The Preacher and the Bear by Arthur Collins

Interesting. The book Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895-1925 says that the Zonophone release was first in April of 1905 and that Edison 9000 came in May of 1905.

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Michael,

By mistake, I assumed, January 1905 for that Edison # 9000 release, was the release-date.

After a good look it's the recording date.

Sorry for the confusion.

PS still the comments need to be adjusted. Edison release was already in 1905, And also the Victor release (#4431) has to be changed (1905)

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/5972

And in 1905 there was also a Columbia-release (#3146)

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/refer/2000138703

You can listen to many more versions here:

http://www.phonozoic.net/p0003x.htm

And the core idea is almost certainly older; supposedly it happened to one Anson H. Allen, a census-taker in New York in 1840; the event was chronicled in "Allen's Bear Fight Up in Keene," which includes the key line asking God not to help the bear.

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2015/12/allens-bear-fight-keene.html

ALSO see my comments in this topic; https://secondhandsongs.com/topic/74240?offset=0#m186124

JoJo greets

Last updated by jojo on 2018-04-11 06:59:43 UTC - Show original message

Adjusted the comments for this release. Going to leave the credits alone for now since we don't have any further proof that Fairman didn't actually write it.

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