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.
| Artist |
Track |
Album |
Year |
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National Promenade Band, conducted by Cesare Sodero
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Walkin' the dog - fox trot
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Diamond Disc 4763-C
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1916
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Ada Jones & Len Spencer
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Muggsy's dream
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Gold Moulded cylinder 9787
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1908
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[unnamed band]
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Washington Post march
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Brown wax cylinder - United States Phono. Co.
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c. late 1890s
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Janet Hall - vocal, Ken Christie - piano
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The man I love
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Diamond Disc 18553-F
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1928
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Jasper "Jep" Bisbee - fiddle, Beulah Bisbee-Schuler - piano
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The girl I left behind me - medley
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Diamond Disc 9260-C
|
1923
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Steve Porter
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Flanagan and his motor car
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Diamond Disc 2066-C
|
1914
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D. Wormser - zither solo
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Govoni gavotte
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Brown wax cylinder
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c. 1897 (?)
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Robert Denning (M.J. O'Connell)
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So I took the fifty thousand dollars
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Diamond Disc 9282-B
|
1924
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Edison Concert Band
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Second Hungarian rhapsody
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Gold Moulded cylinder 9026
|
1905
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Frisco "Jass" Band, Rudy Wiedoeft - saxophone
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Canary cottage - one-step
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Diamond Disc 5552-C
|
1917
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Irving Gillette (Henry Burr)
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She waits by the deep blue sea
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Gold Moulded cylinder 9023
|
1905
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Anthony Franchini - guitar, Leonard - violin
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Dolores - tango
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Diamond Disc 9584-A
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1924
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Billy Murray
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Has anybody here seen Kelly? - from "The jolly bachelors"
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Amberol cylinder 4M-416
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1910
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Edith Helena - vocal, John Burckhardt - piano
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Novelty imitation medley - intro: "Kiss me again" & "Last rose of summer"
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Diamond Disc 8918-A
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1923
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