EDISON AMBEROL CYLINDERS RECORDS (FOUR-MINUTE WAX) - COMPLETE HISTORY & CYLINDEROGRAPHY, 1908-1913

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Edison Amberol Cylinders:
U.S. & Foreign Issues, 1908–1913
 
The American Cylinder Record Index Series

Compiled from original Edison source materials
by Allan Sutton

7" x 10" quality softcover
256 total pages
Illustrated
 
$45

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The first and only definitive cylinderography of Edison's four-minute wax Amberols (including the little-known 1913 foreign-catalog releases), compiled from the surviving studio cash books, production files, catalogs, and house publications, along with careful inspection of the original cylinders. Features include:

Listing, release, and catalog dates
  Recording locations (with recording dates, where verifiable from surviving documentation)
Accompanists, backing-group personnel, and artist pseudonyms
  Composer and show credits
  Medley contents and interpolated songs
Corresponding Blue Amberol reissues with release dates
  Illustrated history of the Amberol cylinder and Amberola phonographs
  Artist and title indexes

These are new first-quality sealed copies, shipped directly from the publisher

ALLAN SUTTON is the author of numerous books on vintage sound recordings and the early American recording industry, including Recording the 'Twenties, A Phonograph in Every Home, American Record Labels and Companies: An Encyclopedia (1891–1943), and multiple editions of Pseudonyms on American Records. He is a winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Lifetime Achievement Award.

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