Cylinders of the Month Archive

An archive of complete two-minute wax cylinder recordings featured in earlier Cylinder of the Month presentations.

Archive Sorted by Title

Key	Title	Category	Performed by	Circa
08/2001	The Absent-Minded Beggar	Standard poem	Harry Spencer	1900
03/2016	Aida - 4th act (O terra, addio)	Duet	Signora Morali & Dante del Papa	1899-1900
10/2006	Ain't Dat a Shame Medley	Dulcimer solo	William Moriarity	1908
11/2005	Alabama Troubadours - Because	Minstrels	Ancient City Quartette, S. H. Dudley, Billy Heins	1898-1899
05/2006	Alice, Where Art Thou	Cornet and trombone duet	Herbert L. Clarke & Leo A. Zimmerman	1905-1906
05/1997	All the Silver in the Silvery Moon	Comic song	Billy Williams	1911
11/2010	An Irishman's Perplexity	Specialty (comic duolouge)	Mrs. McCormick	1890-1891
11/1999	And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back	Orchestra	Banta's Orchestra	1895
10/2002	Ange si pur from La Favorite	Tenor	Agustarello Affre	1903
01/2012	Annie Laurie	Quartette	The Greater New York Quartette	1899
08/2011	The Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore	Whistling	John Yorke AtLee	1898
06/2012	Arbucklenian Polka	Cornet solo	John C. Martin	1901
07/2012	The Arkansas Traveler	Descriptive talk	Len Spencer & George Schweinfest	1902
02/2001	At the Circus	Descriptive selection	Edison Symphony Orchestra	1899
07/2010	At the Minstrel Show - No. 1	Minstrel series	Edison Minstrels	1906
12/2012	Auld Lang Syne	Quartette	Edison Male Quartette	1898
11/2002	Baby, Baby from Lady Slavey	Soprano	Minnie S. Emmett	1898
04/2010	La Basoche - Je suis aimé de la plus belle	Baritone	Gabriel Soulacroix	1900
11/2013	Belle of New York March	Band	Empire State Concert Band	1896-1897
07/2007	Benediction des Poignards from Les Huguenots	Bass-baritone	Jean-Francisque Delmas	1902
01/2004	The Bird on Nellie's Hat	Comic song	Helen Trix	1907
06/2010	Black Diamond Express March	Band	Edison Military Band	June 1905
08/2002	Blue Bell	Bells & xylophone	Albert Benzler & Frederick W. Hager	1904
11/2014	Blue Danube Waltz	Band	Edison Grand Concert Band	1898
05/2014	The Bobolink	Whistling	Joe Belmont	1903
08/2010	Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond	Soprano	Marie Narelle	1906
07/2014	Bonnie Brier Bush March	Orchestra	Edison Grand Symphony Orchestra	1899
08/2015	Brilliant Gallop	Xylophone solo	Charles P. Lowe	1900
01/2010	Bringing in 1906 - Auld Lang Syne	Talking & harmonica	Herr Dr. Professor & George Donahue	1905
07/1999	By the Light of the Silvery Moon	Sentimental song	Ada Jones	1910
05/2012	Le Caid - Air du tambour major	Bass	Mr. Bertram	1902-1903
09/2013	Carnival of Venice	Xylophone solo	Charles P. Lowe	1898
08/2005	The Captain's Song from Pinafore	Baritone	Harry Dearth	1907
01/2005	Carrie Nation in Kansas	Comic song	Steve Porter	1901
01/2022	Casey Courting His Girl	Talking	John Kaiser	1905
04/2002	Casey as Umpire at a Ball Game	Humorous talking	Russell Hunting	1898
07/1998	The Charge of Roosevelt's Rough Riders	Descriptive selection	Columbia Orchestra	1898
04/2001	Chopin's Funeral March	Band	Edison Concert Band	1906
12/2005	Christmas gift of a phonograph	Talking	Unknown	1899-1901
12/2007	The story of Cinderella	Talking	William Jefferson (Len Spencer)	1899
12/2015	Circus Gallop	Band (descriptive)	Sousa's Band	1903-1904
10/1999	Clancy's Prize Waltz Contest	Comic sketch	Len Spencer	1904
02/2004	Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming	Quartette	Knickerbocker Quartette	1908
05/2001	Consentida	Orchestra	Orquesta Tipica Lerdo	1904
10/2005	Continuous Performances	Comic song	S. H. Dudley	1899
08/2008	Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine	Duet	Ada Jones & Billy Murray	1908
03/1999	Dance on Friday Night	Descriptive selection	Peerless Orchestra	1900
12/2003	The Despatch Rider	Concertina solo	Alexander Prince	1910
03/2011	Dixie Blossoms	Xylophone solo	Thomas Mills	1907
06/2000	Dixie Medley	Banjo solo	Fred Van Epps	1908
09/2003	The Dixie Rube	Descriptive Selection	Edison Military Band	1906
08/2007	Don't Worry	Duet	Reed Miller & Reinald Werrenrath	1908
11/1997	Down at the Huskin' Bee	Rube duet	Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan	1909
01/2010	Down in Blossom Row Medley	Xylophone solo	Albert Benzler	1905
08/2013	Down in Jungle Town	Duet	Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan	1908
09/2012	Down in Sunshine Valley	March song	Manuel Romain	1911
06/2007	Down on the Old Plantation	Orchestra	Edison Symphony Orchestra	1904
12/2021	Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill	Song	Arthur Collins	1902
10/1998	El Capitan March Medley	Orchestra	Issler's Orchestra	1900
06/1999	The Esquimaux Dance	Clarinet solo	William Tuson	1892
12/2008	Estudiantina Waltz	Orchestra	Columbia Orchestra	1898
04/2004	Evening Star from Tannhauser	Cornet solo	David B. Dana	1895
01/1999	Everybody Works But Father	Song	Bob Roberts	1905
08/1999	Ev'ry Little Bit, Added to What You've Got, Makes Just a Little Bit More	Duet	Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan	1907
01/2001	Experimental Talking Clock	Talking	Frank Lambert	1878
06/1998	Five Minutes With the Minstrels	Band	Voss's First Regiment Band	1891
01/1998	Flirting on the Beach	Orchestra	Edison Symphony Orchestra	1904
04/2013	The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring	Trio	Original Lyric Trio	1898
11/2009	Selections from The Fortune Teller	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1899
01/2009	Fun in a Barber Shop	Banjo	Vess L. Ossman	1908
05/2003	"Genevieve" Waltz Medley	Ocarina solo	Eugene C. Rose	1906
05/2008	Georgia Minstrels	Minstrels	S. H. Dudley & Len Spencer	1904
04/2003	The Girl I Left Behind Me Medley	Fife & drum	U. S. Marine Fife & Drum Corps	1903
07/2000	Glorious Beer	Tenor solo	Dan W. Quinn	1899
06/2008	The Golden Wedding	Vaudeville	Ada Jones & Len Spencer	1905
05/2016	Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good-Bye	Song	William H. Thompson	1904
09/2007	Good-Bye My Lady Love	Tenor	Harry MacDonough	1904
10/2013	Good Old Songs	Quartette	Edison Male Quartette	1906
03/1997	The Grand March from Tannhauser	Band	Edison Grand Concert Band	1899
06/2013	Hail to the Spirit of Liberty	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1901
12/2002	Hallelujah Chorus	Band	Battery Band of New York	1894
09/1997	Heart Bowed Down	Clarinet solo	William Tuson	1904
01/2003	Hebrew Vaudeville - parody on Rip Van Winkle was a Lucky Man	Hebrew monologue	Julian Rose	1903
11/2007	Hickory Bill	Talking & banjo	Len Spencer & Fred Van Epps	1907
04/2014	House Cleaning Time	Vaudeville sketch	Ada Jones & Len Spencer	1908
09/1998	A Hundred Fathoms Deep	Baritone	Frank C. Stanley	1902-1904
07/2011	I Stood On the Bridge at Midnight	Baritone solo	J. W. Myers	1903
04/1997	I Used to Be Afraid to Go Home in the Dark	Tenor solo	Billy Murray	1909
02/2005	I'd Love to, But I Won't	Serio-comic song	Bessie Wynn	1910
06/2015	An Ideal Republic	Talking	William Jennings Bryan	1908
11/2004	If I Only Could Blot Out the Past	Baritone	Frank C. Stanley	1902
02/2007	I'll Love You Forever and Ever	Baritone	Steve Porter	1898
08/2012	I'm a-Dreaming of You	Duet	Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan	1902
04/1997	I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark	Tenor solo	Billy Murray	1908
08/2014	I'm Looking For the Man That Wrote "The Merry Widow Waltz	Comic song	Edward M. Favor	1908
03/2003	I'm Tired of Eating in the Restaurants	Baritone	Bert Williams	1906
04/1998	Immortality	Talking	William Jennings Bryan	1908
11/2000	The Imperial Minstrels - Dese Bones Shall Rise Again	Minstrels	Len Spencer & Steve Porter	1901
12/2013	The Imperial Minstrels - Mamie Reilly	Minstrels	Len Spencer & Steve Porter	1898
03/2012	The Imperial Minstrels - Old Folks at Home	Minstrels	Roger Harding & Steve Porter	1899
02/2016	The Imperial Minstrels - Upon the Golden Shore	Minstrels	Len Spencer, Steve Porter & Dan W. Quinn	1899
05/2004	In My Merry Oldsmobile	Duet	Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan	1905
06/2011	In Old Alabama	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1903
07/2003	In the Good Old Summer Time	Song	William Redmond	1902
02/1999	In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree	Male quartette	Columbia Quartette	1904-1906
09/2001	In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree (Medley)	Banjo solo	G. W. Kennedy	1906
05/2002	In Zanzibar	Baritone solo	J. W. Myers	1904
03/2004	Ingersoll at the Tomb of Napoleon	Talking	Len Spencer	1902
03/2005	Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana	Vocal violin imitation	Edith Helena	1907
01/2000	It Don't Seem Like the Same Old Smile	Song	George J. Gaskin	1897
04/2000	Jerusalem Mournin'	Quartette	Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette	1910
01/2013	Jigs and Reels	Violin solo	Charles D'Almaine	1908
04/2009	Jingles, Jokes and Rhymes	Comic song	Edward M. Favor	1906
11/2021	Jolly Fellows Waltz	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1899
12/1997	Joy to the World	Band	Edison Concert Band	1906
01/2015	Jubilee Minstrels	Minstrels	Edison Minstrels	1908
03/2000	Just Like Bein' at Hame	Song	Harry Lauder	1911
08/2004	Just One Girl	Baritone	J. W. Myers	1899
03/2009	King Cotton March	Band	Baldwin's Cadet Band	1896
10/1997	Lanciers with Figures Called	Orchestra	Issler's Popular Orchestra	1893-1894
03/2015	L'Africaine - Air de Vasco de Gama ["O Paradis"]	Tenor	Albert Vaguet	1902
11/1998	Lasca	Talking	Edgar L. Davenport	1905
01/2008	The Laughing Song	Comic song	George W. Johnson	1898
10/2015	A Lemon in the Garden of Love	Comic song	Billy Murray	1907
05/2015	Let Me Crown You Queen of May with Orange Blossoms	Tenor	Manuel Romain	1908
02/1997	Liberty Bell March	Band	Edison Concert Band	1897
07/2016	The Lime-Kiln Club	Descriptive selection	Columbia Orchestra	1899
07/2013	Lincoln's Speech at Gettysburg	Talking	Len Spencer	1904
10/2003	(The Magic Flute) La Flute Enchantée	Duet	Jane Mérey & Albert Piccaluga	1903-1905
04/2007	Make a Fuss Over Me	Banjo trio	Ossman Banjo Trio	1905
04/2011	Mandy and Her Man	Vaudeville sketch	Ada Jones & Len Spencer	1906
02/2009	Mariar	Contralto	Clarice Vance	1905
09/2008	(The Marriage of Jeanette) Les Noces de Jeannette - Enfin, me voilà seul	Bass	Paul Aumonier	1904
10/2008	Married Life	Comic song	Dan W. Quinn	1895
10/2004	La Mattchiche	Orchestra	Pathé Frères Orchestre	1905-1906
09/2002	McGinty at the Living Pictures	Comic song	Edward M. Favor	1906
09/1999	La Media Noche	Mexican dance	United States Marine Band	1891
01/2006	The Melon Patch Schottisch	Band	23rd Regiment Band of New York	1894-1896
05/2011	Mireille - Valse	Soprano	Aline Vallandri	1906
03/2006	Miserere from "Trovatore"	Duet	Marie Dietrich & Carl Jorn	1907
08/2000	Mrs. McCloud's Reel	Bagpipe solo	James C. McAuliffe	1899
04/2016	Mr. Thomas Cat	Band	The Empire State Band	1900-1901
11/2003	The Mocking Bird	Whistling solo	Billy Golden	1897
09/2009	Monarch Polka	Trombone solo	Leo Zimmerman	1900-1901
12/2011	Monastery Bells	Bells & chimes duet	Albert Benzler, Henry Nesbit, and the Edison Military Band	1905
01/2016	The Mosquito Parade	Banjo duet	Vess L. Ossman & Bill Farmer	1901
05/2010	Mother's Twilight Song	Song	Edward M. Favor	1894
06/2009	The Musical Moke	Vaudeville specialty	Len Spencer	1901
07/2008	My Creole Sue	Quartette	Edison Male Quartette	1899
09/2015	My Little Irish Queen	Orchestra	Issler's Orchestra	1897
08/2016	My Old New Hampshire Home	Tenor	J. W. Myers	1900
04/2006	Near It - Very Near It	Comic song	Edward M. Favor	1894-1895
01/1998	Nearer My God to Thee	Band	Edison Concert Band	1904
03/2002	The Night Alarm	Orchestra (descriptive)	The Polyphone Symphony Orchestra	1898-1899
09/2011	The Nightingale and the Frog	Piccolo solo	Edison Symphony Orchestra	1902
06/2005	The Ninety and Nine	Baritone	Ira D. Sankey	1898
04/1999	The Ninety and Nine	Baritone	Frank C. Stanley	1902-1904
05/1998	Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares	Counter-tenor	Will Oakland	1909
05/2000	(Chopin) Nocturne	Piano solo	Joseph Pizzarello	1898
08/1997	Nothing Like That In Our Family	Comic song	Will F. Denny	1906
12/1998	O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fidelis)	Quartette	Columbia Quartette	1904
10/2007	Oh, Promise Me	Cornet solo	Bohumir Kryl	1905
12/2014	Oh, Promise Me	Trombone solo	Nicholas Scholl	1898
11/2011	The Old Brigade	Duet	S. H. Dudley & Harry MacDonough	1899
10/2012	Old Faithful March	Band	Edison Military Band	1907
11/2015	Old Time Religion	Quartette	Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette	1910
02/2012	Selections from Olivette	Band	Edison Grand Concert Band	1898
10/2000	Our Victorious Nation March	Band	New York Military Band	1909
01/2002	Our Whistling Servant Girl	Song with whistling chorus	John Yorke AtLee	1900
09/2016	Over the Waves (Sobre las Olas)	Spanish waltz	United States Marine Band	1892
06/2002	Overture, Poet and Peasant	Band	Baldwin's Cadet Band	1895
03/2013	Paddy on the Turnpike	Bagpipe solo	James C. McAuliffe	1903
07/2005	Pat O'Brien's Automobile	Street scene	Steve Porter	1908
05/2013	Peaches and Cream	Vaudeville sketch	Ada Jones & Len Spencer	1906
06/2001	Petite Mignon	Oboe solo	Caesar Addimando	1908
10/2023	Phroso Waltz	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1898-1899
01/2007	Pilgrim's Chorus from Tannhauser	Band	Gilmore's Band	1901
11/2008	Please, Mr. Conductor, Don't Put Me Off the Train	Tenor solo	Byron G. Harlan	1903
07/2015	The Professor and the Musical Tramp	Vaudeville sketch	Len Spencer & Parke Hunter	1905
02/2002	Prologo from Pagliacci	Baritone solo in Italian	Antonio Scotti	1905-1906
02/1998	Pucker Up Your Lips, Miss Lindy	Tenor duet	Albert C. Campbell & Irving Gillette	1912
01/2011	Ragtime Medley	Banjo solo	Vess L. Ossman	1900
02/2011	Red Wing	Tenor solo	Frederick H. Potter	1907
06/1997	Reuben Rag	Comic song	Sophie Tucker	1910
12/2004	Ring Out the Bells for Christmas	Band	Edison Concert Band	1907
04/2005	Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep	Male quartette	Original Bison City Quartette	1892-1894
09/2004	Rudolph and Rosie at the Roller Rink	Skating scene	Ada Jones & Len Spencer	1907
08/2003	Saving Them All for Mary	Topical song with banjo	Al Reeves	1891-1893
04/2015	Scarecrow Dance	Orchestra	Edison Symphony Orchestra	1903
09/2006	Scene at a Dog Fight	Descriptive selection ("Tough series")	Len Spencer	1900
03/2008	Schubert's Serenade	Violin solo	Charles D'Almaine	1908
08/2009	Schultz Gets a Letter from the Klondike	Funny talk	Frank Kennedy	1898-1899
10/2001	Schwanlied aus Lohengrin	Song	Ernst Kraus	1904
08/2006	Second Connecticut March	Band	Edison Concert Band	1899
02/2008	Selection from The Silver Slipper	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1903
12/2000	The Sleigh Ride Party	Descriptive selection	The Greater New York Quartette	1898
11/1996	Smoky Mokes	Orchestra	Peerless Orchestra	1904
12/1996	Southern Smiles Two-step	Band	Edison Military Band	1904
07/2009	Stars and Stripes Forever March	Band	71st Regiment Band	1897-1898
07/1997	Stars and Stripes Forever March	Banjo solo	Ruby Brooks	1902
07/2002	Stars and Stripes Forever March	Band	Sousa's Band	1901
12/2009	Sterling Castle and Harvest Home	Violin solo	William Craig	1909
12/2006	Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht	Baritone	Hans Hoffman	1902
12/2010	Stop That Knocking at the Door	Quartette	Edison Male Quartette	1906
01/1997	Street Piano Medley	Street scene	August Molinari	1908
08/1998	Take Me Out to the Ball Game	Waltz song	Edward Meeker	1908
05/1999	Take Your Time, Gentlemen	Song	Press Eldridge	1892
11/2012	Talmage on "Infidelity"	Recitation	William F. Hooley	1898-1899
10/2010	Tarantella from The Bride Elect	Orchestra	Edison Grand Symphony Orchestra	1898
07/2004	The Teddy Bears' Picnic	Orchestra	Edison Symphony Orchestra	1908
06/2004	Telegraphic radio aircheck	Telegraphic code	Unknown	1910
03/2018	Tell Me With Your Eyes Medley	Bells	Albert Benzler	1905
07/2001	That Beautiful Rag	Duet	Stella Mayhew & Billie Taylor	1910
10/2011	That's Gratitude	Song	Bob Roberts	1907
02/2000	The Third Verse of Mary and John	Sentimental ballad	Will White	1890-1891
12/2019	Those dirty dogs: Men with their Nicotine, Tobacco and Alcohol	Speech	John Alexander Dowie	1901
03/2007	Three Minutes With the Minstrels	Minstrels	S. H. Dudley & Arthur Collins	1899
02/2015	Tipperary	Irish March Song	Stella Tobin	1908
11/2006	Toreador Song from Carmen	Baritono	Antonio Vargas	1903
01/2014	Tosca - Le ciel luisait d'etoiles	Tenor	Lucien Muratore	1903
09/2000	Transformation Scene from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Talking with orchestra accompaniment	Len Spencer	1905
02/2023	Uncle Josh at the Dentist's	Talking	Cal Stewart & Len Spencer	1909
03/2014	Uncle Josh at the Weather Bureau	Funny talk	Cal Stewart	1898
03/2010	Uncle Josh in Society	Funny talk	Cal Stewart	1899
03/1998	Uncle Josh's Letter From Home	Talking	Cal Stewart	1909
11/2001	Uncle Remus	Characteristic march	American Symphony Orchestra	1909
09/2010	Under the Anheuser Bush	Waltz song	Billy Murray	1904
12/1999	Unlawful Trusts	Talking	William H. Taft	1908
04/2008	U. S. Army Lancers, 1st Figure	Band	Edison Military Band	1906
01/2017	Vaudeville Specialty Introducing Mr. Dan W. Quinn	Vaudeville series (Irish comedy talk)	Dan W. Quinn	1900-1901
03/2001	Waiting for a Certain Girl	Song and chorus	Billy Murray	1907
12/2020	Washington Post March	Band	Edison Military Band	1904
06/2003	(Mendelssohn's) Wedding March	Band	Edison Concert Band	1904
09/2014	The Wedding of the Reuben and the Maid	Duet	Arthur Collins & Joseph Natus	1901
02/2003	What Might Have Been	Sentimental song	Manuel Romain	1909
12/2001	When the Birds Go North Again	Song	Silas Leachman	1900
06/2014	When the Evening Breeze is Sighing Home, Sweet Home	Quartette	Edison Male Quartette	1903
02/2013	When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget	Baritone	Frank C. Stanley	1907
10/2009	Whistling Rufus	Banjo solo	Vess L. Ossman	1899
06/2016	The White Man's Burden	Recitation	B. Russell Throckmorton	1899
07/2006	Whoa, Bill!	Duet	Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan	1904
04/2012	Wild Cherry	Band	New York Military Band	1909
05/2005	World's fair souvenir records	Talking	Unknown fair-goers	1904-1905
02/2014	Yankee Patrol	Band	Columbia Band	1905
09/2005	Yankiana Rag	Orchestra	American Symphony Orchestra	1909
02/2006	Yes, Sweetest of Words to Me	Tenor	Roger Harding	1896-1897
05/2007	You Can't Think of Everything	Comic song	William F. Denny	1893-1894
05/2009	You're as Welcome as the Flowers in May	Duet	Byron G. Harlan & Frank C. Stanley	1904

See also the archive sorted by performer.