[78-L] Was there a Volume Two?

[Thomas Stern]

did a little searching and found this article:

Billboard May 25, 1968
MARTINELLI,  ANSELMI ON
EDISON FOUNDATION LP's
  SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Tenors Giovanni Martinelli and Giuseppe
Anselmi are featured in the first of a series of albums being issued
by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation.  The stereo LP's listing for
$5 each, are being transferred from Edison cylinders with the co-op-
eration of the Edison National Historic Site of West Orange, N.J.
under the terms of a grant to Syracuse University from the Charles
and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial.
  In addition to "An Edison Memorabilia: Vol.1" which features
the two tenors, a second volume presents ragtime from the Edison
blue  Amberol cylinders of 1912 and 1913.
  Prof. Walter Welch, director of the foundation's re-recording
laboratory at Syracuse University, explained, "By using stereo disk-
cutting techniques it is possible to free the artists of the acoustical
and electrical recording era from the effects of singing into a
recording horn and early microphone".


there was ALSO a MARK 56  Edison Memorabilia Vol.1 & 2.
issued in 1976, with further collections appearing into the 80's.

The Red/Blue edged albums were the Edison Foundation issues,
the Mark56 had an image of Edison, and medalion with tricolor ribbon.

Hope that clarifies and distinguishes these releases.

Best wishes, Thomas.


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I recall a RED cover and a BLUE cover from Mark 56 iirc, as well
as a series of additional albums drawn from recordings
at the Ford Plantation near Detroit.  The transfers on these latter
LPs were abysmal.  Some were reissued in an inexpensive box set
from Murray Hill or similar company (sold mostly through bookstores
and mail order).

The Edison Foundation or related organizations issued other albums.

An Edison memorabilia. Vol. 2, Ragtime from the Edison blue amberol
cylinders
Publisher: Anaheim, California : Mark 56 727, 1976.
Those ragtime melodies / Hodgkins (Peerless Quartet) -- When the midnight
choo-choo leaves for Alabam' / Berlin (Collin's & Harlon) -- The hungarian
rag / Lengberg (New York Military Bands) -- You made me love you / McCarthy,
Monaco (Anna Chandler, soprano) -- Alexander's ragtime band / Berlin (Fred
Van Eps, banjo) -- The international rag / Berlin (Billy Murray, tenor) --
Egyptian echoes / adpt. Frank Black (The Aristocrats) -- Five pennies / Red
Nichols (Phil Napolean & his orchestra) -- Get out and get under the moon /
Tobias (Golden Gate Orchestra) -- You'll do it someday / Al Wrubel (Yale
Collegians) -- Chinese jumble (Californian Queensland) -- Moonlit waters /
Cliff Friend ; Nacio Brown (Oresto & His Queensland Orchestra).


An Edison memorabilia 1888-1920.
Author: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation.
No. 1. Gems from the Edison diamond amberols. Classical gems from the Edison
discs.--No. 2. Ragtime from the Edison blue amberol cylinders. Dance music
from the Edison discs of the Twenties

If anyone is compiling a comprehensive listing of these releases, I hope
you will post it here.  Thanks!
Best wishes, Thomas.

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Red cover, right? I can't find my copy but I don't recall the dual-channel
notice. Didn't the (proposed?) second volume appear on Mark 56 along with
this
one (in lousy sound) or am I thinking of something else?

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> I finally got a mint condition copy of the 12-inch LP "An Edison
> Memorabilia of Musical Performances 1888-1929, Album 1 of a Series
> Produced by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation", RCA Victor matrix
> numbers UR4S 1029 and 1030.  Although the cover cites 1888, the earliest
> recording is from 1910.  Were there ever any other volumes?  I seem to
> recall that this was the only one.  Side One was "Gems from the Edison
> Diamond Amberols" and Side Two was "Classical Gems From the Edison
> Discs".  I haven't played it yet, but it is noted as "Dual Track to be
> played only on stereo equipment" having been made with "a revolutionary
> re-recording process invented by the Edison Foundations's director of
> Re-recording, Professor Walter L. Welch".
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
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