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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 say; 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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