Here is just a partial listing of the artists who recorded for Edison Records:
Harrry Anthony
Gene Austin
Elsie Baker
George Wilton Ballard
Joe Belmont
JohnBieling
Big Four Quartet
Henry Burr
Albert Campbell
Helen Clark
George M. Cohan
Arthur Collins
Frank Croxton
Vernon Dalhart
Vaughn Deleath
S.H. Dudley
Cliff Edwards
Marquerite Farrell
Edward M. Favor
Arthur Fields
Florodora Girls
George J. Gaskin
Roger Harding
Byron G. Harlan
James F. Harrison
Charles Hart
Haydn Quartet
Murry K. Hill
Harvey Hindermyer
William F. Hooley
May Irwin
Lewis James
Jaudas' Society Orchestra
Ada Jones
Billy Jones
Irving Kaufman
J. Aldrich Libbey
Lyric Quartet
Harry Macdonough
Jere Mahoney
EdwardMeeker
Metropolitan Orchestra
John Meyer
Will Oakland
Dixieland Jazz Band
Orpheus Quartet
Vess Ossman
Peerless Quartet
Dan Quinn
Ma Rainey
Gladys Rice
Will Robbins
Homer Rodeheaver
Elliot Shaw
Sousa's Band
Elizabeth Spencer
Len Spencer
Frank C. Stanley
Sterling Trio
Cal Stewart
Sophie Tucker
U.S. Marine Band
Walter Van Brunt
Fred Van Eps
Reinald Werrenrath
Elizabeth Wheeler
Billy Williams
Influences
When a schoolmaster called Edison "addled," his furious mother took him out of the school and proceeded to teach him at home. Edison said many years later, "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had some one to live for, some one I must not disappoint."
Sounds Like
The Edison National Historic Site archives includes approximately 48,000 disc and cylinder records produced by Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, between 1888 and 1929. Many of these, including unreleased and experimental recordings, have been at the Laboratory since Edison's lifetime. Some of the earliest examples of recorded sound in existence are preserved within this unique collection. The subject matter of the recordings is mostly music, covering genres popular in the United States during Edison's era.
Anglo-American Folk Songs
Brass Band Marches
Classical Instrumental
Comedy Sketches
Country songs
Documentaries & Political Speeches
Educational Lessons
Experimental Recordings
Jazz, Blues & Dance Bands
Motion Picture Soundtracks
Music of Foreign Countries
Negro Spirituals
Opera, Vocal & Choral
Poetry, Short Stories,
Popular Instrumental, Ragtime
Popular Songs
Very Early Recorded Sound
"I was never so taken aback in my life. I was always afraid of things that worked the first time." --Thomas A. Edison on hearing his voice play back to him from his first tin foil phonograph.
Of all his inventions, Thomas A. Edison was most fond of the phonograph. The phonograph was developed as a result of Thomas Edison's work on two other inventions, the telegraph and the telephone. In 1877, Edison was working on a machine that would transcribe telegraphic messages through indentations on paper tape, which could later be sent over the telegraph repeatedly. This development led Edison to speculate that a telephone message could also be recorded in a similar fashion. He experimented with a diaphragm which had an embossing point and was held against rapidly-moving paraffin paper and later changed the paper to a metal cylinder with tin foil wrapped around it.
Edison's phonograph was the only one of his inventions that worked the first time he tried it. Edison filed for a patent on December 24, 1877. Two days earlier, he walked into the offices of Scientific American in New York City and showed it to staff there. SA's next issue stated, "Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office, placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine inquired as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was very well, and bid us a cordial good night."
The Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was established on January 24, 1878.
Edison Records music is alive and well today thanks to a great service offered by the University of California at Santa Barbara. In the fall of 2005, David Seubert began the process of digitizing cylinder recordings made at Edison Records, as well as other labels. Today, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. The collection includes 6,345 recordings made by Edison Records!
On their website, Cylinder Preservaton and Digitization Project, you can listen to the recordings one at a time, by label, by genre, by artist or streamed online. They can also be freely downloaded. The Edison Speaking Phonograph Company encourages you to take a trip back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries by visiting this great website to discover, or re-discover, that little-known era of recorded sound.
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