My 1900-1925 Record Collection

When my father died in 1958, I inherited 24 albums containing records dating between 1900 and 1920 which I have kept very carefully since. I don't really know when and how he got them but the records are still in good shape. Recently, though I am not a collectionner, I decided to document their period and try to find if they had any value on the market of collectibles.

Introduction

About a year ago, I moved from a house to a condominium and tried to move all the items contained in my basement into a 4' by 8' storage area. I threw away several items and succeeded keeping some of them in a "closest packing" arrangement. Some time ago, I decided to review the content of this storage in order to free space. I faced a Shakespearian dilemma such as "to keep or not to keep" and I decided to keep and log them as I do in the following sections.

Amongst these items, there were two boxes filled with several albums containing old disks dating from the early 1900s that I have inherited from my father in 1958. As with the Hammond typewriter, I have carried them from homes to homes since then and, now, I wander if they represent "antiques" or simply old scrap.

In the forthcoming section of this document, I have tried to illustrate the period as well as the market trends that evolved around the production of these disks. A particular emphasis is put on the Canadian historical aspects as almost all of the records of the collection were produced in Canada.

Historical

Sounds are really just rapidly vibrating waves in the air. Those waves make our eardrums vibrate, but instead of feeling the vibrations, our brains translate them into sounds. Translating waves from one form to another is also a key to understanding sound recording technologies. In the 1800s, many scientists studied sound waves and human hearing. Some of them, such as Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (it appears that he recorded the song "Au Clair de la Lune" in 1860, 17 years before Edison [Warp, Shania Forum]) and Alexander Graham Bell, constructed machines called Phonautographs to capture the waves and translate them into visible formdrawings on paper or on a sheet of smoked glass.

Phonotograph
Picture of a phonautograph [Warp]

Near the end of the century, Thomas A. Edison and Emile Berliner invented the first sound recording machines which were successively called phonograph, graphophone and gramophone:

The word "graphophone" was a new trade name obtained by inverting the syllables of the "phonograph". Similar trademark issues arose with the introduction by Emile Berliner of the "gramophone," the first commercially produced disc phonograph. It's almost the same word as "graphophone" but different enough that he could use it.

These inventions prompted a gigantic market for recorded sounds but the history of the sound recording industry is nebulous since several enterprises bearing nearly identical names filled this market . Here follows a short brief on these firms:

The battle for the cylinders

Edison invented the cylinder phonograph in 1877 when he was 30 years old, but that was not the end of the story.  During the following 52 years, Edison manufactured and sold some of the finest entertainment cylinder phonographs and records in the world. Let's now look at what happened over those years.

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company (1878)

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. The result was the invention of the first phonograph in December of 1877 at Menlo Park in New Jersey. To protect his design and start doing business, the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was formed almost immediately by businessmen from the telephone industry (including Edison) to sell the new "phonograph". Gardiner Green Hubbard was appointed president. Hubbard was Alexander Graham Bells father in law.

In 1878, Edison received a U.S. patent for his phonograph. The patent claims were poorly written and they provided poor legal protection against infringement by competitors

Volta Graphophone Company (1885)

Alexander Graham Bell and his cousin, Chichester Bell got together with an instrument maker named Charles Sumner Tainter and they set out to make a better version of Edison's phonograph design. The new design was called the Graphophone (a new trade name devised by simply reversing the order of the syllables) and the main improvement was that their version, using recorded cylinders, gave a longer life to the recordings. They could simply be played more times than Edison's tinfoil phonograph design. The intent was to market it as an office aid, much the same as we view tape recorders today, as a dictation machine.

In 1885, Graham Bell and his associates established the Volta Graphophone Company in Washington, DC, to demonstrate and promote the graphophone. Volta approached Edison with their work in the hopes of establishing a business relationship but Edison balked at the idea and turned Volta away. In 1886, Volta received a patent for their improved phonograph and wax cylinder recording process.  The company directed all of its efforts to research and development of sound recording instruments and records. Recording and reproducing methods were further improved, and a removable wax cylinder record was developed. The removable cylinder record consisted of a 6-inch cardboard tube, 1-5/16-inches in diameter, covered with wax.

American Graphophone Company (1886)

In 1886, Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter founded the American Graphophone Company to distribute and sell graphophones in the US and Canada under license from the Volta Graphophone Company. In 1890, the American Graphophone Company stopped production of new phonographs due to sagging orders. The company continued to sell parts and its existing inventory of phonographs that were modified to play solid wax cylinders. In 1891, the American Graphophone broke away from North American Phonograph Company. This left North American in a position to sell only Edison phonographs. American Graphophone began competing with Edison. In 1893, Columbia assumed management of American Graphophone and began patent litigation to challenge Edisons improved phonograph with regard to Voltas patent claims.

Edison Phonograph Company (1887)

In 1887, Thomas Edison bought the all the shares of the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company that was renamed the Edison Phonograph Company. This move was triggered when Edison realized the threat posed by the Graphophone companies. He formed the company to exclusively work on research and development of an improved phonograph. Edison worked feverishly and developed his own improved phonograph with a removable solid wax cylinder. Edison got into a position to do legal battle with the Graphophone companies over patent infringements

North American Phonograph Company (1888)

In 1888, the Edison Phonograph Company and the Graphophone companies both had a basis for suing each other over patent infringements. A shaky alliance was made between the adversaries by an intermediary named Jesse H. Lippincott. During that year, Lippincott cemented the alliance by forming the North American Phonograph Company to market and sell the machines from both sides. As per the terms of the alliance, Edison allowed his improved phonograph to be a licensed Graphophone!

At the time the North American Phonograph Company was formed, the phonograph was considered to be nothing more than an office machine. Marketing was targeted to customers who would use the instruments for recording dictation. Both the Edison and the Graphophone machines were usable, but very expensive and not very reliable. The Edison machines were the best of the two, and customers tended to favor them over the Graphophones.

North Americans best dealer was the Columbia Phonograph Company. Columbia saw the potential of selling entertainment records and began developing a music cylinder business using Edison solid wax records. The president of Columbia, Edward D. Easton became a director of American Graphophone Company.

Edison Phonograph Works (1888)

The Edison Phonograph Works was formed on October 8, 1887, to market Edison's machine. He introduced the Improved Phonograph by May of 1888, shortly followed by the Perfected Phonograph. The Edison Phonograph Works also produced musical cylinders for coin-slot phonographs which some of the subsidiary companies had started to use. These proto-"jukeboxes" were a development which pointed to the future of phonographs as entertainment machines.

Columbia Phonograph Company (1889)

In 1889, a group of business men authorized by the American Graphophone Company to sell graphophones in Washington, DC, established the Columbia Phonograph Company. In 1893, Columbia acquired the American Graphophone Company. The Columbia Phonograph Company started its operation in Canada in 1904 and established a main office in Toronto and offices Hamilton, Montreal and Brandtford. 

National Phonograph Company (1896)

In 1896, after having dissolved the North American Phonograph Company and saved the patents of the phonograph, Edison founded the National Phonograph Company  to manufacture and distribute phonographs.

Columbia Graphophone Company (1906)

The American Graphophone Company was restructured and renamed the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1906 to reflect its links with Columbia. In 1924, Louis Sterling from the Columbia Phonograph Company, London, acquired Columbia and restructured it.

Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911)

In 1911, Edison's companies were re-organized into Thomas A. Edison, Inc. As the organization became more diversified and structured, Edison became less involved in the day-to-day operations, although he still had some decision-making authority. The goals of the organization became more to maintain market viability than to produce new inventions.

The gramophone (flat discs)

A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. Gramophone records were the primary technology used for personal music reproduction for most of the 20th century. They replaced the phonograph cylinder in the 1900s, and although they were supplanted in popularity in the late 1980s by digital media, they continue to be manufactured and sold.

The initial process

The inventor of the process was Emile Berliner (1851-1929). As the Edison versus Bell/Tainter contest was going on, he began to take a great interest in the future of sound recording and reproduction. He began by examining in detail both the phonograph and the graphophone in order to learn the advantages and disadvantages of each. He soon formed the opinion that the wax cylinder, while a vast improvement over the tinfoil cylinder, was too soft and fragile for making a permanent recording. As a consequence of this, he decided upon the disc format coupled with the lateral vibration used by Leon Scott in his phonautograph. First he tried to replicate the delicate tracings that Scott had made on blackened glass on a sturdier substance through a photoengraving process. Berliner found that trying to photoengrave the surface of a glass disc was fraught with problems. He then turned to an etching process. After trying many different substances, Berliner finally turned to zinc [The Gramophone].

Following many failed trials, he arrived at a process whereby he would coat a zinc disc, made from regular stovemaker's zinc, with a beeswax and cold gasoline mixture. Then he cleared away the coating with fine lines made by a stylus attached to a mica diaphragm so that it would vibrate from side to side. Then, after coating the blank reverse side of the disc with varnish, he would immerse the disc in an acid bath. After a certain time, the acid etched the fine lines into grooves in the zinc, leaving the remaining parts of the disc untouched. With the vibrations fixed into the zinc, the disc could be placed on a turntable and the sound reproduced with a steel stylus.

This is how the earliest disc records were eventually made. Unlike the cylinder machines which could be used for both recording and playback, Berliner's method required two machines, one for each process. As a name for the whole operation the inventor coined the word "gramophone". His earliest patents were number 372,786, awarded November 8, 1887, and number 382,790, dated May 15, 1888. Berliner continued to patent improvements to his gramophone throughout the remainder of the century and even into the early years of the twentieth century, by which time he had lost control over his gramophone business.

Reproducing the master

The next problem facing the inventor was finding a method for reproducing the master zinc record. First it had to be electroplated. The result was a metal reverse, or negative, record whose grooves would project outward instead of inward. This negative could then be used to stamp positive copies in a substance that would hold the impression exactly. Berliner tried numerous substances, including plaster of Paris and sealing wax, with poor results. Finally it occurred to him that a new substance on the market called celluloid might answer but it soon became clear that the material could not withstand the pressure of repeated playings using big, hard steel needles under the full weight of the tone arm and horn. Berliner had to abandon celluloid. Next he began contacting manufacturers of hard rubber items. Warming the rubber made it possible to stamp copies of a zinc negative.

Playing the disc

The first records were made of glass, later zinc, and eventually plastic. An outside-start spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record.. The record was rotated on the gramophone. The "arm" of the gramophone held a needle that read the grooves in the record by vibration and transmitting the information to the gramophone speaker. Berliner's disks (records) were the first sound recordings that could be mass-produced by creating master recordings from which molds were made. From each mold, hundreds of disks were pressed. There is one exception to the outside-start groove: Pathé discs were center-start from the company's entry into disc-producing in 1905 up until 1915.

All disc records were one-sided for many years before a man named Ademor Petit saw the wisdom of placing selections on both sides. The idea itself was not patent worthy, so in his application he was careful to describe how molten shellac would spread more evenly when encountering a double series of grooves. He received his patent in 1904, and sold half his interest to F. M. Prescott who introduced them first in Europe and then in the U.S., with a picture of an Indian smoking a peace pipe. War paint would have been more appropriate as Columbia tried to follow suit, but was threatened with legal action. However, the patent began to run into legal difficulties in Europe, first in Austria, but Victor nonetheless bought the U.S. rights. When Columbia tried once again to market two-sided discs in 1908, Victor sued them. However, the Columbia lawyer was not to be trifled with - he stood up in the court room, raised the disc in question, and dramatically asked: If we are to be restricted to one side of the record, which shall it be? The patent for the two-sided record was over-turned, and the concept went into the public domain; by 1923, all companies were using it.

The commercialization of discs

Disc recording is inherently neither better nor worse than cylinder recording in potential audio fidelity. Recordings made on a cylinder remain at a constant linear velocity for the entirety of the recording, while those made on a disc have a higher linear velocity at the outer portion of the groove compared to the inner portion. Edison's patented recording method recorded with vertical modulations in a groove. Berliner utilized a laterally modulated groove. Though Edison's recording technology was better than Berliner's, there were commercial advantages to a disc system:

United States Gramophone Company (1893)

In 1893, Emile Berliner founded the United States Gramophone Company in Washington, DC, to attract investments for his gramophone (US Patent No. 534,543, Feb. 19, 1895). Berliner successfully argued that his technology was different enough from Edison's that he did not need to pay royalties on it, which reduced his business expenses.

Berliner Gramophone Company (1895)

The Berliner Gram-o-phone Company was established in Philadelphia during the fall of 1895 by a group of business men to manufacture all equipments and disks under license from the United States Gramophone Company. Emile Berliner was a minority shareholder in this company and the patent rights to the gramophone were owned by the United States Gramophone Company. As the sales remained slim, the company soon realized that improvements to the invention had to be made, in particular by equipping the gramophone with a spring motor. Eldridge R. Johnson from Candem, NJ,  invented one and manufactured around 25,000 of them for the company between 1896 and 1900.

Inexperienced in marketing, the Berliner Gramophone Company signed a publicity contract with Frank Sieman from New York putting Berliner's invention in the hands of three firms: the Berliner Gramophone Company that manufactures gramophones and discs, the Seaman's Gramophone Company of New York that makes the publicity and the United States Gramophone Company that owns the patent.

Pathé Frères (1894)

Founded in Paris in 1894 by Charles and Emile Pathé to manufacture their own sound recording machine that they called successively "Le Coq" and "Pathéphone". It started distribution in Canada in 1914 by J.A. Hurteau & Co, Montreal and M.W. Glendon, Toronto

National Gramophone Company (1896)

The National Gramophone Company was founded in 1896 by Frank Seaman to distribute, sell and publicize the gramophones. In 1898, William Barry Owen and E. Trevor founded the Gramophone Company (England) to manufacture and distribute gramophones and disks in Europe. In 1900, it changes its name to The Gramophone & Typewriter Company Ltd;. In 1907, it returned to its original name.

At the beginning of 1900, Seaman's National Gramophone signed a deal with the American Graphophone Company and Columbia Phonograph to manufacture the Zonophone. Emile Berliner felt this deal to be a rupture of its exclusivity contract for the sale of gramophones in the United States. On June 25, 1900, Seaman filed an injunction against the Berliner Gramophone Company that forced Emile Berliner out of the American market.

Berliner Gramophone Company of Canada (1900)

These problems explain in part why Emile Berliner decided to install its company in Montreal. The new company was called E. Berliner, Montreal and it was founded to obtain the rights to distribute and sell gramophones and disks in Canada. In 1904, the company was restructured, renamed and incorporated as the Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada.

On July 16, 1900, Emile Berliner registered the new trade mark of his company, the dog Nipper listening to a gramophone, in the Patent Office. This image that was created by the painter Francis Barraud was used during more than 60 years.

Between 1904 and 1906, the Berliner Gramophone Company of Canada will produce several models of the gramophone (Model A, Model B "Ideal", Model E "Bijoux" and the Model C "Grand") as well as 7", 10" and "De Luxe" 12" discs. The first one-sided discs showed the image of Nipper. It is only in 1908 the the first double-sided discs were produced.

Victor Talking Machine Company (1901)

The Victor Talking Machine Company was founded in 1901 by Eldridge Johnson to represent the interest of Emile Berliner in the United States. In 1909, the company is restructured and renamed Berliner Gram-o-phone Company and starts selling disks under the label "His Master's Voice" from recordings made in England and France. In 1924, the Victor Talking Machine Company took control and rename the firm the Victor Talking Machine Company of Canada.

A decade later, Eldridge Johnson, who had produced the Gramophones for Berliner, won in court the right to produce his own line of disc machines and records, but was prohibited from using the "Gramophone" name.  He instead chose a trade name that bore no resemblance to anything else in the industry, but rather, one that connoted superiority and success: "Victor". In 1929, the company will become RCA Victor after a fusion with RCA

Canadian Vitaphone Company (1913)

The Canadian Vitaphone Company was founded in Toronto in 1913 by W.R. Fosdick, former manager of the His Master's Voice Ltd, Toronto. It manufactured the Vitaphone, a machine that featured a wooden tone-arm and stationary sound-box. It imported disks from Columbia and sold them under its own labels.

Starr Piano (1915)

In 1915, Starr Piano entered the recording field with obsolete recording equipment and old master discs from a bankrupt firm in Boston. From 1915 to 1918, records were issued under the Starr label, but the company found that some independent dealers refused to carry the records because the name Starr was already strongly associated with pianos and phonographs. The label name was changed to Gennett in 1918 at the suggestion of Fred Gennett.

Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Canada (1919)

Though is main activity was related  to billiard tables, this company opened a plant to manufacture the Ultona speaking machine in Toronto in 1919. In 1920, they added disk manufacturing to their activities.

The labels

One idea that did catch on fairly quickly was the attempt to attach a paper label to a disc record. The thought was not entirely new, as disc records of the early nineties were of such low clarity that labels were used to type out the lyrics. But the shellac and celluloid used for early discs did not stick well to paper glue. Eldridge Johnson then patented a new method of applying a circular label in 1900 while the record was still hot and this technique was used for many years. As a matter of fact, the label soon became more important than the record when a gramophone dealer in Russia in 1901 tried to interest one of Berliner's European subsidiaries in paying an exorbitant artist's fee to four of the Czar's favorite singers. The dealer, who had outfitted a fancy shop on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, suggested a sure-fire way to make the money back. Charge five times as much for the record, but make the labels red - he claimed that the aristocracy would gladly pay extra for this prestige series. The idea was approved by the head of the Deutsche Gramophone Co. as well as the head office in England, and the first Red-Seal operatic records were born, and imported here in 1903. Trademark registration was secured in France as well as the U.S., but England refused to register a color. These 10" and 12" records became a tremendous source of revenue for the Victor Talking Machine Co. and introduced a young Enrico Caruso to the world; over 131,000,000 red-label records of all singers were sold up through 1942, at retail prices from $1 to $7 each! .

Description of the collection

The collection is comprised of 182 disks and 272 tracks, most of them produced in Canada by the Berliner Gramophone Company under the Victor label and by Columbia. Only two of the records were produced by Pathé. For this reason, I will focus on Canadian labels.

Columbia

Berliner Gramophone Company

In  1901, the U.S. Victor firm introduced the 10-inch "Monarch" record and these appeared in Canada as the "Berliner Concert Grand" record. Shortly thereafter, probably late 1902 or 1903, the familiar figure of Nipper appeared on a label similar to the Victor/ Monarch label, then in use in America, and the brand name was simplified to "Concert Record" while the label color was lightened to match the milk-chocolate color of the actual record. During this period, and probably until 1904, the Canadian records differed from their U.S. counterparts in two respects; first, they were numbered in their own sequence, with most in a 5000 series (even though the majority were pressed from Victor matrices), and second, the center holes of the records were protected by a brass ferrule - a feature which would have saved many a record for today's collectors, as the automatic changers introduced in the late 1930s had a tendency to chew away at the hole in the record!

In early 1905 the "Monarch" and "Deluxe" labels, identifying 10 and 12-inch Victor records respectively, were replaced by the Victor name, which henceforth appeared on virtually all the records of the company. At the same time or shortly later, the "Concert" label was replaced by a "Victor" label on Berliner's records from U.S. matrices, with a notice announcing that the record was specifically "for sale or use in Canada only". It was at or near this time that the Canadian number sequences were dropped and Victor numbers were used. Somewhat later, the phrase "His Master's Voice" was added above the "Victor Record" which appeared on each side of the center hole, so that the trade name appeared to read "His Master's Voice-Victor", a phrasing which was used until 1947 on Canadian Berliner and Victor products, with the exception of Berliner's Montreal-recorded products from 1918 until 1924 and a handful of records pressed from U.S. matrices which possibly used leftover labels from the Canadian records. These bore the legend "His Master's Voice" without "Victor".

The use of brown material for records continued through at least most, if not all, of 1909, and through the first 100-odd double-sided issues in the 16000 series. At some point late in 1909 or early 1910, the brown records were quietly discontinued, and Berliner's products appeared in the familiar black. This was the last North American appearance of brown or "red" records until Aeolian Vocalion introduced their label in late 1918. Ironically, the Canadian equivalent of this label appeared on black records! There were two rather odd types of records of the "brown wax" period. The first is the pre-1909 Canadian Red Seal series, brown material but with the familiar crimson label; the second apparently resulted from some frugal manager in Berliner's operation being unwilling to discard the brown labels left over from the matching records, and appears as occasional black records bearing two (or less often, one) brown labels.

In late 1909, Berliner introduced the first of their Canada-only issues since Victor masters had replaced the early Montreal-recorded sides. These were, however, not recorded in Montreal but were European (French) and English recordings which the firm felt would appeal to Canadian talking machine owners. 

[from Berliner Records]

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Complete list of records

The tables that follow provide a complete list of the ancient musical records in my collection. They are contained in albums which were originally numbered from 1 to 24 but some of these albums have been lost and, obviously, they are missing from the list.

The tables that follow display the content of each album. They are comprised of 182 records and 272 tracks. Each table is comprised of 4 columns. Each record is listed as a set of rows: the first row of each set gives the characteristics of the record itself (RPM, diameter) whereas the following rows display the characteristics of the tracks (one if it is single sided, two if it is double sided).

Album No. 1

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
1178 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87017 (680Rigoletto - La donna é mobile (Woman is Fickle) (Verdi) [Italian Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
1278 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87042 (68)Pour un baiser (For a Kiss) (Costi) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
1378 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87044 (68)Tosca - E lucevan le stelle (The Stars Were Shining) (Puccini) [Italian Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
1478 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87072 (68)Cavalleria Rusticana - Siciliane ("Thy Lips Like Crimson Berries") (Mascagni) [Italian Tenor with Harp]
Enrico Caruso
1578 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87122 (68)Because (Tschemacher-d'Herdelot) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
1678 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87159 (68)Your Eyes Have Told Me What I Did Not Know (Bowles-O'Hara) [English Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
1778 RPM 10"Victrola "Grand Prize" Record - Berliner Gram-o-phone Co. Limited, Montreal
87515 (68) - $2.50Serenade de Don Juan (Don Juan's Serenade) (Tschaikowsky) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso
1878 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87187 (68)Trusting Eyes (Edward Teschemacher-Clarence G. Gartner) [English Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
1978 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87269 (68) - $2.50Les Pecheurs de Perles - Chanson de mon amie (Act 2) (Bizet) [Tenor in French with Harp and Oboe]
Enrico Caruso
11078 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87271 (68)Pourquoi? - (Tell Me Why?) (Heine-Tschaikowsky) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
11178 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87312 (68)L'Addio a Napoli (Farewell to Naples) (Cottrau) [Tenor in Italian with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
11278 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87321 (68) - $1.25A Dream (Cory-Bartlett) [Tenor with Orchestra in English]
Enrico Caruso

Album No. 2

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
2178 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
87335 (68) - $1.50Messe Solennelle - Crucifixus (Crucified to Save Us) (Rossini) [in Latin]
Enrico Caruso
2278 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
64233 (7)Jocelyn - Berceuse (Lullaby) (Godard) [with Orchestra]
Edmond Clement
2378 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
64824 (28)Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen (American Negro Melody) (Clarence Cameron White) [with Orchestra]
Fritz Kreisler
2478 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
64234 (7)Werther - Lied d'Osium, "Pourquoi, me reveiller" (Massenet) [Tenor]
Geraldine Farrar, Antonio Scotti
2678 RPM Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
64101 (96)Lina (Symiane) (Chanson Napolitaine) [Baritone]
Emilio de Gorgoza
2778 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
64558 (7) - $1.25La Brabanconne (Belgian National Song) (Ch. Rogier - F. Campenhout) [in French]
McKee Trio
2878 RPM 10"Victrola "Grand Prize" Record - Berliner Gram-o-phone Co. Limited, Montreal
64235 (7) - $1.25Flauto Magico - Qui Isis (Mozart) [accompanied by Viictor Orchestra]
Marcel Journet, Marcel JournetVictor Orchestra
2978 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing - Victor Talking Machine Co of Canada Limited, Montreal
517-APour un baiser (For a kiss) (Costi) [with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
517-BPourquoi? - (Tell Me Why?) (Heine - Tschaikowsky) [with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
21078 RPM 10"Victor Red Seal "Batwing - Victor Talking Machine Co of Canada Limited, Montreal
1437-ABois Epais (Sombre Forest) (Air from Amadis) []
Enrico Caruso
1437-BPremière Caresse (The First Caress) (Da Crescenzo) [Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
21278 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18778-A (397) - $1.00Learn to Smile (from "The O'Brien Girl") ((Hirsch) [For Dancing]
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
18778-B (397) - $1.00Oh Me! Oh My! - Medley Fox Trot (from "Two Little Girls in Blue") (Youmans) [For Dancing]
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra

Album No. 3

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
3178 RPM 10"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A2121-46685Musical Moment (Schubert) [Violin solo with Orchestra]
Kathleen Parlow
A2121-46692Last Rose of Summer [Violin solo with Orchestra]
Kathleen Parlow
3278 RPM 10"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A2162-46684Minuet in G, No. 2 (Beethoven) [Violin solo with Orchestra]
Kathleen Parlow
A2162-46722Valse Bluette (Air de ballet) (Drigo-Auer) [Violin solo with Orchestra]
Kathleen Parlow
3378 RPM 10"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A2778-78321Rondino (On a melody by Eddy Brown) [Violin Solo]
Eddy Brown
A2778-78329To a Wild Rose (transcription by Arthur Hartmann) (MacDowell) [Violin Solo]
Eddy Brown
3478 RPM 10"Columbia "Grand Prizes" Record - Columbia Graphophone Company
A1928 (46300)Celebre Menuet (Valentin) [Flute, Cello and Harp]
Trio de Lutece
A1928 (46301)Serenade (Saint-Saëns) [Flute, Cello and Harp]
Trio de Lutece
3578 RPM 10"Columbia Record / Columbia Graphophone Co. (lime)
E4194-84233Kossovo Waltz []
Royal Serbian Tambouritza Orchestra
E4194-84788Waves of the Marne - Waltz []
Olga's Bidor Gypsy Orchestra
3678 RPM 10"Columbia Record / Columbia Graphophone Co. (lime)
E4658-84783Don Juan - Waltz []
Olga's Bidor Gypsy Orchestra
E4658-84787Gypsy Love - Waltz []
Olga's Bidor Gypsy Orchestra
3778 RPM 10"Columbia Record / Columbia Graphophone Co. (lime)
E4294-84233Kossovo Waltz []
Royal Serbian Tambouritza Orchestra
E4294-84788Waves of the Marne - Waltz []
Olga's Bidor Gypsy Orchestra
3878 RPM 10"Columbia Record / Columbia Graphophone Co. (lime)
E4375-85230Chanson de l'adieu []
Paul Dufault
E4375-85235Si je vous parlais de ma peine []
Paul Dufault
3978 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18835-A (397) - 85cMy Sweet Gal - Fox Trot (Green-Arden) []
All Star Trio and their Orchestra
18835-B (397) - 85cI'm Laughing All the Time - Fox Trot (Green-Arden) []
All Star Trio and their Orchestra
31078 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18866-A (397) - 85cThree O'Clock in the Morning - Waltz (Robledo) []
Joseph C. Smith and His Orchestra
18866-B (397) - 85cLola Lo - Fox Trot (Lange-Klapholz) []
Joseph C. Smith and His Orchestra
31178 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18901-A (397) - 85cSweet Indiana Home - Fox Trot (Donaldson) []
Club Royal Orchestra
18901-B (397) - 85cYou Win't Be Sorry - Fox Trot (Burnett-Marcasie) []
Club Royal Orchestra
31278 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18919-A (397) - 85cWho'll Take My Place (When I'm Gone) - Fox Trot (Fazioli) []
Club Royal Orchestra
18919-B (397) - 85cGeorgette - Fox Trot (Henderson) []
Club Royal Orchestra

Album No. 4

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
4178 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Note the Notes" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A2206 47278Where the black eyed Susans grow (Whiting) [Tenor Solo - Orchestra accompaniment]
Samuel Ash
A2206 47336After you've had your way (Howard) [Tenor Solo - Orchestra accompaniment]
Samuel Ash
4278 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A3343 79472June - Fox Trot (Hickman and Black - Kalmar and Ruby) [Dance Music AV Orchestra]
Art Hickman's Orchestra
A3343 79554Honolulu Eyes - Medley Waltz (Violinsky-Burkhart) [Dance Music AV Orchestra]
Prince's Orchestra
4378 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A2758 78459The Vamp () [Dance Music]
Waldorf Astoria Singing & Orchestra
A2758 78469Behind your silken veil - Medley Fox-Trot (Burnett) [Dance Music]
The Happy Six
4478 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A3859 80904Wonderful One (Whiteman and Grofe) [Dance Music - Waltz - Exclusive Artist]
Columbia Dance Orchestra
A3859 80905Red Moon (Martini and Kortlander) [Dance Music - Waltz (Exclusive Artist)]
Columbia Dance Orchestra
4578 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A2802 78505Down by the meadow brook - Waltz (Wendling) [Dance Music]
Columbia Orchestra
A2802 78611Enid - Waltz (Earl) [Dance Music/Sup. G. Hepburn Wilson]
Columbia Orchestra
4678 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A1250 38284Aubade - Morning Serenade (A. d'Ambrosio) [Violin Solo]
Cristeta Gory
A1250 38398Angel's Serenade (G. Braga) [Violin, Flute and Harp Trio]
George Stehl, Marshall Lufsky, Charles Schuetze
4778 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A631 3985Dreamy Moments - Liebesfruling Lander (Ehrich) [Harp, Flute and Violin Trio]
Pinto, Marshall Lufsky, George Stehl
A631 3987Birdie's Favorite (Cox) [Piccolo Solo - Orchestra accom^paniment]
Marshall Lufsky
4878 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A1537 39167Southern Zephyrs (E.S. Levy) []
Prince's Orchestra
A1537 39327Warbler's Farewell (Theo Moses-Tobani) [Violin, Flute and Harp Trio]
George Stehl, Marshall Lufsky, Charles Schuetze
4978 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A2202 47301Madam Butterfly - Selections (Puccini) [ Accordeon Solo]
Guido Deiro
A2202 47907Poor Butterfly (Hubbell) [Accordeon Solo]
Guido Deiro
41078 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A2760 78450Hawaiian Smiles - Waltz (King) [Dance Music]
The Happy Six
A2760 78461Wild Honey [Dance Music]
Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra
41178 RPM 10"Columbia "Magic Notes/Viva tonal Recording" / Columbia Phonograph Co. (green label)
34482-F (L-3378)Mon amour était mort (Ed. Harancourt et Claude Rohan) [Accomp. de piano, violon et violoncelle]
Jean Clement
34482-F (L-3379)Le chant de la pluis (Paul Verlaine et Anatol Lancel) [Accomp. de piano, violon et viloncelle]
Jean Clement

Album No. 5

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
5178 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
16760-A (102)-90cSonge d'Automne (Dream of Autumn) []
Maximilien Pilsner
16760-B (102)"G Frangesa" March []
5278 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
16817-A (71) - 90cBoston Commandery - March (Carter) []
Arthur Prior's Band
16817-B (71) - 90cNearer My God to Thee - Paraphrase (Langer) []
Arthur Prior's Band
5378 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17143-A (71) - 90cThe Sweetest Story Ever Told (Stuts) []
Napolitan Trio
17143-B (71) - 90cSimple Confession (Romance sans paroles, Op. 25) (Thomas) []
Napolitan Trio
5478 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17284-A (71)Faust - Ballet Music; Waltz: "Dance of the Nubian Slaves" (Gounod) []
Vessella's Italian Band
17284-B (71)Faust - Ballet Music; "Dance of the Trojan Maidens" and "Mirror Dance" (Gounod) []
Maximilien Pilsner
5578 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
17395-A (71) - 90cSpring Song (Mendelssohn) []
Maximilien Pilsner
17395-B (71) - 990cExtase (Ganne) (Transcription by Toban) []
Rosario Bourdon
5678 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
17476-A (71) - 90cThe Wedding of the Rose - Intermezzo (Leon Jessel) []
Conway's Band
17476-B (71) - 90cRendez-vous - Intermezzo (Aletter - Komzak) []
Victor Concert Orchestra
5778 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
17492-B (71) - 90cPeg O' My Heart (Fisher) [Violoncello Solo]
Rosario Bourdon
17492-B (71) 0 90cPeg O' My Heart (Fisher) [Violoncello Solo]
Rosario Bourdon
5878 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17585-A (71) - 90cSympathy Waltz (from "The Firefly") (Rudolf Frimi) [from Dancing (60 Bars per minute)]
Victor Miltary Band
17585-B (71) - 90cSwanee Ripples Rag - One Step (H.C. Thompson) [for Dancing (48 Bars per minute)]
Victor Miltary Band
5978 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17682-A (71) - 90cCecile - Waltz Hesitation (Frank W. McKee) [For Dancing]
Victor Miltary Band
17682-B (71)Millicent - Waltz Hesitation (Frank W. McKee) [For Dancing]
Victor Miltary Band
51078 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
17689-A (71) - 90cSylvia Ballet - Valse Lento (Leo Delibes) [Concert Band]
Victor Concert Orchestra
17689-B (71) - 90cLe Secret - Intermezzo (Leonard Gauthier) [Concert Band]
Vessella's Italian Band
51178 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17781-A (71)On Wisconsin! - March (W.T. Purdy) []
Victor Miltary Band
17781-B (71)Pasadena March Day (Marco Vessella) []
Vessella's Italian Band
51278 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17785-A (71) - 90cSerenade (Franmz Drla) (Arranged by L.P. laurendeau) [Concert Band]
Vessella's Italian Band
17785-B (71) - 90cLa Manola - Spanish Serenade (Richard Eilenberg) [Band]
Conway's Band

Album No. 6

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
6178 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
17908-A (71) - 90cL'Arlésienne Suite (Bizet) Part 4 - "Farandole" [Concert Band]
Vessella's Italian Band
17908-B (71) - 90cCaprice Espanol (Paul Beaumont) (Arranged by Laurendeau) [Concert Band]
Vessella's Italian Band
6278 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18059-A (71) - 90cWhen You're Away (from "The Only Girl") (Victor Herbert) [with Orchestra]
Rosario Bourdon
18059-B (71) - 90cUnderneath the Stars (Herbert Spencer) [with Orchestra]
Rosario Bourdon
6378 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18063-A (71) - 90cIn the Gloaming (Annie Fortescue Harrison) [Piano and Celesta]
McKee Trio
18063-B (71) - 90cSupplication (Meditation) (Mabel B. McKee) [Piano and Celesta]
McKee Trio
6478 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18190-A (71) - 90cSerenade - Good-Night, Beloved (Ethelbert Nevin) [Violin, Cello and Piano]
McKee Trio
18190-B (71) - 90cBohemian Girl Melodies (Balfe) [Violin, Cello and Piano]
McKee Trio
6578 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18230-A (71) - 90cThe Vacant Chair (George F. Root) [Violin, Cello and Piano]
McKee Trio
18230-B (71) - 90cI Cannot Sing the Old Songs (Claribel) [Violin, Cello and Piano]
McKee Trio
6678 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18243-A (71)The Miracle of Love (Frank W. McKee) [Violin, Cello and Piano with Ceklesta]
McKee Trio
18243-B (71)Gavotte (Alleter) [Violin, Cello and Piano with Orchestra]
McKee Trio
6778 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
18360-A (71) - 90cNaval Research March (John Philip Souza) [Militray Band]
Conway's Band
18360-B (71) - 90cWhite Rose March (John Philip Souza) [Military Band]
Conway's Band
6878 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18539-A (397) - 90cKentucky Dream Waltz (S.R. Henry-D. Onivas) [For Dancing]
Nicholas Orlando's Orchestra
18539-B (397) - 90cVelvet Lady - Medley Waltz (Victor Herbert) [For Dancing]
Nicholas Orlando's Orchestra
6978 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18756-A (397) - $1.00Toddle - Medley Fox Trot (Biese-Westphal-Steiger) [For Dancing]
The Benson Orchestra of Chicago
18756-B (397) - 90cMy Man (Mon Homme) - Fox Trot (Maurice Yvain) [For Dancing]
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
61078 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18761-A (397) - $1.00Legend - Medley Waltz (Levey) []
Joseph C. Smith and His Orchestra
18761-B (397) - 90cI'll Keep On Loving You - Fox Trot (Rose) []
The Benson Orchestra of Chicago
61178 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18769-A (397) - $1.00Star of the Sea - Reverie (Kennedy) [Violin, Flute, Cello and Harp with Celesta]
Florentine Quartet
18769-B (397) - $1.00Meditation (C.S. Morrison, Op. 90) [Violin, Flute, Cello and Harp]
Florentine Quartet
61278 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
18777-A (397)Cho-Cho-San - Fox Trot (on melodies by G. Puccini arranged by Hugo Frey) [For Dancing]
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
18777-B (397)Song of India - Fox Trot (adapted from Rimsky-Korsakow's Chanson Indoue by Paul Whiteman) [For Dancing]
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra

Album No. 8

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
8178 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
21697-A (900) - $1.00Sweet and Low - Waltz [For Dancing]
Henri's Orchestra
21697-B (900) - $1.00Bohemia - One Step (Broaker-Weslin) [For Dancing]
Van Eps Quartet
8278 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216155-A (900) - $1.00Your Eyes Have Told Me So - Waltz (Blaufuss) [For Dancing]
Henri's Orchestra
216155-B (900) - $1.00Chu Chu San - Japanese Fox Trot (Samuels) []
Henri's Orchestra
8378 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216204-A (900) - $1.00Avalon - Fox Trot [For Dancing]
Raderman's Novelty Orchestra
216204-B (900) - $1.00Hiawata's Melody of Love - Waltz (Bryan-Meyer-Clarke-Donaldson) [For Dancing]
Raderman's Novelty Orchestra
8478 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216195-A (900) - $1.00Any Place Would be Wonderful With You - Fox Trot (Buck-Stamper-Berlin) [For Dancing]
Diamond Trio
216195-B (900) - $1.00Kismet - Fox Trot (Diero) [For Dancing]
Yerkes Blue Bird Orchestra
8578 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216233-A (900) - $1.00Feather Your Nest - Fox Trot (Kendis-Brockman-Johnson) [For Dancing]
Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra
216233-B (900) - $1.00Marimba - Fox Trot (Black) [For Dancing]
Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra
8678 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216254-A (900) - $1.00Beautiful Annabel Lee - Waltz (Meyer) [For Dancing]
Vanderbilt Hotel Orchestra
216254-B (900) - $1.00Rosie (Make It Rosey For Me) - Fox Trot (Clark-Merkin) []
Vanderbilt Hotel Orchestra
8778 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216279-A (900) - $1.00Cherie - Fox Trot (Wood-Bibs) [For Dancing]
Emile Coleman and His Orchestra
216279-B (900) - $1.00Mello' Cello - Waltz Lange-Moret) [For Dancing]
Emile Coleman and His Orchestra
8878 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216277-A (900) - $1.00Do You Ever Think of Me = Fox Trot (Burnett) [For Dancing]
Rega Orchestra
216277-B (900) - $1.00Cuban Eyes - Fox Trot (N. and J. Shilkert) [For Dancing]
Martucci's Venitian Garden Orchestra
8978 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216923-A (900) - $1.00In a Boat for Two - Fox Trot (Ruby-Lange-Liggy-Klapholz) [For Dancing]
Emile Coleman and His Orchestra
216923-B (900) - $1.00Tea Leaves - Fox Trot (Eager-Whiting) [For Dancing]
Emile Coleman and His Orchestra
81078 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216314-A (900) - $1.00Peggy O'Neil - Waltz (Pease-Nelson-Dodge) [For Dancing]
The Melody Men
216314-B (900) - $1.00Vamping Rose - Fox Trot (Violinsky-Schuster) [For Dancing]
Van Eps Quartet
81178 RPM 10"Victor Blue "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
45096-A (237) - $1.25Le Cygne (The Swan) (Saint-Saëns) [Violoncello]
Hans Kindler
45096-B (237) - $1.25Melody in F (Rubenstein) [Violoncello]
Hans Kindler

Album No. 12

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
12178 RPM 10"Pathé
X. 94027-20298J'avais pourtant juré (Léo Daniderff) Paroles de E. Ronn & L. Daniderf [Made in France]
La Palma de l'Empire
X. 94027-202988Je t'ai attendue - mélodie (R. Desmoulins) - Paroles de R. Desmoulins & Verly [Made in France]
La Palma de l'Empire
12278 RPM 10"Victor Blue "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
45122-A (191) - $1.25Tosca - "Le ciel luisait d'étoiles" (The Stars Were Brightly Shining) (Acte 3) (Puccini) [Tenor avec Orchestre]
Leon Campagnola
45122-B (191) - $1.25Boheme - "Ah! Mimi s'en est allée" (Ah! Mimi, False One) (Acte 4) (Puccini) [Duo avec Orchestre]
Leon Campagnola, Paul Vigneault
12378 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216078-A (900)On Miami Shore - Waltz (Jacobi) [For Dancing]
Beck's Orchestra
216078-B (900)Peggy - Fox Trot (Moret-Williams) [For Dancing]
Coleman's Orchestra
12478 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
52023 (49) - 75cVision of Salome (Joice) [Orch]
Bohemian Orchestra
12578 RPM 10"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
69277-A (86)Faust - Anges purs (Trio Final) (Gounod) [avec Orchestre]
Mme Auguez de Montalent
69277-B (86)Faust - Chorakl des Epees (Gounod) [avec Orchestre]
Paul Vigneault
12678 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216407-A (900) - 90cThe Bluebird - Waltz (Kummer) [For Dancing]
Miro's Band
216407-B (900) - 90cGeraldine - Waltz Hesitation (Lodge-Lampe) [For Dancing]
Miro's Band
12778 RPM 10"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
216074-A (900) - $1.00Patches - Fox Trot (Roberts) [For Dancing]
Coleman's Orchestra
216074-B (900) - $1.00Dardanella - Fox Trot (Characteristic Intermezzo) (Bernard-Black) [For Dancing]
Coleman's Orchestra

Album No. 13

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
13178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74165 (124)-Introduction and Rondo Caprioso (Saint-Saens) [Violon solo accompanied by Percy B. Kahn]
Mischa Elman
13278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74264 (8)Le Roi d'Ys - Vainement, ma bien aimée (Lalo) (In vain, my beloved) [French Tenor accompanied by Victor Orchestra]
Edmond Clement
13378 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74508 (8)Le Cor (The Horn) (Alfred de Vigny-Flegier) [Bass with occhestra in French]
Marcel Journet
13478 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74545 (376) - $2.00Nocturne in F Major (Chopin, Op. 15, No. 1) [Pianoforte Solo]
Ignace Jan Paderewski
13578 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74635 (389)Valse (fr0m Serenade for String Orchestra) (Tschaikowsky, Op. 48) [Violon sole with Orchestra]
Yasha Heifetz
13678 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74684 (410) - $2.00Walkure - The Ride of the Valkyries (Act 3) (Wagner) [Leopold Stokowski, conductor]
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
13778 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
74686 (461) - $2.00Capricio Valse (Waltz Capricio) (Henri Wieniaski, Op. 7) [Violin Solo - accompanied by ASlice Morini]
Erika Morini
13878 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
76022 (298)Pecheurs de Perles - Au fond du temple saint, Act, 1 (Bizet) [French Duet with Orchestera]
Edmond Clement, Marcel Journet
13978 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88003 (45)Salut, Demeure - Faust (Gounod) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
131078 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88054 (45)L'Africana - O Paradiso (Oh, Paradiso) (Meyerbeer) [Italian Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
131178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88061 (45) - $3.50Pagliaci - Vesti la giubba (On With the Play) (Ruggiero-Leoncavallo) [Italian Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
131278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88115 (45)Valse Lente - "Adorables Tourments" (Caruso-Barthelemy) [French Tenor accompanied by Victor Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso

Album No. 14

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
14178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88127 (45)Aida - Celeste Aida (Verdi) [Italian Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
14278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88199 (43)Samson et Dalila - "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" (Saint-Saens) [French Contralto with Orchestra]
Louise Homer
14378 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88203 (45)Carmen - Air de la fleur (Flower Song) (Bizet) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
14478 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88339 (45)Elesir d'amore - Una furtiva lagrima (A Fuirtive Tear, Act II) (Donizetti) [Italian Tenor accompanied by Victor Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
14578 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88348 (45)Manon - "Ah! Fuyez douce image!" (Depart, Fair Vision) (Act III) (Massenet) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Louis Graveure
14678 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88403 (45)Hosanna (Granier) [French Tenor accompanied by Victor Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
14778 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88425 (45)Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) (Bizet) [Latin Tenor with Orchestra; Pianoforte by Scognami]
Enrico Caruso
14878 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88425 (45)Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) (Bizet) [Latin Tenor with Orchestra; Pianoforte by Scognami]
Enrico Caruso
14978 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88459 (45)Les Rameaux (The Palms) (Jean Faure) [Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
141078 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88460 (45)Stabat Mater-Cujus Animam (Though His Wounded Side) (Rossini) [Tenor with Orchestra in Latin]
Enrico Caruso
141178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88472 (45)Tiempo antico (Olden Times) (Enrico Caruso) [Tenor with Orchestra in Italian]
Enrico Caruso
141278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88552 (45)La Reine de Sabat - Prête-moi ton aide (Qheen of Sheba - Lend mMe Your Aid) (Gounod) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso

Album No. 15

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
15178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88554 (45)Le Cid - "O Souverain, o juge, o pere!" ("Oh Heaven, Earth and Sea") [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
15278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88554 (45)Le Cid - "O Souverain, o juge, o pere! ("Oh Heaven, Earth and Sea") [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
15378 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88559 (45)Sancta Maria (J. Bertrand-Jean Faure) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso
15478 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88561 (45)Cantique de Noel (Holy Night) (Chrismas Song) (Adolphe Adam) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
15578 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88579 (45)Chanson de Juin (Song of June) (Benjamin Goddard, Op. 102, No. 6) (Poem by Victor Barrucand) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso
15678 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88580 (45)Pecheurs de Perles - Je crois entendre encore (Pearl Fishers-I Hear as in a Dream) (Act 1) (Bizet) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso
15778 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88580 (45)Pecheurs de Perles - Je crois entendre encore (Pearl Fishers-I Hear as in a Dream) (Act 1) (Bizet) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso
15878 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88581 (45)Samson et Dalila - Vois ma misere, helas (Sore My Distress, Alas) (Act 3) (Saint-Saens) [Tenor with Metropolitain OperChorus and orchestra;]
Enrico Caruso
15978 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88582 (45)Eugen Onegin - Air de Lienski, "Echo lointain de ma jeunesse) (Tschaikowsky) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
151078 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88589 (45) - $3.50Nero - Ah, mon sort! ("Oh, My Fate") (Act 2) (Rubenstein) [French Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
151178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88600 (45)Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse (Marching Song of the French Soldiers) (P. Cezano-R.Planquette) [In French - Tenor with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
151278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88629 (45) - $2.00Messe Solennelle - Domine Deus (Praise Forever to God, the Father) (Rossini) [Tenor in Latin with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso

Album No. 16

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
16178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88617 (45)Largo (from "Xerxes") (Handel) [Tenor in Italian with Orchestra)]
Enrico Caruso
16278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88625 (45) - $2.00La Juive - Rachel! quand du Seigneur la frâce tutélaire(Act 4) (Halevy) [Tenor with Orchestra in French]
Enrico Caruso
16378 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
88628 (45) - $2.00Serenata (Memories of a concert) (Caruso-Bracco) [Tenor in Italian with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso
16478 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89007 (110)Pescatori di Perle (Pearl Fishers) Del tempiarai timitar (Bizet) [Ttalian Duet with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso, Mario Ancona
16578 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89030 (106)Il Trovatore - Miserere (Veerdi) [Italian Duet with Orchestra and Met. Opera Chorus]
Frances Alsa, Enrico Caruso
16678 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89031 (63)Faust - Sempre amar (Forever Thine) (Duet from Garden Scene, Part II) (Gounod) [French Duet with Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso
16778 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89033 (63)Faust - Act V, "Prison Scene) Part I "Mon coeur est pénétré d'épouvante!"(Gounod) [French Duet with Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso
16878 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89034 (63)Faust - Act V, "Prison Scene", Part II, "Attend! voisi la rue" (Gounod) [French Duet with Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso
16978 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89039 (110)Faust - Finale, Act 1, "OMerveille!" (Heavenly Vision) (Gounod) [French Duet with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet
161078 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89054 (10)Crucifix (Faure) [French Duet with Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet
161178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89059 (63)Manon - On l'appelle, Manon (She is called Manon) (Act III) (Massenet) [French Duet with Orchestra)]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso
161278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89065 (248)Ave Maria (Kahn) [Latin Tenor with violin and piano by Perry B. Kahn]
Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman

Album No. 17

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
17178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89065 (248)Ave Maria (Kahn) [Latin Tenor with Violin and piano by Perry B. Kahn]
Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman
17278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89066 (248)Eligie - Melodie (Massenet) [French Tenor with Violin and piano by Perry B. Kah]
Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman
17378 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89066 (248)Eligie - Melodie (Massenet) [French Tenor with violin and piano by Perry B. Kah]
Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman
17478 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89083 (396)A la luz de la luna (In the Moonlight) (Anton-Michelena) [Duet Spanish]
Enrico Caruso, Emilio de Gorgoza
17578 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89084 (248)Si vous l'aviez compris - Melodie (Had You But Known) (L. Danza) [French Tenor with Violin]
Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman
17678 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89084 (248)Si vous l'aviez compris - Melodie (Had You But Known) (L. Danza) [French Tenor with Violin and Pianoforte]
Mme Auguez de Montalent
17778 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89085 (248)Les deux Serenades (Leoncavallo) [Tenor with Violin in French + pianoforte]
Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman
89085 (318)Mignon - Connais-tu le pays? (Knowest Thou the Land?) (Act 1) (Ambroise Thomas) [French Soprano with Violin Obbligato and Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Fritz Kreisler
17878 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
89109 (318)Mignon - Connais-tu le pays? (Knowest Thou the Land?) (Act 1.) (Ambroise Thomas) [French Soprano with Violin Obbligato and Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Fritz Kreisler
17978 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
95023 (109)Faust - Acte V "Prison Scene" Part III "Alerte! Ou vous etes perdus" (Gounod) [French Trio accompanied by Victor Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet
171078 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
95204(109)Faust - Seigneur Dieu! (Quartet from Garden Scene, Part 1) [French Quartet with Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet, Mme Gilibert
171178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
95205 (109)Faust - Et Quoi Toujours Seule? (Quartet from Garden Scene, Part III) (Gounod) [French Quartet with Orchestra]
Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet, Mme Guilbert
171278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
95206 (120)Faust - Trio du Duel, "Que voulez-vous messieurs" , Act. III (Gounod) [French Trio accompanied by Victor Orchestra]
Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti, Marcel Journet

Album No. 18

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
18178 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36513Die Meistersinger (Wagner) [Violin Solo - signature engraved]
Eugene Ysaye
18278 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Phonograph Company
36514Scherzo Valse (Chabrier) [Violin Solo - signature engraved]
Eugene Ysaye
18378 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Phonograph Company
36516Lointain passé - Mazurka (E. Ysaye) [Violin Solo]
Eugene Ysaye
18478 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36519Berceuse Lulaby (Gabrielo Faure) [Violin Solo - signature engraved]
Eugene Ysaye
18578 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36520Concerto in E Minor - Finale (Menselssohn) [Violin Solo]
Eugene Ysaye
18678 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Phonograph Company
36521Mazurkas Opus 19 (a) Obertass (b) Menetrier (H. Wieniaske) [Violin Solo]
Eugene Ysaye
18778 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36523Rodino Op.23 (VieuxTemps) [Violin Solo]
Eugene Ysaye
18878 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36524Hungarian Dance No. 5, in G (Johanes Brahms) [Violin Solo - signature engraved]
Eugene Ysaye
18978 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36525Caprice Viennois Opus 2 (Kreisler) [Violin Solo]
Eugene Ysaye
181078 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Phonograph Company
36526Albumblatt (Richard Wagner) [Violin Solo - signature engraved]
Eugene Ysaye
181178 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
36907Ave Maria (Schubert) [Violin Solo]
Eugene Ysaye
181278 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
49112Pearl of Brazil (David) Gentil Augel (Charming Bird) [Soprano Solo in French]
Maria Barrientos

Album No. 19

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
19178 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
49564Gypsy Airs (Zigeunerweisen Opus 20) (Sarasate) [Violin Solo]
Toscha Seidel
19278 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5412 36392Humoreske Opus 101, No. 7 (Anton Dvorak) [Violin Solo with Orchestra Accompaniment]
Kathleen Parlow
A5412 48675Melodie Opus 42, No.. 3 (P. Tschaikowsky) [Violin Solo with Orchestra Accompaniment]
Kathleen Parlow
19378 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5679 37129Salut d'amour (Elgar) [Violoncello Solo whti Orchestra Accompaniment]
Pablo Casals
A5679 37252Traumerei (Schumann) [Violoncello Solo]
Pablo Casals
19478 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5792 48562Herodiade "Vision fugitive (Fleeting Vision) (Massenet) [Baritone Solo with Orchestra accompaniment]
Louis Graveure
A5792 48563Pagliaci Prologo (Prologue) (Leoncavallo) [Baritone Solo with Orchestra accompaniment]
Louis Graveure
19578 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5904 48881Elegie (Massenet) [Violin Solo - Maurice C. Rumsey at the Piano]
Eddy Brown
A5904 48884Cavatina (Raff) [Violin Solo - Maurice C. Rumsey at the Piano]
Eddy Brown
19678 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5908 48662Faust Fantaisie Opus 20 (Gounod-Wieniawsky) [Violin Solo with Orchestra accompaniment]
Kathleen Parlow
A5908 48663Cavaleria Rusticana Intermezzo (Mascagni) [Violin Solo with Orchestra accompaniment]
Kathleen Parlow
19778 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5991 49193Poet and Peasent Ouverture Part. I (Von Suppe) [Under the direction of Frederick Stock]
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
A5991 49194Poet and Peasent Ouverture Part. I I (Von Suppe) [Under the direction of Frederick Stock]
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
19878 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5992 48705Carmen Fantaisy (Bizet-Sarasate) [Charles A. Prince at the Piano]
Kathleen Parlow
A5992 48706Nocturne Opus 9, No. 2 (Chopin-Sarasate) [Charles A. Prince at the Piano]
Kathleen Parlow
19978 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5999 48645Le Cor (The Horn) (Flegier) [Bass Solo with Orchestra accompaniment]
Leon Rothier
A5999 49169Les deux grenadiers (Two grenadiers) (Schumann) [Bass Solo with Orchestra accompaniment]
Leon Rothier
191078 RPM 12"Columbia Record - Symphony Series - Columbia Graphophone Company
A6140 49707Orpheus in Hades "Orfée aux enfers" Ouverture Part I. Key of "G" Major (Offenbach) [Under the Direction of Eugen Ysaye]
Cincinati Symphony Orchestra
A6140 49708Orpheus in Hades "Orfée aux enfers" Ouverture Part II. Key of "G" Major (Offenbach) [Under the Direction of Eugen Ysaye]
Cincinati Symphony Orchestra
191178 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
96201 (184)Lucia di Lamermoor - Chi mi frena (What restrains me?) (Act II) (Donizetti [Italian Sextette with Orchestra]
Luisa Tetrazzini, Enrico Caruso, Pasquale Amato, Marcel Journet, Josephine Jacoby, Angelo Bada
191278 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
96001 (61)Rigoletto - Quartet, Act III Bella figlia dell' amore (Verdi) [Italian Quartet]
Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Antonio ScottiSeverina

Album No. 20

ALRPM/diameterLabel
Disk NumberTitle
20178 RPM 12"Columbia "Grand Prizes" Record - Columbia Graphophone Company
A5331 (30344)Aida Selections (Verdi) []
Prince's Orchestra
A5331 (30814)Aida (Verdi) "O terra addio" (Farewell, Oh earth) [Soprano and Tenor Duet with chorus song in Italian]
Luisa Villani, Carlo Cartica
20278 RPM 12"Columbia "Magic Notes/Note the Notes" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A5929 49004Charming Waltz (Joyce) [Price $1.50]
Prince's Orchestra
A5929 49024A dream Introducing: Melody in F (Bertlett and Rubinstein) [Price $1.50]
Prince's Orchestra
20378 RPM 12"Columbia "Magic Notes/Note the Notes" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A6081 49084My Belgian Rose - Medley Waltz [Price $1.50]
Prince's Orchestra
A6081 49490Beautiful Ohio - Waltz (Earl) [Price $1.50]
Prince's Orchestra
20478 RPM 12"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A6129 37486William Tell Overture - Part II - The Storm (Rossini) [Price in Canada $1.50 - Price in US $1.25]
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
A6129 37488William Tell Overture - Part I - At Dawn (Rossini) [Price in Canada $1.50 - Price in US $1.25]
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
20578 RPM 12"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A6132 49681Pretty Little Rainbow - Medley Waltz (Plumkett) [Price in US $1.25 - Price in Canada $1.50 - Dance]
Prince's Orchestra
A6132 49688Dreamy Alabama - Medley Waltz (Earl-Richardson) [Dance Music]
Prince's Orchestra
20678 RPM 12"Columbia "Magic Notes/Grafonola" / Columbia Graphophone Co.
A7547 37497Ballet Copelia - Entr' Acte et Valse (Delibes) [Price in Canada $1.50 - Price in U.S. $1.25]
Prince's Orchestra
A7547 48936Sylvia Baller - Valse Lento et Pizzicato (Delibes) [Price in Canada $1.50 - Price in U.S. $1.25]
Prince's Orchestra
20780 RPM 29cmDisque Pathé "Coq" - Breveté S.G.D.F. - Grand Prix Paris 1900, Milan 1906, Londres 1906
53 697 - xDPL'Africaine (Meyerbeer) Air du sommeil [Prix: 5F]
Mme Mathilde Comès
53 706 - 27La Juive (Halevy) Air de Rachel [Prix: 5 F]
Mme Mathilde Comès
20878 RPM 12"Victor Black "Batwing" - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal (black)
35344-A (72) - $1.50Hearts and Flowers - Intermezzo (Tobani) [Concert Orchestra]
Victor Concert Orchestra
35344-B (72) - $1.50Glow - Worm - Idyl (Paul Lincke) [Military Band with Vocal Chorus]
Arthur Prior's Band
20978 RPM 12"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
35000-A (72) - $1.50Carmen Selection (Bizet) [Concert Band]
Sousa's Band
35000-B (72) - $1.50Der Freischutz Overture (Weber) [Concert Band]
Sousa's Band
201078 RPM 12"Victor Red Seal "Batwing" - Berliner Gram-o-phone Company Ltd, Montreal
6159-ALa Ronde des Lutins (Dance of the Goblins) (Scherzo fantastique) (A. Bazzini, Op. 25) [Violin Solo]
Yasha Heifetz
6159-BScherzo - Tarantelle (Henri Wienniawski, Op. 10) [Violin Solo - Pianoforte by Andre Benoist]
Yasha Heifetz
201178 RPM 12"HMV Black "Bat Wing" Label - Berliner Gramm-O-phone Co. Ltd Montreal
130205-A (215) - $1.50Caby (Borel Clerc) [Français - Tenor et Orchestre]
M. D'Oran
130205-B (215) - $1.50Fumeur d'Opium (Helmer) [Français - Tenor et Orchestre]
M. D'Oran

Annexes

References

As I am a complete "newbie" to record collection, I have made an extensive search for references dealing with this subject on the Web. The following references (except the first one) are the result of this research. Most of these references have been excerpted extensively in the preceding section and indebtness is hereby acknowledged.

  1. "American Celebrity Recordings 1900-1925" by Julian Morton Moses revised third edition published by Monarch Record Enterprises, 100 Highland Park Village, Dallas, Texas 75205-2788, ISBN 0-9632903-1-2, Copyright 1936, 1949 and 1993 by Julian Morton Moses - I have purchased this book in 1993 when I made a first attempt to finding the value of the records that I own. This book contains listings for all the lateral cut 78 rpm records of the great operatic artists and classical instrumentalists released during the acoustic era by Victor, Columbia, Vocalion and Brunswick.
  2. Tim's Phonographs and Old Records Web site provides a very comprehensive coverage of what every record collector should know.
  3. The Edison Cylinder and Disc Record Development Web page was the main source of date for the history of the early firms that produced cylinder and discs recordings.
  4. Richard Densmore's Edison Diamond Disc and 78rpm Record Collection Web site offers a list 78-rpm discs on its page entitled Richard Densmore's 78rpm Records. It refers to the Columbia labels as Columbia Symphony Series (COSS), Columbia Viva-tonal (COV), Columbia Grafonola (COLG), Columbia Grand Prizes (COLD), Columbia Flag (COLF) and Columbia Microphone (CPH).
  5. The goal of the Vintage Nauk's Record Web Site to advance the vintage record collecting hobby by providing products and services intended to educate and entertain the collecting fraternity at large. Among the pages of the site, one finds several that shows various labels from the Columbia, Victor: Columbia Labels Variety.
  6. The Davidr Sarnoff Library documents David Sarnoff's life; the history of radio, television, electronics, and communications; and the history of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Chapter 5 of this collection develops the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company.
  7. The Canadian Antique Phonograph Society was founded in 1970 and deals with all aspects of sound recording and its history: phonographs and gramophones, all types of sound recordings of historic importance, ephemera and related memorabilia. There is particular emphasis placed on the history of recorded sound in Canada.  It comprises pages dealing with the history of recorded sounds in Canada, the Berliner records, Victor records, RCA Victor records, Columbia records and other references to other companies.
  8. The " DLBEAAF  De La Belle Époque Aux Années Folles" web site (in french) deals with music recorded between 1890 and 1930. It contains a page that helps in dating Pathé discs.
  9. The Vinyl Record Collectors site is designed for the dedicated vinyl records collector and record buyer. It  takes you on a journey through history to the first voice recorder instrument known as the Thomas Edison's Tinfoil Cylinder Phonograph.
  10. The Helmut Weber's Hobby Page provides helpful data for dating 78rpm records.
  11. The American Memory Web Site of the Library of Congress encompasses several topics of interest, especially one on technology and industry. Within this topic, there is a collection dealing with the early recording industry and Emile Berliner.
  12. The Virtual Gramophone Web Site of the Library and Archives, Canada, is a bilingual site that is devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound. It provides a very comprehensive coverage of the history of recorded sounds in Canada.
  13. The Gramophone from Emile Berliner's home page.

Potentially inaccurate details

It is possible that some of my assertions about the use of glass for masters and playing copies may not be fully accurate. In a e-mail received on January 10 2011, Art Shifrin wrote:

« About  50 years after Berliner's process was comercialized, glass base acetate coated disks were introduced as a result of Lend Lease. Aluminum had been previously used as a base but by then had serious priority uses. Acetates (introduced by Watts in England and Pyrol in  France circa 1931) were used for several purposes.  For record pressing, they supplanted wax masters, which were difficult to prepare (they had to be polished and kept warm) for recording.  Acetates were a superb pre-tape method for recording, and then instantaneously (if necessary) playing them back.  Such playbacks did not require costly and time consuming pressing. They were also used by broadcasters re-air programs and to maintain file copies. Due to resonance issues, glass base disks produced superior fidelity than did their aluminum base counterparts.  But the large ones (16" & 17" diameters) were particularly fragile: much more so than shellac pressings.  They required very delicate handling.  Aluminum based acetates were again available by '45.  But the glass was reintroduced a few years later by Presto for their superior fidelity.  Practical considerations and the introduction of professional quality tape systems (i.e. the Ampex 200A) made them quickly become obsolete. »


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