Greetings and Welcome,

This website features many early recordings from my personal collection of vintage discs and cylinders. The timeframe is from the earliest commercial recordings in 1889, well 1895 is my own confirmed oldest, up to the eve of the Big Band Era in 1933. All kinds of music and speech are represented, though I do favor some more than others. My favorite artists are Ted Lewis and Harry Lauder and you will find special sections for them below. The numbers quoted for each company are for each side uploaded, since some also produced single-sided discs and cylinders. This website is ever-growing so please check back often for "new" material! In addition, NBC Radio's coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack from 2:00PM on December 7, 1941 through the end of the next day on December 8th is available towards the bottom of the page. That's 61.5 hours total from the Red and Blue Networks! Also, if you want to listen without clicking every few minutes, Century-Old Sounds Radio offers the better sounding records in an automated format.

Thank you,

Kevin D. Davis
theoldcrank (at) centuryoldsounds (dot) com



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Ted Lewis
Sir Harry Lauder
1890-1971
1870-1950
Recording Career: 1917-1957
Recording Career: 1902-1935
241 Currently Posted
85 Currently Posted



Brown Wax
Cylinders
1889-1902
(8)
Gold Moulded
Cylinders
(Two-Minute)
1902-1912
(50)
Wax Amberol
Cylinders
(Four-Minute)
1908-1913
(25)
Blue Amberol
Cylinders
(Four-Minute)
1912-1929
(115)
Diamond Discs
1912-1929
(308)		50000s
51000s
52000s
80000s
82000s
82500s
83000s
Ethnic
Long-Playing Discs
1926-1927
(6)
Needle-Type Discs
1929
(4)





Berliner Records
1889-1900
(23)
7-Inch Discs
1900-1907
(17)
8-Inch Discs
1906-1909
(2)
10-Inch Black
Single-Sided Discs
1901-1913
(101)		1-3000s & Ethnic
4000s
5000s
10-Inch Black
Double-Sided Discs
1908-1925
(504)		16000s
17000s
18000s
19000s
Ethnic
10-Inch Black
Electrical Discs
1925-1958
(234)		19000s
20000s
21000s
22-24000s
V-40000s
Ethnic
12-Inch Black-Label Discs
1903-1942
(56)
Red Seal Discs
1903-1958
(95)		64-66000s (10", $1.00)
74000s (12", $1.50)
81000s (10", $2.00)
85000s (12", $3.00)
87000s (10", $2.00)
87500s (10", $3.00)
88000s (12", $3.00)
89000s (12", $4.00)
91000s (10", $2.50)
95000s (10" & 12", $5.00)
95200s (12", $5.00)
96000s (12", $6.00)
96200s (12", $7.00)
Double-Sided Acoustic (10" & 12")
Electrical (10" & 12")
Purple-Label Discs
1909-1920
(58)		60000s (10", $0.75)
70000s (12", $1.25)
Blue-Label Discs
1910-1926
(68)


I Pagliacci (album)
1929
(18)


Victor Long-Playing Records
1931-1939
(2)





Zon-O-Phone Records (U.S.A.)
1899-1912
(5)
Cylinders
1889-1908
(18)
7-Inch
Single-Sided Discs
1901-1905
(7)
10-Inch
Single-Sided Discs
1901-1923?
(16)
10-Inch
Double-Sided Discs
1908-1925
(193)
Ted Lewis
and His Band
on Columbia
1919-1933
(244)
10-Inch Electrical Discs
1925-1959
(108)
12-Inch Popular
and Classical Discs
1905-1946
(44)
Ethnic Discs
1908-ca.1950
(10)


Kreutzer Sonata (album)
1926
(10)


Carmen (album)
1928
(30)


Cavalleria Rusticana (album)
1930
(20)

Premium Scheme Labels Using Columbia Matrices
Standard Records
1905-1916
(14)
Harmony Records
1907-1916
1925-1932
(14)
Aretino Records
1907-1916
(2)
United Records
1910s
(12)
Consolidated Records
1916-1918
(2)

Other Columbia Labels
Climax Records
1901-1903
1909-1916
(2)
Marconi Records
1907-1908
(2)
Cort Records
ca. 1910
(2)
Little Wonder Records
1914-1923
(33)
Velvet Tone Records
1926-1932
(12)
Diva Records
1927-1930
(4)



Sears, Roebuck and Company Labels
Harvard Records
1905/6-1906
(5)
Oxford Records
1906-1916
(6)
Silvertone Records
1916-1928
1941-1942
(28)
Challenge Records
1926-1929
(12)

Patent Infringers
Leeds & Catlin Records
ca. 1899-1909
(6)
American Record Company
1904-1906
(2)
The Indestructible Phonograph Record Company / Federal Record Corporation
Indestructible
Cylinder Records
1907-1922
(11)
Federal Records
1919-1924
(2)
Hytone Records
1920-1923?
(2)

Pathe Freres (U.S.A.) Labels
Pathe Sapphire Records
1914-1922
(65)
Pathe Actuelle Records
1920-1930
(14)
Perfect Records
1922-1938
(24)
Apollo Records
ca. 1928
(2)



The Class of 1916
Brunswick Records
1916-
(143)
Vocalion Records
1916-1940
(62)
OKeh Records
1916-
(62)
Emerson Records
1916-1928
(43)



Second-Generation Pioneers
Gennett Records
1917-1934
(14)
Paramount Records
1917-1932
(22)
Black Swan Records
1921-1923
(6)
Autograph Records
1924-1926
(4)



Grey Gull Labels
Grey Gull Records
1919-1930
(8)
Radiex Records
1921-1931
(4)
Madison Records
1926-1931
(2)
Van Dyke Records
ca. 1929-1932
(2)



Cameo Labels
Cameo Records
1921-1930
(30)
Lincoln Records
1923-1930
(2)
Romeo Records
1926-1938
(2)



Plaza-ARC-NYRL Labels
Puritan Records
1917-1929
(2)
Banner Records
1921-1935
(16)
Regal Records
1921-1932
(14)
Broadway Records
1921-1935
(20)



Miscellaneous Labels
Lyric Records
1917-1921
(4)
Claxtonola Records
1918-1925
(2)
Arto Records
1919-1923
(2)
La Belle Records
ca. 1920-1923
(2)
Meteor Records
1920-1921
(2)
Olympic Records
1921, 1922-1923, 1924
(4)
Oriole Records
1923-1938
(4)
Champion Records
1925-1936
(2)
Everybodys Records
1925
(2)
Domino Records
1924-1930
1932-1933
(2)
Melodisc Records
1919-1922
(4)
Hit Of The Week Records
1930-1932
(8)



European Labels
Gramophone and Typewriter Records
1897-
(8)
Zonophone Records
1899-1931
(16)
Clarion Records
1905-1922?
(1)
The Imp Records
early 1910s
(2)
Edison Bell Winner Records
1909-1935
(2)



Test Pressings
(5)
Personal/Custom Recordings
(3)



Pearl Harbor Radio Transcriptions
NBC Red Network
NBC Blue Network
2:00PM December 7, 1941 - 11:59PM December 8, 1941
2:07PM December 7, 1941 - 11:45PM December 8, 1941



Bibliography


Founded: May 4, 2013

Last Update: September 21, 2023

Track Count (minus Transcriptions): 3,209



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