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From 1903, An interesting adaptation of Longfellow's poem of heartache, hope and healing put to music, I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight, sung by J. W. Myers.

I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight

Company	Columbia Phonograph Company
Cylinder #	5606
Category	Baritone solo
Title	I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight
Performed by	J. W. Myers
Circa	1903
Announcement	"I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight, sung by J. W. Myers. Columbia record."

Enjoy this recording of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Bridge" - written some time in the 1840s - condensed and put to music by Miss M. Lindsay.

Typical of many two-minute wax cylinders, there was only enough recording time for just the first verse of Lindsay's two-verse condensation (see below) – leaving the work in a decidedly melancholy tone.

To hear I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight —

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To learn more:

See the sheet music to "I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight", courtesy of the Lester S. Levy collection of sheet music.
Read a biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and
See the complete text of his poem "The Bridge", courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.

— This cylinder of the month is from the collection of Leo Kimmett —

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