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Edison Blue Amberol Cylinders
American, Foreign, and Special Issues (1912 – 1929)

By Allan Sutton
ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

The only complete, fully detailed Edison Blue Amberol cylinderography, compiled from the original Edison documentation.

This deluxe hardcover includes the complete American and foreign-series issues, as well as private and special-use Blue Amberol cylinders. You'll find much a wealth of information — much of it not previously accessible to the general public, and appearing in print here for the first time. Features include:

Recording and release dates from the Edison files, studio cash books, and catalogs
  Details on remakes, alternate versions, cancelled numbers, and direct- versus-dubbed recordings
     Disc takes used in the production of dubbed cylinders — most of them published here for the first time — plus data on the corresponding Diamond Disc and wax Amberol releases
       Private and special-use cylinders — including the Ediphone training records, Kinetophone motion-picture recordings, Panama-Pacific exhibit records, private issues for Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and other rarities
      Personnel details from the Edison files — vocal group members, accompanists, band vocalists, conductors, arrangers, artist aliases, uncredited performers
     Composer, show, and films credits, plus medley contents
    Illustrated, footnoted introduction covering the Blue Amberol's history and production details, with user's guide
  Artist and title indexes, plus corresponding Diamond Disc and wax Amberol cross-references

7 x 10" Hardcover • 448 total pages • Illustrated
Guaranteed new first-quality in original shrink-wrap, shipped directly from the publisher

  

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ALLAN SUTTON is the author of numerous books and articles on early sound recordings, including Race Records and the American Recording Industry, 1919–1945; American Record Labels and Companies: An Encyclopedia, 1891–1943; A Phonograph in Every Home; and Recording the ’Twenties. He is the recipient of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.

 
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