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Here is a very early etched label 9" Zonophone record from around 1900 featuring Victor Herbert's Band. The selection is the Poet and Peasant Overture. The Talking Machine is a Victor Type II .

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Here is Arthur Collins, the extremely talented and prolific singer of Ragtime Comedy songs during the turn of the last Century and beyond, singing Abraham Jefferson Washington Lee from 1906.

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Irving Berlin's "Me" is featured on a 1931 Velvet Tone Record, played by Ben Selvin and his Orchestra. The Victrola is a 1925 Victor Credenza, the top of the line "Flagship Model" of Victor's new Orthophonic Victrolas.

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Here is Silent Film Star Shirley Mason (1900-1979) talking about Christmas in Hollywood in 1923 on Special Issue Gennett Record. In this old news clipping from it 1923 it says: GREAT GENNETT SELLER. The Gennett Christmas Greeting records were among the biggest sellers in records in the week be- fore Christmas . The "Ten Gifts That Actually Speak Your Christmas Greetings " as the advertising so aptly announced, offered a choice that was considered a boon by a vast number of holiday shoppers ...

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Here is Billy Murray with Chorus singing "Everybody Two -Step" from 1912. The Phonograph is an Edison Model D Standard Phonograph capable of playing both 2 & 4 Cylinder records.

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Here is a Ragtime band number called "Slide Kelly Slide" Played by House's Orchestra on a Gennett record. Sonora Model Elite Phonograph

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From the Gold Diggers of 1937, here is Chick Bullock and Levee Loungers singing "With Plenty of Money & You" on a Melotone Record

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Here is Billy Murray singing "My Old New Jersey Home" on a 10" Victor Record from 1921. The Phonograph is a Sonora Elite Model

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Here is Bert Lown and his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra from 1931 and "Please don't talk about me when I'm Gone - Victor Credenza Model Victrola

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Here is the Original Dixieland Jazz Band playing "Tiger Rag" one step from 1918, on an original Victor Model 330 Victrola from 1922

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