September 5, 2006
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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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September 5, 2006
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| Artist | Track | Album | Year |
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| Harry Reser - banjo, Paul Rickenbach - piano | The clock and the banjo | Diamond Disc 18000-A | 1927 |
| Ada Jones | I'm a woman of importance - from "Fritz In Tammany Hall" | Gold Moulded cylinder 9182 | 1906 |
| Metropolitan Band | Gems of Southern songs | Brown wax cylinder - unknown company | c. 1898 ? |
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| Billy Murray | Forty-five minutes from Broadway | Gold Moulded cylinder 9231 | 1906 |
| John J. Kimmble - melodeon | The elite march | Amberol cylinder 4M-927 | 1912 |
| Ernest V. Stoneman and his Dixie Mountaineers | All I've got's gone | Diamond Disc 18883-B | 1929 |
| Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra | Whom do you love | Diamond Disc 9901-A | 1924 |
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| Dr. Franklin Lawson | Believe me, if all those endearing young charms | Amberol cylinder 4M-928 | 1912 |
| Albert Benzler - xylophone | Killarney - from Rogers Bros. "In Ireland" | Gold Moulded cylinder 9165 | 1905 |
| George Ballard | Goodbye Virginia | Diamond Disc 4167-C | 1915 |
| New York Trio, Cornelius Van Vliet - cello | Trio no. 1 in B flat - part 1 | Diamond Disc 18527-A | 1928 |
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| Clarence Williams and his Blue Moaners, Eva Taylor - vocal | Come on home - fox trot | Diamond Disc 19339-A | 1929 |
| Edison Military Band | The fashion plate march | Gold Moulded cylinder 8674 | 1904 |
| Willard Hodgin | The judge done me wrong | Diamond Disc 18357-B | 1928 |
| Vincent Lopez Orchestra | California - fox trot | Diamond Disc 8412-A | 1922 |
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