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Specialized Information
- Introduction to Talking Machine World, the RARE Phonograph Trade Journal
- A History of Portable Talking Machines -- Those Suitcase Models Perfect for Picnics
- Victor In The West: The Oakland Pressing Plant -- By William J. Nicolson
- The life and Writing Career of Jim Walsh
- The Cheney Talking Machine -- By R. J Wakeman
- Early Jazz--or "Jass"--and Tin Pan Alley, With Lyrics to the First Record to Refer to the New Music
- How Late Did Columbia Make Brown Wax Cylinders?
- Brunswick Records: The Early Years -- By R. J Wakeman
- Enrico Caruso's Weakest Recordings -- By Charles Arnhold
- Phonograph Monthly Review: A Forgotten Publication?
- A Proposal Made in 1911 to Consolidate Edison and Columbia
- Buying Rare Race 78s in the South -- By Gayle Dean Wardlow
- Eldridge R. Johnson's First Numbered Record: The First "Victor" Record
- Leon Douglass: Inventor and Victor's First Vice-President
- The Kansas City Talking Machine Company And Its "Original" Recordings of 1898
- BOOK REVIEW of Edward Berlin's King of Ragtime -- Scott Joplin and His Era
Entries from "Another Book About Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925: The Unpublished Entries"
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- Barbershop Quartets--Were They On Old 78s?
- Nora Bayes -- Vaudeville Favorite
- Albert Benzler & U-S Everlasting Cylinders
- Zez Confrey
- Criterion Quartet (Strand Quartet)
- Frank Crumit
- Vernon Dalhart -- By Jack Palmer
- Clyde Doerr -- Saxophone Pioneer
- Minnie Emmett -- By Quentin Riggs
- Gene Greene
- Georgians -- Columbia Jazz Ensemble
- Charles Harrison--Tenor
- Charles Hart
- Morton Harvey
- Art Hickman and His Orchestra -- By Bruce Vermazen
- William F. Hooley--Bass Singer Important to Quartets
- May Irwin
- Dan W. Quinn
- Bob Roberts -- Billy Murray's Rival
- Homer Rodeheaver, Singer of Hymns--by Robert Olson
- Harry Tally
- Fred Van Eps -- Banjoist
- Wolverines -- With Bix Beiderbecke
Articles by Jas Obrecht
- The King Of Ragtime Guitar: Blind Blake & His Piano-Sounding Guitar
- George W. Johnson: African-American Recording Pioneer
- Polk Miller's Old South Quartette
Sample Entries from Tim's "Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925"
- Intro to Tim Gracyk's book, Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925
- American Quartet--With Billy Murray
- Franklyn Baur, Tenor of the 1920s
- Henry Burr
- Arthur Collins--Singer of "The Preacher and the Bear"
- Columbia Quartet
- Edward M. Favor
- Carl Fenton, Brunswick Musical Director
- Frank Ferera, Hawaiian Guitar Pioneer
- Arthur Fields
- Happiness Boys: Billy Jones and Ernest Hare
- Ada Jones (1 June 1873 - 22 May 1922)
- Richard Jose: The Great American Countertenor
- Irving Kaufman
- Sam Lanin
- Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Joseph C. Smith
- Van and Schenck
- Paul Whiteman (28 March 1890 - 29 December 1967)
