T'en Souviens-tu? (valse)
Transcript
Do you remember? Ballets performed by the soloists of the Republican Guard. Record Edison.
He was a young man who had a dream of becoming a soldier.
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
- 1905
- Duration
- 2:15
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
Garde Républicaine band founded 1848
The band of the Garde Républicaine, the French gendarmerie regiment that provides ceremonial guard in Paris. Its wind band was among the most admired in Europe and recorded extensively from the earliest days of the industry; it toured to the St Louis World's Fair in 1904.
Written from Wikipedia. Corrections welcome.