. I play this tune on the fiddle and have known it for a while, but this is the first I have heard of this version. Very nice.
Yes indeed, I am located Southeastern Massachusetts about 30 miles South of Boston
@@victrolaman I just realized, Tex must've liked this particular version of the song, that he used it as the base for that Southern Wolf character in his later years, right down to the whistling: 2:51: czcams.com/video/OkVkcP4XzkE/video.html
Nice Bruce, I have quite a few by Frank Crumit, not sure I have this one though
Good one..
@amiedetherese Thank you, how wonderful. I had no idea that this song was closely associated with Will Rogers.
Victrolaman
"Meow, man!"
The radio show I mentioned was "Stop the Music", which was so popular it pretty much forced Bergen and McCarthy and Fred Allen off the air. "Kingdom Coming" was one of their high dollar songs, but it was guessed easily since "Kingdom Come" and "Skip to my Lou: were also acceptable. The easy song was probably becasue the prior one had been so hard it took months to guess, and the winner got some $20,000 of prizes.
I, too, remember the radio contest, but your post doesn't make sense. Kingdom Coming was the hard song and took months to guess, while Skip to my Lou was quite easy. This you didn't make quite clear. Incidentally, $20,000 was a small fortune in those days. It's no wonder the show beat it's competition.
There was a lot of white flight in the sixties.
@Turkeydoodlers I believe this is a fairly uncommon one, it is the only one I have ever seen or come across. Crumit of course recorded on both Columbia (his early ones), and later with Victor including the Orthophonic Era. Thanks for watching.
Victrolaman
My favorite line is when the Massa might try to fool the Yankies into thinking hes "contraband" that is a slave himself
my dad loved him (died 1947)
I would be interested as to why Edgar Bergen picked this for his radio show theme?
Can you please tell us your educational background, and your birth State and city?
I truly appreciate hearing accurate descriptions of these wonderfully historic tunes, narrated by an educated person. Please tell me you are a teacher!!!
I am not a Teacher, I am a Business College Graduate with a major in Accounting, I am a charter member and President emeritus of the Massachusetts Old Colony Antique Phonograph Society with equal interest in both the History and preservation of both early recordings and playback devices (phonographs , gramophones, and Talking Machines. I love these old Historical tunes as you can tell, and I put extra time and effort into making sure the historical background along with original lyrics are displayed for viewers to see, to give them insight into the times in which the song was written. Thanks again for watching.
Where are the lyrics you promised you would on the screen?
Hi this is the song whistled by a wolf in droopy cartoons. can I use this song on my videos? do you have an mp3 of this lovely song?
thanks.
Rodrigo from Bs As. Argentina.
What’s on the b side?
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Does that Credenza use an electric motor?
NO, this is an original door Credenza from late 1925 and has a Huge quadruple (4 spring motor), which when fully wound was advertised to get 20 minutes of Play out of one winding. Pretty Amazing technology for its time.
Work was a songwriter, not an active abolitionist.
Well before the days of Political correctness...............
Wouldn't get any air time now of corse!
It certainly is a familiar tune! Wonderful recording. Another tune from that era that I loved to sing in church is A Child of the King, but have never seen a recording of it.
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