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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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 - Scissor Grinder Joe
Composer(s) : Gillespie; Stocco
2 - So This Is Venice
Composer(s) : Arban; Warren; Clarke; Leslie
3 - Moanful Man
Composer(s) : N/A
4 - The Menphis Maybe Man
Composer(s) : Gillespie; Cooke; Moll
5 - The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
Composer(s) : Kahn; Jones; Alford
6 - Messin' Around
Composer(s) : St. Cyr-Cooke
7 - High Fever
Composer(s) : Sanders; Cooke
8 - Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man
Composer(s) : Rose; Harrison; Barry
9 - Stock Yards Strut
Composer(s) : Taylor
10 - Salty Dog (Take #1)
Composer(s) : Jackson
11 - Salty Dog (Take #2)
Composer(s) : Jackson
12 - Stomp Time Blues
Composer(s) : Parham
13 - It Must Be The Blues
Composer(s) : Parham
14 - Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man
Composer(s) : Rose; Harrison; Barry
15 - High Fever
Composer(s) : Sanders; Cooke