Performer information from Two-minute brown wax and XP cylinder records of the Columbia Phonograph Company / Kenneth M. Lorenz, 1981.
Note:
Original recording released between 1896 and 1900 with same cylinder number.
Collection Information:
Todd collection.
Personal Name:
Spencer, Len, 1867-1914.
Personal Name:
Schweinfest, George, ca. 1862-1949.
Subject:
Vaudeville.
Original Item Location:
Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 4902
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Annie, my own - Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra. (Edison Blue Amberol: 4217), Edison Record: 7564), [1921].
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.