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.

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The Original Bolling Blues


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Jazz
Catalogue Number422-812-569-1
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Mercury
Record Format33 1/3 RPM - 12"
Shelf Number001346
Number of Tracks15
Date Recorded1969
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 - Baby Seals
Composer(s) : Baby S. Seals; arr. Claude Bolling
2 - Frankie And Johnny
Composer(s) : arr. Claude Bolling
3 - Beale Street Blues
Composer(s) : W.C. Handy
4 - The Jelly Roll Blues (The Original Jelly Roll)
Composer(s) : Ferd Morton
5 - You've Been A Good Old Wagon
Composer(s) : Perry Bradford
6 - Blue Serge
Composer(s) : Mercer Ellington
7 - Dallas Blues
Composer(s) : Hart A. Wand
8 - Basin Street Blues
Composer(s) : Spencer Williams
9 - Royal Garden Blues
Composer(s) : Clarence; Spencer Williams
10 - The Memphis Blues
Composer(s) : W.C. Handy
11 - Jazz Me Blues
Composer(s) : Tom Delaney
12 - The Jogo Blues
Composer(s) : W.C. Handy
13 - Aunt Hagar's Blues
Composer(s) : W.C. Handy