The University of California at Santa Barbara hosts the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Before MP3s, CDs, cassettes, and vinyl records, people listened to … cylinders. First made of tinfoil, then wax and plastic, cylinder recordings, commonly the size and shape of a soda can, were the first commercially produced sound recordings in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.
The UCSB Library, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Grammy Foundation, and donors, has created a digital collection of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. To bring these recordings to a wider audience, the Library makes them available to download or stream online for free.
This searchable database features all types of recordings made from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, including popular songs, vaudeville acts, classical and operatic music, comedic monologues, ethnic and foreign recordings, speeches, and readings.
See: Transportation.
The collection includes many motion picture theme songs, as well as songs made popular by being heard in a motion picture.
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Library Special Collections Sheet Music Collection, box 65
To locate these songs, simply use the search keyword, "motion picture" in the OAC Sheet Music Collection finding aid search box and you will find over 900 related titles.
Ghost That Never Walked, 1904 Haunting Rag, 1911 Celebrated Witches Dance, 1852
box 1198 box 1567 box 658
Witches Flight, 1903 Ragtime Goblin Man, 1911 Hallowe'en Jack O'Lantern Rag, 1911
box 605 box 649,1448,1777 box 588
Where the Jack O'Lanterns Glow, 1920 Black Cat Dance, 1916 Scarecrow, 1902
Box 2019 Box 1467 Box 1910
Chanukah Licht = Di Hanukah Likht = Chanuka Lights, 1937, box 525
Hanukha Folks-Lied = Chanukah Folk Song, 1947, box 407
Happy Hanukkah, My Friend, 1992, box 479
Mi Y'malel = Who Can Retell, 1949, box 525
Black Sabbath
Blue Öyster Cult
Alice Cooper
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Thin Lizzy
Uriah Heep
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Film actress Merna Kennedy & mother, Maude Gernert, 1936 | Ally Sheedy and mother, Charlotte, 1975 | Boxer Wally Hall and mother, Florence, 1936 |
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to listen to sound recordings from the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to listen to sound recordings from the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive
For songs about doctors and nurses, see Sheet Music by Subject, Medicine/Medical Conditions
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to listen to sound recordings from the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to listen to sound recordings from the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive and other available data bases and archival collections.
Civil Rights/Racial Injustice
Environment
Nuclear Warfare (see also: War)
Peace
Pleas for the Innocent
Police Brutality
Politics
Unions/Workers' Rights
War (see also: Music of the Wars)
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to listen to sound recordings from the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection
Cafe of the Red Dagger
Canada Dry Hour
Carry On
Charis
Chase & Sandborn Hour
Chesterfield Supper Club
Chigaco Theatre of the Air
Club 15
Death Valley Days
Dorothy Lamour Show
Dream Harbor Girl
Eversharp Radio Program
Fibber McGee and Molly
First Nighter
Girl Back Home
Great Gildersleeve
Halls of Ivy
Happy Wonder Bakers
Hayfield's Pleasures of 1932
Helen Hayes Theatre of the Air
Henry George Show
Horlick's Malted Milk
Horn & Hardart Children's Hour
House of Melody
Household Finance Program
Household Hour
Housewives' Protective League
Indian Indigo
Isle of Golden Dreams
It Pays to be Ignorant
Ivoryne Program
Jolly Time Pop Corn Revue
Laff N'Swing Club
Leonard Friendly Show
Let's Dance
Lone Ranger
Lonesome Gal
Lum & Abner
Maxwell House Coffee Time
Pepsi Cola Program
Pepsodent Hour (Featuring Amos 'n' Andy)
Philco Radio Hour
Rubinoff Hour
Rubinoff Orchestra
Slumber Music Hour
Today's Children
Russia
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
School
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Smoking Sheet Music
Library Special Collections holds a large number of sheet music titles that pertain to smoking. Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive
The collection includes many songs from stage productions, as well as songs made popular by being heard in a stage production.
Painting the Clouds With Sunshine from The Gold Diggers of Broadway, 1939
In: Library Special Collections Sheet Music Collection, box 557
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Grammophone
Motion Pictures
Radio
Telephone
Telegram
Telegraph
Television
Walkie Talkie
The collection includes many television program theme songs, as well as songs made popular by being heard in a television show.
Yaller, Yaller Gold from Walt Disney's television program, Davy Crockett
Library Special Collections, Sheet Music Collection, box 58
To locate these songs, simply use the search keyword, "television" in the OAC Sheet Music Collection finding aid search box and you will find almost 400 related titles.
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Airplanes
Automobiles
Bicycles
Boats/Ships
Buses
Scooters/Motorcycles
Trains/Trollies
Wagons/Buggies
Unions (See: Songs of Protest)
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to listen to sound recordings from the UC Santa Barbara Cylinder Archive
Spanish American War
Spanish Civil War
Civil War
Border War
WW I
WW II
Korean War
Vietnam War (see: Songs of Protest)
Gulf War
Library Special Collections holds many pieces of sheet music that were written about war and the impact of that war upon American society. Recurring themes in this collection include emancipation, love and loss, reconciling of nations and songs that look to the war's end. In addition to the music, many of the covers are worth noting. They treat a variety of subjects, and include art by notable artists as well as images of famous performers.
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection.
Click on highlighted titles to hear sound recordings.
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are found in the Sheet Music Collection