Condition: Used
Messrs Lyster and Cooke - Nearer, My God, to Thee and Sun Of My Soul / Miss Maude Silvester - Laughing Water
English Silver Chimes Orchestra + English Silver Bells Orchestra
( + possibly BRASS QUARTETTE)
Zonophone Record
Serial 455
1926
UK Issue
Record is VG+ ( listen)
Extra Postage Charge For Proper Packaging, extra care is taken..
Side A
Messrs Lyster and Cooke - Nearer, My God, to Thee and Sun Of My Soul
Side B
Miss Maude Silvester - Laughing Water
"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, based loosely on Genesis 28:11–19,
the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows:
"So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it..."
It is most famous as the alleged last song the band on RMS Titanic played before the ship sank.
"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is associated with the RMS Titanic, as one passenger reported that the ship's band played the hymn as the Titanic sank.
The "Bethany" version was used in the 1943 film Titanic and in the Jean Negulesco's 1953 film Titanic, whereas the "Horbury" version was played in Roy Ward Baker's 1958 movie about the sinking, A Night to Remember.
1920s-1960s
In the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, the Gramophone Company continued to use the "Zonophone" label until 1931. When the company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electrical and Musical Industries, Ltd. (EMI), the lower-priced labels of the two firms were merged also as Regal Zonophone. Post WWII, Regal Zonophone was largely dormant in Britain until 1964, when the label was revived with a few beat group offerings but became primarily known for hosting the Salvation Army-affiliated band The Joystrings , who had a brace of chart placings and released several 45s, EPs and LPs through the end of the 1960s. The Joystrings appearance on the label hearkened back to the 1930s and 1940s when Regal Zonophone regularly released Salvation Army brass band recordings. Regal Zonophone was also widely used as a catchall EMI label in foreign territories, and often in regions or nations where the main EMI Columbia and HMV logos and trademarks were disputed/held by competitors.
In Anglophone West Africa (primarily today's Ghana and Nigeria) Zonophone was used as a label to record and produce Sakara, Juju and Apala music on 78rpm discs from 1928 to the early 1950s
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