Listen to this collection of 78rpm records released in the early 20th century. These recordings were contributed to the Archive by users through the Open Source Audio collection.
BusSongs.com was created to help kids, parents, and teachers recall the words and lyrics to loved children's songs that bring back warm memories of family trips and summer camp. There is also a huge collection of lullabies and nursery rhymes to help keep alive the traditions of moms and dads singing their children to sleep.
The University of California at Santa Barbara Libraries have created a digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. The files can be freely downloaded or streamed online. On this site you can find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.
