Newest uploads! Auto-78-twitter . Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P. . 78s were mostly made from shellac, i.e., beetle resin, and were the brittle predecessors to the LP (microgroove) era. @great78project for uploads as they happen. Turntable used for 78rpm digitization of four simultaneous recordings with different needles. The...
Topics: 78rpm, digitization
Source: 78
The Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats, including wax cylinders, 78 rpms, and LPs. The recordings span many genres, including classical, pop, rock, jazz, and opera – from 78s produced in the early 1900s to LPs from the 1980s. These recordings have never been circulated and were in storage for several decades, uncataloged and inaccessible to the public. By collaborating with the Internet Archive,...
Donation of Leif Druedahl's 78'er Klubben 78's. Collected primarily in Denmark and throughout Scandinavia. 102 boxes. Includes 78's, photographic negatives, and 5 boxes of letterpress printed cardboard record sleeves. Danish, German, and English popular and classical music. Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/leifdruedahl2018
78rpm shellac discs donated from the Batavia Public Library Thorpe Collection to the Archive of Contemporary Music and digitized by George Blood, LP for the Internet Archive. Turntable used for 78rpm digitization of four simultaneous recordings with different needles. https://archive.org/details/BTB-10202016 contains details of the physical materials.
Topics: 78rpm, thorpe, ARC, Archive of Contemporary Music
Source: 78
78rpm shellac discs donated from Daniel McNeil to the Archive of Contemporary Music and digitized by George Blood, LP for the Internet Archive. The collection of 22,359 ten and twelve inch seventy-eights is one of the first that ARC worked with from beginning to end, and what a pleasure. Rare for us the discs were all carefully arranged on shelves by label, and then by manufacturer number. Even better, the weeks we spent packing up meant cake and coffee everyday at 4. Here’s Mr. McNeil’s...
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/Tercat78RPMRecordCollection
Donation of 78rpm records from Saul Nowitz via arcmusic Donation item at: https://archive.org/details/saul-nowitz-records Internet tracking information: https://webarchive.jira.com/browse/COL-614 The Saul Nowitz Collection This collection consist of 23,124 seventy-eight rpm shellac discs and 1200 sixteen-inch transcription discs, V-discs and one-of-a-kind acetates collected by Saul Nowitz (1938 -2018). From his early years Saul was a record enthusiast, sneaking...
The collection contains 41,888 78s (10" and 12"), LPs, and 45's that encompass a broad selection of classical, ethnic, and popular music. Below are descriptions of some items within the collection: Classical repertoire, vernacular traditions, limited editions in boxed sets, jazz on early LP labels, and rare issues of vocal selections or operas on European labels. Classical recordings; jazz, dance, and popular music discs; movie soundtracks and original cast sound recordings....
KUSF is the University of San Francisco’s radio station in San Francisco, California. This non-commercial student-run station originally broadcast on-air from 1963-1977 as an AM station, and from 1977-2011 on the FM dial. This free-form and freewheeling college station was celebrated both nationally and internationally for its innovative music programming. In 2012 the University of San Francisco donated a large portion of the KUSF collection of 78’s and LP’s to the Internet Archive. Many...
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/minotstateuniversityrecordcollection
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/CharlesRoberts78s
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/sparkmuseumofelectricalinventionrecordcollection
This 78rpm collection was made by Joseph Almeida who began collecting in the 1990s. The material is mostly popular music, i.e. band dance music and vocal music. The focus is on early electrical recordings 1925-1935 but the collection contains many acoustical recordings in the collection dating back to 1901. Mr. Almeida said, "I focused on the big three labels (Brunswick, Victor and Columbia ) but there are plenty of budget label recordings as well such as Romeo, Okeh, Vocalion,...
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/jeffrey_barent_2018
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/KurtNauck78RPMRecords03152019
The Thomas Kemp Collection is a collection of 78rpm records generously donated by Thomas H. Kemp. Mr. Kemp has been collecting many forms of music and their players in Washington DC over the past 50 years. This collection includes several boxes of 78rpm records as well as 80rpm Edison records. Tom's collection contains many rare examples of early acoustic recordings pressed on 78rpm shellac records. It even includes records recorded in other languages that would have been difficult to find in...
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/alexsaify78s
This is a unique group of more than 4000 LPs and 78rpm discs, the vast majority pressed in Latin America or the Caribbean. Of special interest are the hundreds of Cuban recordings and more than a thousand Tango discs from Argentina. Of note is the pristine condition of most of the recordings and the many hand-decorated covers that the donor made for 78rpm discs that were originally issued in generic corporate sleeves. Mr. Chomowicz, who inherited the recordings from a collector friend, and out...
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Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/Stires2018
About the donor and collection: Clark Johnsen (né Roger Clark Johnsen) started working with audio equipment and listening to classical music in high school. His love of classical music grew over the decades as did his interest in accurate sound reproduction. His degree in Applied Mathematics (Harvard College ’63) helped him understand the technical aspects of sound propagation. He started building his own audio equipment in high school. He delved into various aspects of sound reproduction...
Growing up in the 1930's and 40's in New York City, how could Walter Seldon not be a Jazz lover? It was the soundtrack of the city, from Blues to Bebop and beyond. In clubs, at concerts, and on the radio, he listened...and he collected as much of that great music as he could. Though he'd missed the Dixieland Golden Age of 1920's Harlem, it was one of his favorite genres. One of his fondest memories was from 1947 when he attended a recording session of Duke Ellington and his band, then caught a...
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This collection is comprised mostly of Square Dance calling and music, and couples dancing music. Donation item at archive.org/details/LarryEdelman78RPMRecords2017
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/AldoMancusi78s
The Tina Argumedo and Lucrecia Hug Collection of 78s contains discs collected in Argentina beginning in the mid-1930s. It comprises primarily tango music, with boleros, sambas, mambo and other dance music. The collection was donated by D'Anna Alexander, Michael and Daniel Alexander, and Débora Simcovich. D'Anna Alexander (center) with her mother (right) and grandmother (left). https://archive.org/details/d_anna_2017 Contains details of the physical collection.
Topic: 78rpm, argentina, argentian tango
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/Stagno2018
Thank you for visiting my "museum"! This is the Internet Collection of a private German record collector with interests mainly in Opera and Lied from 1900 to 1945. Meanwhile you can find also other collections with popular 78s, mixed historical recordings, printed matter about music and historical photos put together by me. This collection is curated and still growing. I try to document the items meticolousely in the knowledge that they will hopefully be preserved for further...
Topics: 78 rpm recordings, shellack recordings
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/donald_ross_2018
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/Ed_Bahr_COL_968
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/eugene_baron_2018
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/cliffmay78s_2018
This collection is more than 8,000 sound recordings, primarily seventy-eight rpm pre-war discs, deeded to Kansas State University by Mr. Stratton’s estate in 1968. The recordings represent a broad range of early jazz, classical and popular music. This collection was donated by The Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections at Kansas State University through the kind efforts of Head Librarian, Keli E. Rylance, Ph.D. Charles William Stratton (1906-1966) was a noted...
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/ianstewart78s
Source: 78
Bruce Lyall, the proprietor of the Haight Street Recycled Records , has been a good friend of the Internet Archive always giving LP’s, 78’s, and CD’s to us as we have needed test records. He has even introduced us to others that have been de-accessioning their collections. Visit the archive.org Recycled Records collection . Link to donation item: archive.org/details/recycled_records_2017
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/Santa_Cruz_Recordings
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/billhise_2018
A collection of digitized 78 rpm records from the 78'er Klubben in Denmark. 78's Klubben is an informal group of people who like to hear music from the old 78's recordings. It is pure nostalgia and a little music cultural history. teater-musik.dk/sw24619.asp
Topic: 78rpm
Source: 78
The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) was established on 1 April 2004, supported by a 5-year grant of just under £1m from the Arts and Humanities Research Council . A partnership of Royal Holloway, University of London (host institution) with King's College, London and the University of Sheffield , CHARM's aim was to promote the musicological study of recordings, drawing on a wide range of approaches ranging from computational analysis to business...
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/UniversityofVermont
Donation item: https://archive.org/details/Rider_University_Libraries_COL_642
Mr. Strider rescued his dad’s collection of about 300 seventy-eights. He donate the entire collection to avoid sorting and selling separately, cataloged them all, and kindly dropped them off to the IA in San Francisco. Our favorite’s from this batch are the blues discs by Elle Mae Morse. Thanks to Jerry McBride at Stanford University Library recommending us to Mike. Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/michael_strider_records_20170301
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/covington2018
Even if I am a collector of "serious" opera recordings on 78 rpm, I am also much faszinated of the diversity of genres and discoveries you can make in the field of popular music recordings. In addition to my collection Emilio's 78 Heritage I will give here an overlook over the many facets and genres of recorded "popular" sound and music since the beginning of sound recording to the end of the shellack era in the 1950ies. It also includes much about operetta, which...
Music, in all its forms, has long been a part of the domestic, religious, and social life of the Slovenes. With the spread of Christianity in the 5th century, liturgical hymns were introduced in the region they later inhabited. Secular songs can be traced back to the 9th century. The first director of the Vienna Boys Choir, established in 1498, was the Slovenian scholar, composer, and choirmaster Jurij Slatkonja, who also served as leader of the emperor’s musicians and as Bishop of Vienna....
Topic: Slovenian music
A collection of LP's with transfers of 78rpm records, piano rolls, cylinders.
Topics: music, vinyl, Duo-Art, Welte-Mignon, classical, vocal, opera, 78rpm
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/RROconnor2018
A donation of 78's from Ann and Edward Nelson. The collection originally belonged to Ann's grandparents, Lee and Helen Petersen of Coquille Oregon. Lee and Helen acquired many of the records from Lee's parents and continued to add to them with their own selections. Lee worked as a cowboy and rancher in the early 1900's in Humbolt County California and Coos County Oregon. the collection reflects this Western heritage with several records containing cowboy songs, hobo songs and early Hawai'ian...
For more than 25 years Mr. Hinckley has donated thousands of books, LPs and CDs to The ARChive of Contemporary Music. With the advent of the Great78Project David donated a superb collection of more than 300 Country, Cowboy, Western Swing and Hillbilly 78s. Great stuff including discs by the Carter Family, Bill Boyd, Delmore Brothers, Pie Plant Pete, The Skillet Lickers, Arkansas Woodchoppers – 22 by Lefty Frizzell alone. We love these focused collections, especially when in such excellent...
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Great performances from the early 20th century in the Golden Age of Opera recorded on 78rpm records. The metadata used to populate this collection can be found here: https://archive.org/download/78-opera/opera.csv
Topics: 78rpm, opera
78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
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32K
Nov 2, 2017
11/17
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Glenn Miller and his Orchestra; Johnson; Dash; Hawkins; Joe Garland
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Performer: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra Writer: Johnson; Dash; Hawkins; Joe Garland Fox Trot. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer these records. They are 3.5 mil truncated eliptical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated eliptical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 400.0, Rolloff: -12.0. The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version...
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Topics: 78rpm, Big Band
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/ralph_hyman_2018
78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P.
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27K
Jan 17, 2018
01/18
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Lil Armstrong; Clarence Williams; Clarence Willaims; Louis Armstrong And His Orchcestra; Neiburg; Dorothy Fields; Daugherty; Louis Armstrong; Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra; Jimmy McHugh; Joe Oliver; Reynolds; Spencer Williams
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Performer: Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra; Louis Armstrong; Louis Armstrong And His Orchcestra Writer: Spencer Williams; Clarence Willaims; Joe Oliver; Jimmy McHugh; Dorothy Fields; Louis Armstrong; Lil Armstrong; Clarence Williams; Daugherty; Reynolds; Neiburg Instrumental; Fox Trot; Fox Trot; Vocal Chorus; Vocal Chorus; Fox Trot; Vocal Chorus. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer these records. They are 3.8 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated...
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Topics: Jazz, 78rpm
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/suzan_frost_2018
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/ARC-04262017
The cylinder recordings available here are an online project started in 1998 by Norman Bruderhofer, a phonograph collector and audio preservationist from Germany. Dedicated to the invention and development of the phonograph, the Cylinder Archive serves as a detailed source of information for hobbyists. One component of Bruderhofer's project is a monthly release of a new cylinder recording. The releases are produced by carefully filtering electronic transfers from the original cylinder...
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/marciasands2018
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/CGreen2018
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/Williamson78s
Performer: Achilleas Poulos Tenor; Turkish; Song. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.8mil truncated conical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical. The preferred versions suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. have been copied to have the more friendly filenames. Matrix number: W 205442 Catalog number: 75011-F Other IDs from the record include: (205442); 3-A-5
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Topics: 78rpm, Popular Music
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/ucsb-78rpm
78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
17,735
18K
Nov 1, 2017
11/17
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Dorothy Lamour; Dick McIntire And His Harmony Hawaiians; Del Lyon; Lani McIntire; Gordon Beecher; Johnny Noble; Alfred Newman; Frank Loesser; R. Alex Anderson
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Performer: Dorothy Lamour; Dick McIntire And His Harmony Hawaiians Writer: Del Lyon; Lani McIntire; Gordon Beecher; Johnny Noble; Alfred Newman; Frank Loesser; R. Alex Anderson Vocal with Instrumental Accompaniment. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer these records. They are 3.8 mil truncated eliptical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated eliptical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 400.0,...
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Topics: 78rpm, Hawaiian
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/EldonLoblein78s
78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
71,028
71K
Aug 25, 2018
08/18
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Duke Ellington and His Orchestra; Razaf; Schafer; Johnson
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Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Writer: Razaf; Schafer; Johnson Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.8mil truncated conical, 2.3mil truncated conical, 2.8mil truncated conical, 3.3mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 250.0. The preferred versions suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. have been copied to have the more friendly filenames. Matrix number: E28360...
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Topics: 78rpm, Dance
Source: 78
78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
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Apr 20, 2017
04/17
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Harry James and the Boogie Woogie Trio; James; Pete Johnson; Eddie Dougherty; Johnny Williams; Albert Ammons; Joe Turner and Pete Johnson; Johnson; Joe Turner; Count Basie's Bue Five; Pinetop Smith; James Rushing; Meade Lux Lewis; Lewis; Ammons
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Performer: Harry James and the Boogie Woogie Trio; Pete Johnson; Eddie Dougherty; Johnny Williams; Albert Ammons; Joe Turner and Pete Johnson; Joe Turner; Count Basie's Bue Five; James Rushing; Meade Lux Lewis Writer: James; Johnson; Pinetop Smith; Lewis; Ammons Fox Trot; Fast Blues; Vocal Chorus; Three Pianos; Piano Solo. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer these records. They are 3.5 mil truncated eliptical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated...
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Topics: 78rpm, Jazz
Source: 78
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/russ_depillis_2018
Donation Item: https://archive.org/details/ward_klein_o_connor_tershakovec_2018
78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings
25,284
25K
Mar 17, 2017
03/17
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Hotel Nacional Orchestra; Beltran; Pozo; Hernandez; Estivill; Estevill; Hotel Nactional Orchestra; A. Castro
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Performer: Hotel Nacional Orchestra; Hotel Nactional Orchestra Writer: Beltran; Pozo; Hernandez; Estivill; Estevill; A. Castro Bolero; Havana, Cuba; Rhumba-Guaracha; Havana, Cuba; Rhumba; Havana, Cuba; Havana, Cuba; Havana, Cuba; Havana, Cuba; Conga; Havana, Cuba; Conga. Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer these records. They are 3.5 mil truncated eliptical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded...
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Topics: 78rpm, Latin
Source: 78
Donation of Blues and Jazz recordings from Stephen Klein of Larry A. Klein's collection. Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/stephenklein_larryklein
Link to donation item: https://archive.org/details/GwynDrischellDonation
