J. H. Squire Celeste Octet made 40 recordings for Columbia in 1925-29. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Today is the 120th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Columbia issued a "descriptive" account shortly after. Discographihc details here, audio is on YouTube.

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Viola Turpeinen was a well-known American Finnish polka accordion player. She made 40 recordings for Victor and Columbia in 1928-38. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Country music singer Kelly Harrell recorded “I was born about ten thousand years ago” for OKeh on August 25, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below.

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Louis Lasky recorded 11 selections for Victor and Brunswick in 1935-42. His collaborators on these records included Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Debroy Somers Band made 28 recordings for Columbia in 1927-29, with several featuring vocalists Victor Carne, George Dewey Washington, or Tom Barratt. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Olavi Virta was a Finnish singer known in his time as the "King" of Finnish tango. He made 34 recordings for Columbia between August 1-14, 1939. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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František A. Pangrác recorded “Jsou, jsou na potoce” for Edison on January 8, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below.

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Fred McMullen recorded 16 selections for ARC in January of 1933. His collaborators on these records included Georgia Browns and the blues musician Curley Weaver. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Under conductor Willem Mengelberg, Concertgebouworkest made 50 recordings for Columbia in 1926-29. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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The data was originally published by Rainer Strömmer as "Suomalaisten 78-kierroksen äänilevyjen luettelo 1901-1961 (A catalog of Finnish 78 rpm records, 1901-1961)" Helsinki: Suomen äänitearkisto, 2012)

Thanks to the efforts of a trio of legendary discographers, Rainer Strömmer, Pekka Gronow, and Dick Spottswood, the data is now in DAHR.

Columbia 3000-F (Finnish) series: tinyurl.com/DAHRColumbia...

We will be featuring Finnish artists on Saturday over the next couple of months.

In 1930, Columbia introduced the Y matrix block for recordings intended for Finland. Prior to that, Columbia exported recordings by Finnish-Americans for sale in Finland. Data on all Finnish and Finnish-American Columbia discs is now online.

Columbia Y matrix block: tinyurl.com/DAHRColumbiaY

New York String Quartet, composed of Ottokar Cadek (violin), Jaroslav Siskovsky (violin), Ludwig Schwab (viola), and Bedrich Vaska (cello), recorded “Quartet in G minor : 1st movement” for Brunswick on May 28, 1925. Now in the Public Domain. Link below.

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Another 2,125 digitized recordings have been added to DAHR.

Highlights include:

Over 900 Vocalion discs digitized for our NEH grant
Over 500 Imperial discs from the Richard Reicheg collection
400 more test pressings from the Michael Brooks collection

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Black Bottom McPhail recorded 10 selections for Brunswick in 1932 and 1938. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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A. W. Ketèlbey's Concert Orchestra made 27 recordings for Columbia in 1927-29, with several featuring contralto Nellie Walker. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Six sides were recorded by baritone Lawrence Tibbett and pianist Stewart Wille on 1/4/1940 at Victor’s New York Studio 1. Includes works by Handel and Schubert, and also the English composer Arthur Sommervell’s song, “A kingdom by the sea." Session data below.

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Violinist Albert Spalding and pianist André Benoist recorded Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria” for Brunswick on April 9, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below.

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Digitized Test Pressings from the Michael Brooks Collection During the course of a many decades-long career with Columbia Records (now part of Sony Music) Michael Brooks produced numerous reissue projects and was the resident "vault whisperer" who was tasked with tracking down unissued material, alternate takes, and pristine source material from the Columbia and Sony vaults for reissue projects. From original metal parts in the Sony Archives, Brooks would have new test pressings made for evaluation. Michael's record collection and his personal collection of these test pressings was acquired by UCSB in 2019.

Over 1,600 test pressings from the Michael Brooks collection have been digitized and are now online. A list of the discs is here:

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Thousands more are coming. Stay tuned!

Session data is now available for 27 recordings that Herman Finck's Orchestra made for Columbia from 1923-29. See the link below.

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Orchester Isy Geiger made 12 recordings for Columbia in 1924-25 in Vienna, Austria. Session data is now available. See the link below.

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Music by Dimitri Tiomkin from David O. Selznick’s film Duel in the sun, performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler, was recorded at Boston’s Symphony Hall in July 1946. Released as set M/DM-1083. Session data at the link below.

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Baritone and composer Felipe Llera, Sr. recorded “Corridos” for Victor on August 31, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below.

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As requested by some of our users, below is a list of all of the digitized recordings from the Dust-to-Digital Foundation (excluding Joe Bussard's discs) currently accessible through DAHR.

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Sarah and her Milk Bull (Sarah is Sarah Jacobs, and her milk bull is presumably Walter Jacobs) cut the first to JAX matrixes on October 10, 1935. Neither were issued (sadly). Session data online.

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Session data is now available for 43 recordings that Wireless Symphony Orchestra, under the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and its director of music Percy Pitt, made for Columbia from 1924-28. See the link below.

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Viennese music of Johann Strauss, performed by the Vienna Choir Boys under Viktor Gomboz, was recorded at Victor’s New York Studio 2 in January 1939. Released as set M-561. Session data at the link below.

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Halfway House Dance Orchestra recorded “Maple leaf rag” for Columbia on September 25, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below.

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Over 2,800 newly digitized recordings have been added to DAHR in March. Many of these are from our project to document Plaza and ARC records, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. A complete list of new titles is below:

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