The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Why Try to Change Me Now / The Birth of the Blues


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue Number39882
Matrix Number CO 48181
Record Label Columbia
Record Format78 RPM - 10"
Shelf Number5234
Number of Tracks2
Date Recorded1952-06-03
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Why Try to Change Me Now
Composer(s) : C. Coleman; J. McCarthy
2 - The Birth of the Blues
Composer(s) : De Sylva; Brown; Henderson