Enjoy the comic vaudeville skit,
Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink,
performed in 1907 by Ada Jones & Len Spencer.
Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink
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| Company |
Edison's National Phonograph Company
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| Cylinder # |
9503
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| Category |
Skating scene
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| Title |
Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink
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| Performed by |
Ada Jones & Len Spencer
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| Circa |
March 1907
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| Announcement |
"Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink, by Ada Jones & Len Spencer. Edison record."
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Ada Jones and Len Spencer recorded several dozen highly abbreviated vaudeville skits for
Edison – and dozens more for other major record companies.
Usually heavy with ethnic overtones,
the format was easy to spot: a brief introduction to the two characters, a few
(generally corny) jokes, a chorus of a song followed by a joke, marriage proposal, or both.
Good fun squeezed into a 2-minute wax cylinder recording.
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To hear
Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink —
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For help playing these sounds, click here.
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Sheet music to the chorus of Take Me On the Rollers:
Sung on this month's cylinder by Ada Jones (although sung to Rudolph instead of 'Charlie').
Presented courtesy of the
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music.
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No. 9503, "Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink," by Ada Jones and Len Spencer,
is a Dutch character sketch, declared to be the best Dutch sketch since "Heinie."
The title and the names of the artists making the Record are a
sufficient guarantee as to its fun-making qualities.
An opportunity is given Miss Jones to sing the new skating song,
"Take Me on the Rollers," written by W. H. Long, Jr., and Barney Gilmore.
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— January 1907 Edison Phonograph Monthly [announcing the March records]
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