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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's a time in each year that we always hold dear. |
0:10.0 | Good old summer time, with the birds and the freezes and sweet scented breezes. |
0:18.0 | Good old summer time. When your day's work is over |
0:23.5 | Then you are in clover |
0:25.3 | And life is one beautiful rhyme |
0:28.0 | No trouble annoying |
0:30.8 | Each one is enjoying |
0:32.7 | The good old summer time |
0:36.1 | In the good old summer time In the good old summer time. In the good old summer time, in the good old summer time, in the good old summer time, |
0:43.7 | rolling through the shady lanes with your ready mind, |
0:50.2 | you hold her hand and she holds yours hands and that's a very good sign. |
0:56.8 | That she's not good, say, would say in the good old summer time. |
1:08.3 | This wonderful recording of one of the Gilded Age's most familiar, popular songs was made in 1906 by a group known as the Haydn Quartet, which formed in the mid-1890s, and they were made famous by that new invention, the phonograph. |
1:25.0 | And that song brings all the feeling of a summer day in the Gilded Age and a sense |
1:30.6 | of idyllic escape from life's realities back to us today. It's common to think of parts of the |
1:38.5 | city of New York during the Gilded Age's long avenues lined with European-styled mansions, |
1:46.9 | overblown palaces, all accented with the grand new temples to art and culture, such as the Metropolitan Opera, the Metropolitan |
1:53.0 | Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library. Our minds take us to Fifth in Madison |
1:57.9 | avenues filled with elegantly dressed people showing off their |
2:01.2 | best and latest Paris fashions. Well, the truth is, of course, it really wasn't quite like that at all. |
2:08.2 | There was a tremendous dichotomy between the haves who had too much and the have-nots who faced |
2:14.7 | great inequality. Instead of a sparkling city of gleaming marble, Manhattan overall, from mid-century |
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