Excerpted from The Victor Discography, by ARCS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner John Bolig. Includes full details from the original Victor Talking Machine Company and Gramophone Company files. The following catalog series are now online, and other series will be posted in the coming months. (Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader is required):

VICTOR 16000 SERIES: Complete Discography

VICTOR 18000 SERIES: Complete Discography

VICTOR 20000 & 21000 SERIES: Complete Discography

THE BLUEBIRD SESSIONS (RCA, 1940–41): Illustrated History and Discography
  

EDISON RECORDS

Compiled by Allan Sutton using the original Edison documentation from the Edison National Historic Site, correlated with data from Edison expert Ray Wile. (Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader is required.)

DUBBED EDISON BLUE AMBEROLS: Complete Cylinderography

EDISON ELECTRICAL RECORDINGS (1928–29): Complete Discography and Cylinderography

Hear Billy Murray with B.A. Rolfe on a 1929 Edison Hour Broadcast
  

Details of the rarest, and possibly the earliest, of Murray's regular commercial releases.

LAMBERT TWO-MINUTE CYLINDERS (c. 1903): Complete Cylinderography
  

Covering all 7", 10" and 10¾" issues on American Record Company, American Odeon Record, Busy Bee, Mills "Perfeg" Record, Peerless, and related labels.

AMERICAN RECORD CO. (1904–07): Discographic Checklist  • Update in progress

ZON-O-PHONE RECORDS

Covering issues on American Zonophone and derivative labels, including Aretino, Busy Bee, Landay Bros., and Oxford.

ZONOPHONE DISCOGRAPHIC CHECKLIST  • Updated 7-22-2011 - Detailed discography in development

VICTOR STUDIO Z- SERIES ZONOPHONE MASTERS (Victor File Data) • In development
  

INTERNATIONAL RECORD COMPANY

Covers Excelsior and International Record labels, plus IRC's many client brands (Buckeye, Clear Tone, Clico, Faultless, Kalamazoo, Mozart, Siegel Cooper, Vim, and many others) and unusual generic labels.  

THE INTERNATIONAL RECORD CO. (1905–07): Discographic Checklist
  

LEEDS & CATLIN RECORDS

Covers Leeds Records and its successor label, Imperial — plus the many associated Leeds brands, including Aretino, Busy Bee, Concert, Eagle, Imperial, Nassau, Oxford, Peerless, Royal, Silver Star, and Sun.

LEEDS & CATLIN RECORDINGS (1904–09): Discographic Checklist
  

FREELANCE-PERIOD ISSUES (1919–1920)

Annotated checklist of Murray’s Columbia and minor-label records made during his postwar freelance period, with artist aliases unmasked. Includes Aeolian-Vocalion, Arto, Canadian HMV, Emerson, Gennett, Grey Gull, Lyric, Okeh, Paramount, Path?, and many others. Illustrated.

THE 1919–20 FREELANCE RECORDINGS: Discographic Checklist
  

Details of Murray's elusive Depression-era duets and dance-band vocals on Crown and its client labels.

CROWN RECORDS (1930–31): Complete Discography
  

BRUNSWICK RECORDS

Details of Murray's 1935 children's record session with actor Bradley Barker (the original "roar" of the M-G-M Lion), compiled from the Brunswick-ARC files.

THE BRUNSWICK CHILDREN’S RECORDS (1935): Illustrated History and Discography
  

BLUEBIRD RECORDS

Complete details of Murray's RCA-Bluebird recordings, compiled from the original RCA files, and supplemented by the Jimmy Martindale?Jim Walsh correspondence from the Library of Congress. Includes John Bolig's discovery of the "missing" file data for Murray's first two Bluebird sessions — which was published here for the first time — and an explanation of the 1 / 1A take numbers.

THE BLUEBIRD SESSIONS (RCA, 1940–41): Illustrated History and Discography

THE FINAL RECORD: BEACON (1943)

Murray's last records were made for veteran producer Joe Davis' Beacon label during the American Federation of Musicians' strike, and originally were sold for jukebox use. A New York Times critic found them "not funny."

THE JOE DAVIS SESSION (1943): Illustrated History and Discography

BILLY MURRAY Articles & Photos

	BILLY MURRAY RECORDS: A COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNUSUAL LABELS (1903 – 1930) An annotated record-label gallery exhibiting Murray's scarcest and most interesting cylinder and 78-rpm disc records (Courtesy of Dick Carty, Paulette Gaines, Kurt Nauck, Allan Sutton, and others).
	A BILLY MURRAY ICONOGRAPHY (1900 – 1953) A rotating exhibit devoted to rare Murray photographs, advertising, and other ephemera from the collections of Dick Carty, John Bolig, Allan Sutton, the late Jim Walsh, and others.
	PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN DECLINE Murray's Comeback and Final Years, from the Jimmy Martindale Letters (1938–1954) Jimmy Martindale, a prominent New York legal publisher, championed Murray's comeback attempts on records and in radio. These candid excerpts from Martindale's letters to columnist Jim Walsh document Murray's personal and professional activities from 1938 until his death in 1954.
BILLY MURRAY'S VICTOR RECORDING CONTRACTS: THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL TEXTS Disclosed to the public for the first time here, these are the previously restricted texts of Murray's 1909, 1919, and 1920 Victor Talking Machine Co. contracts, complete and unedited. You will also find previously unpublished amendments, plus contract riders that restricted Murray’s touring and radio broadcasting activities.            BILLY MURRAY'S RECORDING CONTRACTS: A CASE STUDY Murray's recording agreements — particularly his Victor Talking Machine Company contracts, the details of which are made public here for the first time — provide a deeper understanding of both his recording career and the legal workings of the early American recording industry.
	BILLY MURRAY IN THE MOVIES, PART 1: The 1928 (1929 Release) M-G-M Shorts The story of Murray's two MGM single-reel films with the Eight Popular Victor Artists, and the synchronized soundtrack discs that accompanied them. Includes excerpts from the original script and a photo of the rare soundtrack disc.
	THE EIGHT POPULAR VICTOR ARTISTS’ “ MINIATURE CONCERT” The Earliest Issued Victor Electrical Recording The Victor Talking Machine Co. had been experimenting with electrical recording since 1922, but to no avail until February 26, 1925. On that day, a test of acoustic vs. electric systems produced the first Victor electrical recordings to be accepted for release, featuring Billy Murray, Henry Burr, and other members of the Eight Popular Victor Artists troupe.
	PHOTO FEATURE — BILLY MURRAY AT HOME: The G. G. Bain News Service Photographs, 1919–20 Rare photographs of Billy Murray as a gardener, golfer, and handyman at his Long Island home, in newly restored scans of the original photographs from the Library of Congress.
"BILLY MURRAY, OLD-TIMER" — Bob Dumm's 1927 Interview Murray recounts his earliest days in show business and the recording studios in these extracts from his Farm and Fireside interview.          "MY TWIN — THE PHONOGRAPH" — Murray's 1917 Edison Memoir Murray's short memoir in the Edison Phonograph Monthly offers his colorful — if not necessarily accurate — account of early experiences on the stage and in the recording studios.      The BILLY MURRAY PROJECT SM is sponsored by MAINSPRING PRESS, the award-winning publisher of books, CDs, and free online resources for collectors of historic sound recordings.   Site ©2011 by MAINSPRING PRESS, LLC. Content © 2011, or as noted. All rights are reserved. Except as noted, material on this site may not be reproduced or distributed without the prior written consent of the publisher. Unauthorized use, whether or not for monetary gain, will be addressed under the DMCA and applicable copyright laws, and may result in significant civil and/or criminal penalties. Please e-mail the publisher for reproduction or licensing information. MAINSPRING PRESS is a registered trademark of MAINSPRING PRESS LLC, a Delaware company.