Uncle Josh in a Chinese Laundry
Transcript
Well, sir, I said to a fella the other day, now, what about the New Yorker, you folks get your washing done? Well, he showed me a place around the corner where he said, fella done all the washing, and I went around there, and there was a sign on the window that said hop soon or hop quick or jump up and hop or some other hop.
Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.
- Format
- 2-Min Wax Cylinder
- Release year
- 1910
- Duration
- 2:23
Audio public domain, courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Transcript CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse, including commercially, with credit.
About the artist
Public domain
Cal Stewart 1856–1919
An American comedian who built an entire career on a single character: Uncle Josh Weathersby, a garrulous old New Englander loose in a modernising world. Stewart recorded the Uncle Josh monologues for very nearly every label that existed, and kept doing so for two decades.
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