This December 1907 recording of "Auld Lang Syne," featuring vocals by bass Frank Stanley, is ranked #73 on the RIAA's 2001 list of the top 365 songs of the 20th century. It appears on our Phonographic Yearbook, 1907: "Dear Old Golden Rule Days."

Auld Lang Syne by Frank Stanley (1907)

In honor of HM Elizabeth II (1926-2022), who reigned as Queen of England for 70 years, we present this ca. 1891 recording of “God Save the Queen,” from our GRAMMY-nominated album "Etching the Voice," which presents the earliest disc recordings of Emile Berliner. Of course, when this was recorded, it referred to a different monarch, Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who reigned for 63 years. Press coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s passing has pointed out that her reign has constituted 30% of the period that the United States has existed since the ratification of our Constitution in 1788. Well, if you add in Queen Victoria’s time on the throne, the tenure of the two queens together have overlapped with 57% of U.S. history! 

Here's the transcription of this recording:

God save our noble Queen!
Long live our gracious Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen!

Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!

Etching the Voice

God Save The Queen (ca. 1891)

Sample the selections from our upcoming Phonographic Yearbook. 1919: "Jazzin' Around and Paintin' the Town" features 25 selections and includes a 24 page, full-color booklet with notes on the selections, discographical information on the the recordings, and an interpretive historical essay.

Street date: May 27, 2014. 

Beautiful Ohio by Henry Burr (1918)

Till We Meet Again by Nicholas Orlando's Orchestra (1919)

I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad by American Quartet (1911)

Down by the Old Mill Stream by Arthur Clough & Brunswick Quartette (1911)

Some of These Days by Sophie Tucker (1911)

Selections from our upcoming release Isham Jones, Happy

Sahara Rose by Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

Sample selections from our upcoming 2 disc collection of Isham Jones' earliest recording. Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides features 37 selections recorded by Isham Jones' Orchestra during their tenure at the Rainbo Room in Chicago. The set includes a 32 page booklet with notes by musician and jazz scholar David Sager. Sample all of the selections and learn more at www.archeophone.com/cds/6008/ .

Release date: August 26, 2014

Kismet by Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

My Mammy by Isham Jones Orchestra (1920)

Sample selections from our 2 disc collection of Isham Jones' earliest recordings. Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides features 37 selections recorded by Isham Jones' Orchestra in 1920 and a 32 page booklet with notes by musician and jazz scholar David Sager. Sample all of the selections and learn more at www.archeophone.com/cds/6008/ .

Dance-O-Mania by Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

Waiting for the Sun to Come Out by Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

La Veeda by Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

So Long, Oo Long by Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl (Dan W. Quinn, 1897)

At 77 years of age, Fanny Crosby made her first and only record: A recitation of a then-unpublished poem, "Threescore Years and Ten," for a friend's phonograph, at the August 1897 Methodist camp meeting in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. This snippet presents a sample of her voice; the full recording, along with the story of identifying the records, is told in our upcoming release "Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890-1900"

Read the full press release: http://archeophone.com/press-releases/fanny-crosbys-voice-discovered/

Learn more about the album: http://archeophone.com/catalogue/waxing-the-gospel

Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890-1900

Threescore Years and Ten by Fanny Crosby (1897)

This is the earliest extant recording of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Recorded by the Standard Quartette in 1894, this predates other recordings of this spiritual by  an amazing 15 years. You can read more about how we found and identified this selection, which is featured on "Waxing the Gospel,"  at http://bit.ly/2cgBubt and preorder the set at http://archeophone.com/catalogue/waxing-the-gospel/

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by the Standard Quartette (1894)

Sample the selections from our upcoming EP, 4 Banjo Songs: 1891-1897. The selections in this medley are 1. Haul the Woodpile Down (ca. 1893–94), 2. Never Done Anything Since (ca. 1892–93),3. A New Coon in Town (1897), and 4. Keep in de Middle ob de Road (ca. 1891). Asbury was an African American banjo player, and these may be the earliest examples of minstrel-style banjo playing on record. The 7-inch 45-rpm EP is packaged in a gatefold jacket and includes a 16-page booklet with musical and biographical notes by Grammy-nominated authors Richard Martin and Ted Olson. 4 Banjo Songs will be released May 4.

4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897

Charles A. Asbury: 4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897

Enjoy this excerpt of a 1910 recording in which boxer Jack Johnson described his big fight with Jim Jeffries. The complete track is on our Grammy-winning release "Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry."

Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922

My Own Story of the Big Fight by Jack Johnson

The Missing Link

With You, Dear, in Bombay by   Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra conducted by Charlie Chaplin (1925)

Rosita by   International Novelty Orchestra (1923)

Pesticatin’ Mamma by   Paul Ash and His Granada Orchestra (1923)

Honey Babe by   Lyman’s California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra (1923)

By The Pyramids by Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra (1921)

I Love You Sunday by   Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (1920)

Bow-Wow by   Wiedoeft Wadsworth Quartet (1920)

Read ‘Em and Weep by   Al Bernard (1920)

Karavan by Carl Fenton’s Orchestra (1919)

Underneath the Japanese Moon by   Irving Kaufman (1914)

The Moorish (“Maurice”) Glide by   Victor Military Band (1914)

Grammy-winning reissue label dedicated to the acoustic era of recording--the 1890s through 1925. We preserve, restore, and contextualize lost sounds.

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