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A fine recording of Yankee Patrol presented on an early long-play wax cylinder format.

Yankee Patrol

Company	Columbia Phonograph Company
Cylinder #	85034 (6" length)
Category	Band
Title	Yankee Patrol
Performed by	Columbia Band
Circa	December 1905
Announcement	None

Enjoy this well-recorded rendition of Yankee Patrol on a hard-to-find Columbia Phonograph Company "Twentieth Century" 3-minute wax cylinder. See the May 2005 Cylinder of the Month to see & hear another example of this odd format and to learn more about its short-lived history.

Here's a bit of Tin Pan Alley confusion: Yankee Patrol was composed in 1904 by Frank W. Meacham, whose best-known work American Patrol was written much earlier in 1885 — but even earlier, another "patrol", The Yankee Patrol, was written in 1882 by Edward J. Abraham.

To hear Yankee Patrol —

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To learn more see -

The Yankee Patrol sheet music, courtesy of the University of Alabama.
A mini-biography on composer F. W. Meacham, courtesy of Wikipedia.

To hear other examples of wax cylinders, see the

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