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.

Basin Street Blues / African Ripples


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue NumberB-10115-A / B-10115-B
Matrix Number 10654 / 86208
Record Label Bluebird
Record Format78 RPM - 10"
Shelf Number6057
Number of Tracks2
Date Recorded1937-06-11; 1934-11-16
Album Artists
Notes Fox Trot

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 - Basin Street Blues
Composer(s) : Spencer Williams
2 - African Ripples
Composer(s) : Thomas