September 21, 2004
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The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey. Tune in for Edison cylinder and disc record rarities, many not heard since "the old man" himself stashed them away, featuring: Tin Pan Alley pop songs, ragtime, vaudeville comedy sketches, flapper dance bands, old-time country tunes, historic classical music, laboratory experiments and other artifacts - all dating from 1888 through 1929.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Patterson Trio | Old MacDonald had a farm | Diamond Disc 10584-A | 1926 |
| Albert Campbell & Bob Roberts | An interrupted courtship on the elevated railway | Gold Moulded cylinder 8731 | 1904 |
| Jazz-o-harmonists, Louis Katzman - bandleader | The cat's whiskers - drag fox trot blues | Diamond Disc 8955-A | 1923 |
| Elizabeth Spencer | Mighty lak' a rose | Amberol cylinder 4M-645 | 1911 |
| Vaughn De Leath, Stuart Ross - piano, R. J. Moss - violin | So blue | Diamond Disc 11637-A | 1927 |
| Edison Symphony Orchestra, Parke Hunter - banjo | Down Tennessee barn dance | Gold Moulded cylinder 8844 | 1904 |
| Ernest V. Stoneman & his Dixie Mountaineers | We parted by the riverside | Needle Type disc N-221 | 1928 |
| Mario Perry - accordian | Medley of popular Italian folk songs | Diamond Disc 8632-A | 1922 |
| Anna Chandler | My sweetie went away (he didn't say where, when or why) | Diamond Disc 9047-B | 1923 |
| Alfred A. Farland - banjo | Serenade | Diamond Disc 5837-B | 1917 |
| Irving Gillette | John Anderson, my Jo | Amberol cylinder 4M-632 | 1911 |
| Electric City Four | Beela boola | Diamond Disc 7596-B | 1920 |
| Louisiana Five | Clarinet squawk - one step | Diamond Disc 6928-B | 1920 |
| Sodero's Band | Operatic rag | Diamond Disc 3458-B | 1915 |
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