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 |
Cass Hagan and his orchestra
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The kinkajou - fox trot from "Rio Rita"
|
Diamond Disc 11529-C
|
1927
|
Joe Natus
|
The village belle
|
Brown wax cylinder 7804 - National Phonograph Co.
|
1901
|
Alexander Prince - concertina
|
Scotch reels
|
Gold Moulded cylinder 10200
|
1909
|
Bob Roberts
|
Woodman, woodman, spare that tree - from "Ziegfeld follies of 1911"
|
Amberol cylinder 4M-837
|
1911
|
Vasa Prihoda - violin, Asta Doubravska - piano
|
Jota de Pablo (Op. 52)
|
Diamond Disc 7787-C
|
1921
|
Irving Gillette (Henry Burr)
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The harp that once thro' Tara's halls
|
Amberol cylinder 4M-730
|
1911
|
The Alpine Mountaineers (R. Pols - zither, Anthony Franchini - guitar)
|
Marine flashes march
|
Diamond Disc 11239-A
|
1926
|
Criterion Quartet
|
Iowa corn song
|
Diamond Disc 8809-C
|
1923
|
Garde Republicaine Band
|
Ouverture des dragons de Villars
|
Amberol cylinder 4M-714
|
1911
|
Irene Franklin
|
I want to be a janitor's child
|
Blue Amberol cylinder 1815
|
1913
|
William Craig - fiddle
|
Sterling castle & Harvest home
|
Gold Moulded cylinder 10120
|
1909
|
The Ponce Sisters (Ethel and Dorothea), Dave Kaplan - piano
|
My sweetie turned me down
|
Diamond Disc 10633-B
|
1926
|
Muriel Pollock - piano
|
Lip-stick
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Diamond Disc 18258-K
|
1928
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Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra
|
Deep elm (you tell 'em I'm blue) - fox trot
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Diamond Disc 10514-C
|
1925
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