Available
July 10, 2008
7
x 10" cloth hardcover
472
pages
ISBN 978-0-9772735-8-4
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The
first installment in the Edison Discography Series by ARSC
Lifetime Achievement Award winner Raymond Wile. This volume covers
an especially important period in Edison history, with the conversion
to electrical recording, introduction of lateral-cut discs, and finally, Edison’s exit from the record business. Features
include:
- Full
discographic details from the Edison files, carefully correlated with the original catalogs, supplements, and records
- Coverage
of Diamond Discs, Needle-Type (lateral) discs, Sample Records,
Long-Playing 24- and 40-Minute Records, and dubbed Blue Amberol
cylinders
- Details
of Edison radio transcriptions, experimental recordings, and other
special-use recordings
- Day-by-day
account of record-related activities and experiments at Edison’s New York and West
Orange studios
- Illustrated
historical introduction, with a highly detailed account
of the record division’s final years of operation
- Title,
artist, accompanist, vocal chorus, and Blue Amberol indexes
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