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A 7-inch single sided Emile Berliner Gramophone disc record. Made of hard rubber, stamped with the date September 16, 1897. The artist is George W. Johnson, the first prominent African-American recording artist, singing and whistling one of his specialties, "The Whistling Coon", with piano accompanyment. The disc has no label per se; the information print is impressed into the center of the disc. Berliner Catalogue # 196 Z. From a disc in Infrogmation's collection; plays at about 55rpm, poor balance in the original recording studio, with piano louder than voice.

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Note: I downloaded Infrogmation's image, edited it slightly, and uploaded it again. Thus, this is derived from a GFDL-ed image which I believe automatically makes it GFDL. Since the edit history shows that the GFDL tag was added by Infrogmation, I hereby state for the record that I, too, release it under GFDL. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 21:50, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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