FREE, COMPLETE EDISON 2- AND 4-MINUTE AMERICAN CYLINDER LISTINGS NOW AVAILABLE

[Analogous]

Thanks to the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) at the UC Santa Barbara Library, two key discographies for cylinder collectors are now available online as free, searchable PDFs.

 

The Early Recordings Initiative at the Library has funded the publication of Edison Two-Minute and Concert Cylinders: American Issues, 1897-1912 by Allen Sutton.  The listing is much more detailed than Allen Koenigsberg's ECR, itself a landmark publication back in the '60s.  There are details when titles transitioned from brown wax to black, initial sales figures, and - best of all - it's searchable.

 

The other publication, Edison Four-Minute Cylinders: Amberols, Blue Amberols, and Royal Purple Amberols: Domestic Issues, 1912-1930 by Allen Sutton is equally impressive and equally searchable.  It has detailed information on session dates, lists the wax Amberols that correlate with celluloid re-issues, and it includes obscurities like the Pan-Pacific Exposition 2-minute cylinders and the oversized Kinetophone records.

 

Information and links to both publications are available here:

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/497

[phonogfp]

What great resources!  Thanks, John, for the notification, and for your support of these worthy projects.

 

George P.

[Tinfoilphono]

Wow -- that is truly phenomenal! Thanks for the link, and your support of the project. I've bookmarked this for ongoing reference. I love the fact that it's searchable.

 

Thanks again.

[CurtA]

Dittoes... THANKS!!!