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Will it ever be the same again - Reese Jones [i.e. Billy Jones]. (Edison Blue Amberol: 4051), Edison Record: 7167), [1920].
Cylinders are acoustic recordings--performers sang or played into a recording horn, not a microphone. Microphones were not in widespread use until 1924 with the advent of electrical recording.