Archeophone presents its new series of CDs, compilations focusing on some of the most intriguing performing artists of the early recording industry. Very few of these acoustic era pioneers have been reissued in the years since their original records appeared, and those who have been are represented by only a few of their biggest hits. Our Pioneers series will give long-overdue in-depth treatments of key early artists. Each CD will look at a specific period of a performer’s career, presenting his or her releases in chronological order. As usual, you will get thorough and provocative notes with each package, including writing about the artist’s influence upon the early recording industry. Biographical notes will concentrate primarily on the years covered by the recordings. Archeophone hopes that our new series will be prompt further research into the lives, careers, and contributions of these fascinating personalities—true recording pioneers.
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Anthology: America’s Favorite Entertainers
Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
Released: January 29, 2021 • Catalogue: ARCH 5507 • UPC: 860003210031
Before Phil and Don Everly, before Simon and Garfunkel, long before Hall and Oates . . . the most popular recording duo over the first quarter of the 20th century was the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan. Dubbed “America’s Favorite Entertainers” as they crisscrossed America in the late 1910s and early 1920s promoting Edison’s superior talking machines, Collins and Harlan came face to face with the thousands of ordinary people who bought the records that became the comical soundtrack of a generation. They represented the best and the worst of popular culture: advancing the career of Jewish émigré Irving Berlin and Black songwriters such as Chris Smith, W.C. Handy, and Shelton Brooks, while also perpetuating racist stereotypes. The issues, as usual, are thorny, but Archeophone tackles them with care and honesty. GRAMMY-recognized authors Ryan Barna and Richard Martin present the clear-eyed but accurate case of these two rough-and-ready unlikely partners who also became friends and took the phonograph by storm. Over 29 tracks, we lead you from 1902 to 1924, depicting a story that has never been told in LP form until now. Fantastic sound, too—you won’t believe how great these records sound! List price: $16.99
Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier
Arthur Fields
Released: July 12, 2019 • Catalogue: ARCH 5506 • UPC: 868490000272
Wanting to run away from home since age eleven, Abraham Finkelstein was always after something. He masked his Jewish background by adopting the stage name Arthur Fields and launched a long and prolific career as a songwriter, vaudevillian, recording artist, radio personality, and music publisher. Featuring 26 tracks and a 32-page booklet with notes by Grammy-nominated author Ryan Barna, Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier tells the story of Fields’ four-decade recording career and constant reinventions. We hear his 1914 debut with a long-forgotten Irving Berlin number, follow along as he becomes one of the key voices and songwriters of World War I, then listen as he reinvents himself as a “hillbilly” during the country music boom of the ’20s and ’30s. The compilation ends with two remarkable selections: His emotional 1941 recording of “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” and a 1951 wire recording captured by record collector Dick Carty in which he reprises his most famous composition, “It’s a Long Way to Berlin, but We’ll Get There!” List price: $17.99
The Mike and Meyer Files
Joe Weber and Lew Fields
Released: May 31, 2019 • Catalogue: ARCH 5023 • UPC: 868490000265
With their potent mixture of slapstick and fractured German dialect comedy, the pioneering vaudeville duo of Joe Weber and Lew Fields can rightly be called the granddaddy of all American comedy teams. They conquered Broadway with a series of hit burlesque comedies that pointed the way towards “Forbidden Broadway” and Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” and laid the foundation for later comedy teams the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, and the Three Stooges. Now for the first time, all of the pair’s comedy recordings have been masterfully restored and compiled in one collection that tells the story of this hugely influential duo. Includes a 32-page booklet with new scholarship by celebrated authors Trav S.D., L. Marc Fields, and Richard Martin. List price: $16.99
Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894-1917
Dan W. Quinn
Released: June 16, 2015 • Catalogue: ARCH 5505 • UPC: 778632907133
Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894-1917 features 30 selections, taken from rare cylinders and discs, that highlight Dan W. Quinn’s quarter-century in the studio, featuring the up-to-date comic numbers he was best known for, along with sentimental ballads and ragtime songs he helped establish as standards. The 52-page booklet inside the digipak presents original research and stunning new discoveries about the man and his career, illustrated with many previously unpublished photos. List price: $17.99
The Indestructible Uncle Josh
Cal Stewart
Released: June 11, 2013 • Catalogue: ARCH 5009 • UPC: 778632906204
A humorist who spent 22 years waxing his Uncle Josh stories, Cal Stewart was the first performer whose stage appearances were celebrated by reference to his records rather than the other way around. In his famous role as “rube” Uncle Josh Weathersby, he entertained millions of listeners with tales of his antics both in New York City and at home in Punkin Center. The Indestructible Uncle Josh provides a snapshot of Stewart’s repertoire at the height of his career, featuring all 25 of his 2-minute cylinders for the Indestructible company and a choice sampling of his work on U-S Everlasting cylinders. The package includes a 28-page booklet with notes by Stewart expert and scholar Patrick Feaster. List price: $16.49
World-Famous Wizard of the Cornet
Bohumir Kryl
Released: September 25, 2012 • Catalogue: ARCH 5022 • UPC: 778632905931
Bohemian-born Bohumir Kryl made sounds with the cornet that audiences had never heard before and that no one had dared to try to record until he came along. He had the outsized ego to make sure he would not soon be forgotten, making his interpretations of the classic repertoire into standards along the way. World-Famous Wizard of the Cornet features 28 selections, recorded between 1901 and 1918, that showcase Kryl’s unique technical gifts. A 32-page full-color booklet is included that tells Kryl’s life story from his earliest days as a circus acrobat and sculptor. A must-have for musicians. List price: $16.99
Ed. Morton’s "Bit of Broadway"
Eddie Morton
Released: March 27, 2012 • Catalogue: ARCH 5017 • UPC: 778632905542
The Sound of Vaudeville, Vol. 2 covers the career of Eddie Morton from 1911 through 1917. He was one of the variety stage’s most important song pluggers of the era: if Eddie featured it, it would be a hit. All-time classics include “The Oceana Roll” and “Play That Barbershop Chord.” Don’t miss Morton’s own compositions, “Noodle Soup Rag” and “I’ve Got You, Steve!” Researcher Ryan Barna revisits the early life of Morton and fills in some gaps before taking us to the end of Eddie’s stage life and beyond, when he ran a restaurant on the Wildwood boardwalk called Ed. Morton’s “Bit of Broadway. List price: $16.49
Pennant-Winning Battery of Songland
Van and Schenck
Released: February 7, 2012 • Catalogue: ARCH 5016 • UPC: 778632905535
“Pennant-Winning Battery of Songland” compiles the first recordings made by Jazz Age superstars Gus Van and Joe Schenck. The collection features 28 selections recorded between 1916 and 1918 and includes a 28-page color booklet with biographical notes by vaudevillian and author Trav S.D. that trace their rise from boyhood friends performing in Brooklyn to vaudeville superstars. The booklet also includes full discographical information for the featured selections and lots of images of both the duo and the recordings. List price: $16.49
The High Priestess of Jollity & The Southern Singer
May Irwin and Clarice Vance
Released: June 14, 2011 • Catalogue: ARCH 5015 • UPC: 778632904385
The High Priestess of Jollity & The Southern Singer brings together the complete recorded output of two early stars of the vaudeville stage: Clarice Vance and May Irwin. Though prominent on stage—and sheet music covers—both had very short recording careers, with Irwin’s output totalling 6 sides and Vance’s 15. This set presents these 21 recordings for the first time and tells the story of these two remarkable women. The package includes a 32-page, full-color booklet with biographical essays on each of women and a bounty of photographs and lush illustrations. List price: $16.99
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 4
Guido Deiro
Released: October 16, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5019 • UPC: 778632904453
Volume 4, which concludes the Complete Recorded Works of Guido Deiro, presents the final years of Deiro’s recording career. The set brings him into the electrical era of recording and features several super-rare recordings in the ethnic series of records as well as lots of personal photographs courtesy of Deiro’s son. The set includes a 28 page full-color booklet with notes and scholarship by accordion expert Henry Doktorski. List price: $16.49
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 3
Guido Deiro
Released: October 16, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5018 • UPC: 778632904446
The third volume in our Complete Recorded Works of Guido Deiro picks up where Volume 2 left off, continuing his foray into popular material. The set features an increasing number of his own compositions (9 in total), including his signature song, “Kismet.” The set includes a 24 page full-color booklet with notes and scholarship by accordion expert Henry Doktorski. List price: $16.49
There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
Released: September 28, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5020 • UPC: 778632904743
Stung by critics who perceived spirituals as painful reminders of slavery, uplifted by the praise of royalty and world-renowned artists, John Wesley Work II toiled for three decades at Fisk University with single-minded determination to promulgate the good news of jubilee songcraft. Here for the first time his story is told in vivid detail by celebrated author Doug Seroff, accompanied by the 43 extant selections recorded by the Fisk Quartet when Work led the group-including all nine legendary Edison cylinders that feature Roland Hayes as second tenor and the four recitations of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry by James A. Myers. The selections are introduced by spoken excerpts from Rev. Jerome I. Wright, one of the last living Fisk students to have sung under John Work’s direction. Two CDs, more than 100 pages of history and illustrations, and recording notes by Tim Brooks, author of Lost Sounds, give voice to the bondsman’s hope and breath to the freedman’s courage. List price: $39.99
Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920
Various Artists
Released: April 20, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5451 • UPC: 778632901995
Featuring 32 rare tracks that go all the way back to 1892, Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920 tells the story of the clarinet’s instrumental role in the early recording industry. The set includes a 24 page booklet with notes by clarinet expert Stan Stanford and rare images and photos. List price: $16.99
Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922
Sophie Tucker
Released: August 25, 2009 • Catalogue: ARCH 5010 • UPC: 778632901674
Gathered for the first time, here are Sophie Tucker’s earliest recordings, from Edison wax cylinders and impossibly rare discs, chronicling the rough and ready rise of this lasting icon of the double entendre. A master of self-marketing, Tucker learned long before she became known as The Last of the Red Hot Mamas that the key to her success lie in controlling–and changing as needed–the facts of her personal story. Documentarians Susan and Lloyd Ecker unravel all the loose ends and contradictory threads comprising the early years of one of the 20th century’s most colorful stage personalities. With a hardback book-binding and 72 full-color pages, this beautiful package features dozens of illustrations from Sophie’s personal scrapbooks, a foreword by Michael Feinstein, and a personal remembrance by Carol Channing. List price: $23.99
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2
Guido Deiro
Released: May 12, 2009 • Catalogue: ARCH 5014 • UPC: 778632901971
Volume 2 of Guido Deiro’s complete recordings includes 25 tracks showcasing Deiro’s mastery of both popular and classical material. The package includes a 24-page full-color booklet with extensive notes by free-reed scholar Henry Doktorski, meticulous restorations of the music, and personal photos provided by Guido’s son, Count Guido Roberto Deiro. The tracks were recorded between 1911 and 1917 and include the only two accordion duets waxed by Guido and his brother, Pietro. Additionally, Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2 will be of interest to historians of vaudeville and films, as it features new revelations about the marriage of Guido Deiro and Mae West. In his detailed notes, Guido’s son recalls his meeting with Mae West in 1959 when she told him the facts of her relationship with Deiro–the mysterious “Mr. D” mentioned in her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It. These are the things she never told any interviewer, and now the historical record is set straight. List price: $16.49
Sweetheart of the A.E.F.
Elsie Janis
Released: May 12, 2009 • Catalogue: ARCH 5013 • UPC: 778632901681
With 24 tracks, Sweetheart of the AEF features the almost-complete acoustic-era output of Elsie Janis, a star of the stage who took her act to the soldiers on the front lines in World War I. Sweetheart of the AEF comes with a lavishly illustrated, 24-page full-color booklet with notes and scholarship by our late friend and collaborator, Allen G. Debus. List price: $16.49
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1
Guido Deiro
Released: May 16, 2007 • Catalogue: ARCH 5012 • UPC: 778632900370
The greatest piano-accordion player ever to grace the instrument! Compiled with the assistance of Guido Deiro’s son, Count Roberto Guido Deiro, and featuring the scholarship of master accordion player Henry Doktorski. Tracks range from light classical and operatic to ragtime and the pop hits of the day. List price: $34.99
The Famous Tramp Comedian
Nat M. Wills
Released: May 16, 2007 • Catalogue: ARCH 5011 • UPC: 778632900363
26 tracks and a thoroughly entertaining 24-page booklet featuring a new biographical sketch by vaudeville historian Trav S.D. Although he was popular on stage for more than two decades, playing the scruffy but urbane tramp, Wills’ recorded output totaled only 26 distinct titles, and they are all here, compiled for the first time ever and sounding like they were recorded yesterday. List price: $16.49
Echoes from Asbury Park
Arthur Pryor and His Band
Released: April 8, 2006 • Catalogue: ARCH 5008 • UPC: 777215110038
One of the premier conductors of the early 20th century, Pryor was second in reputation only to Sousa, and his band traveled the world spreading Pryor’s fame for ragtime, classical adaptations, and masterful musical precision. Guided by trombonist and Pryor expert David Sager, we have assembled these 25 recordings into two simulated "concerts," presenting them the way that visitors to New Jersey’s resort spot, Asbury Park, might have heard them in the first decade of the last century. List price: $16.49
Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer
Irving Kaufman
Released: December 6, 2005 • Catalogue: ARCH 5504 • UPC: 777215109469
Irving Kaufman, Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer represents Irving’s incredible 60-year span of activity, beginning from his first acoustic recordings in 1914 to the final cuts made in his home in August 1974. The booklet includes several rare photographs, some contributed by Irving’s family, and features detailed liner notes by Kaufman expert Ryan Barna, examining both the professional and personal life of this legendary performer. List price: $16.99
Anthology: The Original King of Pop
Henry Burr
Released: March 17, 2005 • Catalogue: ARCH 5502 • UPC: 777215108066
Now available in an improved second edition: a career-spanning retrospective, featuring 27 songs, recorded over 25 years by Henry Burr–the most popular ballad singer of the first 30 years of the recording industry. The collection begins in 1903, when disc technology was still in its primitive stages, and ends in 1928, during the early electrical recording era, showing Burr in full vocal power. Duets with Ada Jones, Albert Campbell, and Frank Stanley, trios with Campbell and Oakland and the Sterling Trio, and quartets with the amazing Peerless Quartet-they’re all here on this outstanding collection. List price: $16.99
Together and Alone
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
Released: October 12, 2004 • Catalogue: ARCH 5007 • UPC: 777215107052
With 51 songs on 2 CDs and running for over two and a half hours, Together and Alone is a landmark retrospective of two of Broadway’s brightest stars ever, Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. This ambitious collection boasts some of the most classic songs in American history, performed by the pair that brought them to the stage. In addition to a 32-page booklet with extensive illustrations and notes co-authored by Allen G. Debus, the CD includes three never-before released tracks: two by Nora Bayes from 1917 and one by Jack Norworth from ca. 1950—”a home recording of Bayes and Norworth’s biggest hit, “Shine On, Harvest Moon.” List price: $27.99
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The Early Years, 1901-1909
Bert Williams
Released: August 21, 2004 • Catalogue: ARCH 5004 • UPC: 777215106611
The first volume of The Complete Bert Williams, featuringthe legendary comedian’s rarest records. 31 tracks from 1901-1909, including several with George Walker: 15 tracks from their 1901 sessions and a further 16 tracks from sessions in 1906 and following. Five selections are featured in both their 7- and 10-inch disc versions, and the collection includes all four of Williams’ 2-minute cylinders, one 3-minute cylinder, and one rejected take from 1906. The 32-page full-color deluxe booklet features illustrations as rare as the records, with notes co-authored by renowned scholar Allen G. Debus and also reprints in its entirety George Walker’s 1906 reminiscences about the beginnings of Williams and Walker in “The Real ‘Coon’ on the American Stage.” List price: $17.49
The Sound of Vaudeville, Vol. 1
Eddie Morton
Released: October 4, 2003 • Catalogue: ARCH 5006 • UPC: 777215104648
28 songs from 1907-1910, recorded in Camden and New York, with a lavish 28-page booklet containing newly discovered biographical data and rare graphics. Includes all the early rare Victors and Columbias, as well as the Edison 4-minute cylinder of “A Singer Sang a Song,” and the Indestructible cylinder of “In the Right Church, but in the Wrong Pew.” The former “Singing Cop” from Philadelphia, Eddie Morton was a top stage performer for more than 20 years. List price: $16.49
Floating Down the River
The Heidelberg Quintet featuring Billy Murray
Released: May 27, 2003 • Catalogue: ARCH 5005 • UPC: 777215104631
Complete releases from 1912-1914, with two bonus tracks from 1910 before the ensemble took the name of the Heidelberg Quintet; 26 total songs, including three Edison 4-minute cylinders. Lead vocals by Billy Murray and countertenor Will Oakland. Features a 24-page booklet with previously unpublished notes on the group and a complete reprinting of the hitherto forgotten “Reminiscences of Early Talking Machine Days” by first tenor John Bieling, from The Talking Machine World in April 1914. List price: $16.49
Anthology: The Denver Nightingale
Billy Murray
Released: October 22, 2002 • Catalogue: ARCH 5501 • UPC: 656605931821
Newly remastered in 2018—sounds better than ever!
30 songs from 1903-1940 that provide a career retrospective of the most popular recording artist of the acoustic era. Includes the rare brown wax cylinder of “The Way to Kiss a Girl” from one of Billy’s first recording sessions for Columbia, and “It’s the Same Old Shillelagh,” peformed with Harry’s Tavern Band in his comeback of 1940. Features collaborations with Ada Jones, the American and Haydn Quartets, Aileen Stanley, Ed. Smalle, and Walter Scanlan. A thick 24-page booklet contains a biographical essay and song notes by Murray biographer Frank Hoffmann and a reminiscence of Murray by a man who knew him, Quentin Riggs! List price: $16.99
The Middle Years, 1910-1918
Bert Williams
Released: August 15, 2002 • Catalogue: ARCH 5003 • UPC: 656605928920
The second volume of The Complete Bert Williams. 26 songs from 1910-1918, recorded in New York, including two monologuesthat were held for release until after Bert’s death: “How? Fried” and “You Can’t Do Nothing Till Martin Gets Here.” 24-page booklet with rare graphics, and notes co-written by Allen G. Debus. Also features the entire article “The Comic Side of Trouble,” by Bert Williams, published in 1918 by the American Magazine. List price: $16.49
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His Final Releases, 1919-1922
Bert Williams
Released: July 2, 2001 • Catalogue: ARCH 5002 • UPC: 656605918129
The third volume of The Complete Bert Williams. 24 songs from 1919-1922, recorded in New York and Chicago, including both “Elder Eatmore” sermons. Booklet now (2005) expanded to 20 pages, with notes on Williams’ final years, sheet music illustrations, and other rare graphics. Sound of some noisier tracks now improved. List price: $16.49
The Complete Victor Releases
Marion Harris
Released: December 9, 2000 • Catalogue: ARCH 5001A • UPC: 777215104600
Second edition (2005), featuring newly remastered sound, one bonus track, and expanded and enhanced 20-page booklet. 22 selections, recorded between 1916 and 1919, including one rejected take from 1917, and two final selections from 1927. Marion Harris was the first female vocalist to record songs with “jazz” and “blues” in their titles; she exemplifies the transition from the old school of gutsy ragtime singing to the newer, softer kind of delivery that was typical of female vocalists of the 1920s. List price: $16.49
Together and Alone
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
Released: October 12, 2004 • Catalogue: ARCH 5007 • UPC: 777215107052
With 51 songs on 2 CDs and running for over two and a half hours, Together and Alone is a landmark retrospective of two of Broadway’s brightest stars ever, Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. This ambitious collection boasts some of the most classic songs in American history, performed by the pair that brought them to the stage. In addition to a 32-page booklet with extensive illustrations and notes co-authored by Allen G. Debus, the CD includes three never-before released tracks: two by Nora Bayes from 1917 and one by Jack Norworth from ca. 1950—”a home recording of Bayes and Norworth’s biggest hit, “Shine On, Harvest Moon.” List price: $27.99
Currently Out of Stock
Anthology: The Original King of Pop
Henry Burr
Released: March 17, 2005 • Catalogue: ARCH 5502 • UPC: 777215108066
Now available in an improved second edition: a career-spanning retrospective, featuring 27 songs, recorded over 25 years by Henry Burr–the most popular ballad singer of the first 30 years of the recording industry. The collection begins in 1903, when disc technology was still in its primitive stages, and ends in 1928, during the early electrical recording era, showing Burr in full vocal power. Duets with Ada Jones, Albert Campbell, and Frank Stanley, trios with Campbell and Oakland and the Sterling Trio, and quartets with the amazing Peerless Quartet-they’re all here on this outstanding collection. List price: $16.99
Anthology: America’s Favorite Entertainers
Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
Released: January 29, 2021 • Catalogue: ARCH 5507 • UPC: 860003210031
Before Phil and Don Everly, before Simon and Garfunkel, long before Hall and Oates . . . the most popular recording duo over the first quarter of the 20th century was the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan. Dubbed “America’s Favorite Entertainers” as they crisscrossed America in the late 1910s and early 1920s promoting Edison’s superior talking machines, Collins and Harlan came face to face with the thousands of ordinary people who bought the records that became the comical soundtrack of a generation. They represented the best and the worst of popular culture: advancing the career of Jewish émigré Irving Berlin and Black songwriters such as Chris Smith, W.C. Handy, and Shelton Brooks, while also perpetuating racist stereotypes. The issues, as usual, are thorny, but Archeophone tackles them with care and honesty. GRAMMY-recognized authors Ryan Barna and Richard Martin present the clear-eyed but accurate case of these two rough-and-ready unlikely partners who also became friends and took the phonograph by storm. Over 29 tracks, we lead you from 1902 to 1924, depicting a story that has never been told in LP form until now. Fantastic sound, too—you won’t believe how great these records sound! List price: $16.99
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1
Guido Deiro
Released: May 16, 2007 • Catalogue: ARCH 5012 • UPC: 778632900370
The greatest piano-accordion player ever to grace the instrument! Compiled with the assistance of Guido Deiro’s son, Count Roberto Guido Deiro, and featuring the scholarship of master accordion player Henry Doktorski. Tracks range from light classical and operatic to ragtime and the pop hits of the day. List price: $34.99
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2
Guido Deiro
Released: May 12, 2009 • Catalogue: ARCH 5014 • UPC: 778632901971
Volume 2 of Guido Deiro’s complete recordings includes 25 tracks showcasing Deiro’s mastery of both popular and classical material. The package includes a 24-page full-color booklet with extensive notes by free-reed scholar Henry Doktorski, meticulous restorations of the music, and personal photos provided by Guido’s son, Count Guido Roberto Deiro. The tracks were recorded between 1911 and 1917 and include the only two accordion duets waxed by Guido and his brother, Pietro. Additionally, Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2 will be of interest to historians of vaudeville and films, as it features new revelations about the marriage of Guido Deiro and Mae West. In his detailed notes, Guido’s son recalls his meeting with Mae West in 1959 when she told him the facts of her relationship with Deiro–the mysterious “Mr. D” mentioned in her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It. These are the things she never told any interviewer, and now the historical record is set straight. List price: $16.49
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 3
Guido Deiro
Released: October 16, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5018 • UPC: 778632904446
The third volume in our Complete Recorded Works of Guido Deiro picks up where Volume 2 left off, continuing his foray into popular material. The set features an increasing number of his own compositions (9 in total), including his signature song, “Kismet.” The set includes a 24 page full-color booklet with notes and scholarship by accordion expert Henry Doktorski. List price: $16.49
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 4
Guido Deiro
Released: October 16, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5019 • UPC: 778632904453
Volume 4, which concludes the Complete Recorded Works of Guido Deiro, presents the final years of Deiro’s recording career. The set brings him into the electrical era of recording and features several super-rare recordings in the ethnic series of records as well as lots of personal photographs courtesy of Deiro’s son. The set includes a 28 page full-color booklet with notes and scholarship by accordion expert Henry Doktorski. List price: $16.49
Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier
Arthur Fields
Released: July 12, 2019 • Catalogue: ARCH 5506 • UPC: 868490000272
Wanting to run away from home since age eleven, Abraham Finkelstein was always after something. He masked his Jewish background by adopting the stage name Arthur Fields and launched a long and prolific career as a songwriter, vaudevillian, recording artist, radio personality, and music publisher. Featuring 26 tracks and a 32-page booklet with notes by Grammy-nominated author Ryan Barna, Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier tells the story of Fields’ four-decade recording career and constant reinventions. We hear his 1914 debut with a long-forgotten Irving Berlin number, follow along as he becomes one of the key voices and songwriters of World War I, then listen as he reinvents himself as a “hillbilly” during the country music boom of the ’20s and ’30s. The compilation ends with two remarkable selections: His emotional 1941 recording of “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” and a 1951 wire recording captured by record collector Dick Carty in which he reprises his most famous composition, “It’s a Long Way to Berlin, but We’ll Get There!” List price: $17.99
There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
Released: September 28, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5020 • UPC: 778632904743
Stung by critics who perceived spirituals as painful reminders of slavery, uplifted by the praise of royalty and world-renowned artists, John Wesley Work II toiled for three decades at Fisk University with single-minded determination to promulgate the good news of jubilee songcraft. Here for the first time his story is told in vivid detail by celebrated author Doug Seroff, accompanied by the 43 extant selections recorded by the Fisk Quartet when Work led the group-including all nine legendary Edison cylinders that feature Roland Hayes as second tenor and the four recitations of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry by James A. Myers. The selections are introduced by spoken excerpts from Rev. Jerome I. Wright, one of the last living Fisk students to have sung under John Work’s direction. Two CDs, more than 100 pages of history and illustrations, and recording notes by Tim Brooks, author of Lost Sounds, give voice to the bondsman’s hope and breath to the freedman’s courage. List price: $39.99
The Complete Victor Releases
Marion Harris
Released: December 9, 2000 • Catalogue: ARCH 5001A • UPC: 777215104600
Second edition (2005), featuring newly remastered sound, one bonus track, and expanded and enhanced 20-page booklet. 22 selections, recorded between 1916 and 1919, including one rejected take from 1917, and two final selections from 1927. Marion Harris was the first female vocalist to record songs with “jazz” and “blues” in their titles; she exemplifies the transition from the old school of gutsy ragtime singing to the newer, softer kind of delivery that was typical of female vocalists of the 1920s. List price: $16.49
Floating Down the River
The Heidelberg Quintet featuring Billy Murray
Released: May 27, 2003 • Catalogue: ARCH 5005 • UPC: 777215104631
Complete releases from 1912-1914, with two bonus tracks from 1910 before the ensemble took the name of the Heidelberg Quintet; 26 total songs, including three Edison 4-minute cylinders. Lead vocals by Billy Murray and countertenor Will Oakland. Features a 24-page booklet with previously unpublished notes on the group and a complete reprinting of the hitherto forgotten “Reminiscences of Early Talking Machine Days” by first tenor John Bieling, from The Talking Machine World in April 1914. List price: $16.49
The High Priestess of Jollity & The Southern Singer
May Irwin and Clarice Vance
Released: June 14, 2011 • Catalogue: ARCH 5015 • UPC: 778632904385
The High Priestess of Jollity & The Southern Singer brings together the complete recorded output of two early stars of the vaudeville stage: Clarice Vance and May Irwin. Though prominent on stage—and sheet music covers—both had very short recording careers, with Irwin’s output totalling 6 sides and Vance’s 15. This set presents these 21 recordings for the first time and tells the story of these two remarkable women. The package includes a 32-page, full-color booklet with biographical essays on each of women and a bounty of photographs and lush illustrations. List price: $16.99
Sweetheart of the A.E.F.
Elsie Janis
Released: May 12, 2009 • Catalogue: ARCH 5013 • UPC: 778632901681
With 24 tracks, Sweetheart of the AEF features the almost-complete acoustic-era output of Elsie Janis, a star of the stage who took her act to the soldiers on the front lines in World War I. Sweetheart of the AEF comes with a lavishly illustrated, 24-page full-color booklet with notes and scholarship by our late friend and collaborator, Allen G. Debus. List price: $16.49
Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer
Irving Kaufman
Released: December 6, 2005 • Catalogue: ARCH 5504 • UPC: 777215109469
Irving Kaufman, Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer represents Irving’s incredible 60-year span of activity, beginning from his first acoustic recordings in 1914 to the final cuts made in his home in August 1974. The booklet includes several rare photographs, some contributed by Irving’s family, and features detailed liner notes by Kaufman expert Ryan Barna, examining both the professional and personal life of this legendary performer. List price: $16.99
World-Famous Wizard of the Cornet
Bohumir Kryl
Released: September 25, 2012 • Catalogue: ARCH 5022 • UPC: 778632905931
Bohemian-born Bohumir Kryl made sounds with the cornet that audiences had never heard before and that no one had dared to try to record until he came along. He had the outsized ego to make sure he would not soon be forgotten, making his interpretations of the classic repertoire into standards along the way. World-Famous Wizard of the Cornet features 28 selections, recorded between 1901 and 1918, that showcase Kryl’s unique technical gifts. A 32-page full-color booklet is included that tells Kryl’s life story from his earliest days as a circus acrobat and sculptor. A must-have for musicians. List price: $16.99
The Sound of Vaudeville, Vol. 1
Eddie Morton
Released: October 4, 2003 • Catalogue: ARCH 5006 • UPC: 777215104648
28 songs from 1907-1910, recorded in Camden and New York, with a lavish 28-page booklet containing newly discovered biographical data and rare graphics. Includes all the early rare Victors and Columbias, as well as the Edison 4-minute cylinder of “A Singer Sang a Song,” and the Indestructible cylinder of “In the Right Church, but in the Wrong Pew.” The former “Singing Cop” from Philadelphia, Eddie Morton was a top stage performer for more than 20 years. List price: $16.49
Ed. Morton’s "Bit of Broadway"
Eddie Morton
Released: March 27, 2012 • Catalogue: ARCH 5017 • UPC: 778632905542
The Sound of Vaudeville, Vol. 2 covers the career of Eddie Morton from 1911 through 1917. He was one of the variety stage’s most important song pluggers of the era: if Eddie featured it, it would be a hit. All-time classics include “The Oceana Roll” and “Play That Barbershop Chord.” Don’t miss Morton’s own compositions, “Noodle Soup Rag” and “I’ve Got You, Steve!” Researcher Ryan Barna revisits the early life of Morton and fills in some gaps before taking us to the end of Eddie’s stage life and beyond, when he ran a restaurant on the Wildwood boardwalk called Ed. Morton’s “Bit of Broadway. List price: $16.49
Anthology: The Denver Nightingale
Billy Murray
Released: October 22, 2002 • Catalogue: ARCH 5501 • UPC: 656605931821
Newly remastered in 2018—sounds better than ever!
30 songs from 1903-1940 that provide a career retrospective of the most popular recording artist of the acoustic era. Includes the rare brown wax cylinder of “The Way to Kiss a Girl” from one of Billy’s first recording sessions for Columbia, and “It’s the Same Old Shillelagh,” peformed with Harry’s Tavern Band in his comeback of 1940. Features collaborations with Ada Jones, the American and Haydn Quartets, Aileen Stanley, Ed. Smalle, and Walter Scanlan. A thick 24-page booklet contains a biographical essay and song notes by Murray biographer Frank Hoffmann and a reminiscence of Murray by a man who knew him, Quentin Riggs! List price: $16.99
Echoes from Asbury Park
Arthur Pryor and His Band
Released: April 8, 2006 • Catalogue: ARCH 5008 • UPC: 777215110038
One of the premier conductors of the early 20th century, Pryor was second in reputation only to Sousa, and his band traveled the world spreading Pryor’s fame for ragtime, classical adaptations, and masterful musical precision. Guided by trombonist and Pryor expert David Sager, we have assembled these 25 recordings into two simulated "concerts," presenting them the way that visitors to New Jersey’s resort spot, Asbury Park, might have heard them in the first decade of the last century. List price: $16.49
Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894-1917
Dan W. Quinn
Released: June 16, 2015 • Catalogue: ARCH 5505 • UPC: 778632907133
Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894-1917 features 30 selections, taken from rare cylinders and discs, that highlight Dan W. Quinn’s quarter-century in the studio, featuring the up-to-date comic numbers he was best known for, along with sentimental ballads and ragtime songs he helped establish as standards. The 52-page booklet inside the digipak presents original research and stunning new discoveries about the man and his career, illustrated with many previously unpublished photos. List price: $17.99
The Indestructible Uncle Josh
Cal Stewart
Released: June 11, 2013 • Catalogue: ARCH 5009 • UPC: 778632906204
A humorist who spent 22 years waxing his Uncle Josh stories, Cal Stewart was the first performer whose stage appearances were celebrated by reference to his records rather than the other way around. In his famous role as “rube” Uncle Josh Weathersby, he entertained millions of listeners with tales of his antics both in New York City and at home in Punkin Center. The Indestructible Uncle Josh provides a snapshot of Stewart’s repertoire at the height of his career, featuring all 25 of his 2-minute cylinders for the Indestructible company and a choice sampling of his work on U-S Everlasting cylinders. The package includes a 28-page booklet with notes by Stewart expert and scholar Patrick Feaster. List price: $16.49
Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922
Sophie Tucker
Released: August 25, 2009 • Catalogue: ARCH 5010 • UPC: 778632901674
Gathered for the first time, here are Sophie Tucker’s earliest recordings, from Edison wax cylinders and impossibly rare discs, chronicling the rough and ready rise of this lasting icon of the double entendre. A master of self-marketing, Tucker learned long before she became known as The Last of the Red Hot Mamas that the key to her success lie in controlling–and changing as needed–the facts of her personal story. Documentarians Susan and Lloyd Ecker unravel all the loose ends and contradictory threads comprising the early years of one of the 20th century’s most colorful stage personalities. With a hardback book-binding and 72 full-color pages, this beautiful package features dozens of illustrations from Sophie’s personal scrapbooks, a foreword by Michael Feinstein, and a personal remembrance by Carol Channing. List price: $23.99
Pennant-Winning Battery of Songland
Van and Schenck
Released: February 7, 2012 • Catalogue: ARCH 5016 • UPC: 778632905535
“Pennant-Winning Battery of Songland” compiles the first recordings made by Jazz Age superstars Gus Van and Joe Schenck. The collection features 28 selections recorded between 1916 and 1918 and includes a 28-page color booklet with biographical notes by vaudevillian and author Trav S.D. that trace their rise from boyhood friends performing in Brooklyn to vaudeville superstars. The booklet also includes full discographical information for the featured selections and lots of images of both the duo and the recordings. List price: $16.49
Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920
Various Artists
Released: April 20, 2010 • Catalogue: ARCH 5451 • UPC: 778632901995
Featuring 32 rare tracks that go all the way back to 1892, Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920 tells the story of the clarinet’s instrumental role in the early recording industry. The set includes a 24 page booklet with notes by clarinet expert Stan Stanford and rare images and photos. List price: $16.99
The Mike and Meyer Files
Joe Weber and Lew Fields
Released: May 31, 2019 • Catalogue: ARCH 5023 • UPC: 868490000265
With their potent mixture of slapstick and fractured German dialect comedy, the pioneering vaudeville duo of Joe Weber and Lew Fields can rightly be called the granddaddy of all American comedy teams. They conquered Broadway with a series of hit burlesque comedies that pointed the way towards “Forbidden Broadway” and Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” and laid the foundation for later comedy teams the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, and the Three Stooges. Now for the first time, all of the pair’s comedy recordings have been masterfully restored and compiled in one collection that tells the story of this hugely influential duo. Includes a 32-page booklet with new scholarship by celebrated authors Trav S.D., L. Marc Fields, and Richard Martin. List price: $16.99
The Early Years, 1901-1909
Bert Williams
Released: August 21, 2004 • Catalogue: ARCH 5004 • UPC: 777215106611
The first volume of The Complete Bert Williams, featuringthe legendary comedian’s rarest records. 31 tracks from 1901-1909, including several with George Walker: 15 tracks from their 1901 sessions and a further 16 tracks from sessions in 1906 and following. Five selections are featured in both their 7- and 10-inch disc versions, and the collection includes all four of Williams’ 2-minute cylinders, one 3-minute cylinder, and one rejected take from 1906. The 32-page full-color deluxe booklet features illustrations as rare as the records, with notes co-authored by renowned scholar Allen G. Debus and also reprints in its entirety George Walker’s 1906 reminiscences about the beginnings of Williams and Walker in “The Real ‘Coon’ on the American Stage.” List price: $17.49
The Middle Years, 1910-1918
Bert Williams
Released: August 15, 2002 • Catalogue: ARCH 5003 • UPC: 656605928920
The second volume of The Complete Bert Williams. 26 songs from 1910-1918, recorded in New York, including two monologuesthat were held for release until after Bert’s death: “How? Fried” and “You Can’t Do Nothing Till Martin Gets Here.” 24-page booklet with rare graphics, and notes co-written by Allen G. Debus. Also features the entire article “The Comic Side of Trouble,” by Bert Williams, published in 1918 by the American Magazine. List price: $16.49
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His Final Releases, 1919-1922
Bert Williams
Released: July 2, 2001 • Catalogue: ARCH 5002 • UPC: 656605918129
The third volume of The Complete Bert Williams. 24 songs from 1919-1922, recorded in New York and Chicago, including both “Elder Eatmore” sermons. Booklet now (2005) expanded to 20 pages, with notes on Williams’ final years, sheet music illustrations, and other rare graphics. Sound of some noisier tracks now improved. List price: $16.49
The Famous Tramp Comedian
Nat M. Wills
Released: May 16, 2007 • Catalogue: ARCH 5011 • UPC: 778632900363
26 tracks and a thoroughly entertaining 24-page booklet featuring a new biographical sketch by vaudeville historian Trav S.D. Although he was popular on stage for more than two decades, playing the scruffy but urbane tramp, Wills’ recorded output totaled only 26 distinct titles, and they are all here, compiled for the first time ever and sounding like they were recorded yesterday. List price: $16.49
Together and Alone
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
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Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
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Anthology: The Original King of Pop
Henry Burr
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Henry Burr
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Anthology: America's Favorite Entertainers
Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
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Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
Before Phil and Don Everly, before Simon and Garfunkel, long before Hall and Oates . . . the most popular recording duo over the first quarter of the 20th century was the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan. Dubbed “America’s Favorite Entertainers” as they crisscrossed America in the late 1910s and early 1920s promoting Edison’s superior talking machines, Collins and Harlan came face to face with the thousands of ordinary people who bought the records that became the comical soundtrack of a generation. They represented the best and the worst of popular culture: advancing the career of Jewish émigré Irving Berlin and Black songwriters such as Chris Smith, W.C. Handy, and Shelton Brooks, while also perpetuating racist stereotypes. The issues, as usual, are thorny, but Archeophone tackles them with care and honesty. GRAMMY-recognized authors Ryan Barna and Richard Martin present the clear-eyed but accurate case of these two rough-and-ready unlikely partners who also became friends and took the phonograph by storm. Over 29 tracks, we lead you from 1902 to 1924, depicting a story that has never been told in LP form until now. Fantastic sound, too—you won't believe how great these records sound! Read more
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Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1
Guido Deiro
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Guido Deiro
List price: $34.99
Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2
Guido Deiro
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Guido Deiro
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Complete Recorded Works, Volume 3
Guido Deiro
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Guido Deiro
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Complete Recorded Works, Volume 4
Guido Deiro
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Guido Deiro
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Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier
Arthur Fields
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Arthur Fields
Wanting to run away from home since age eleven, Abraham Finkelstein was always after something. He masked his Jewish background by adopting the stage name Arthur Fields and launched a long and prolific career as a songwriter, vaudevillian, recording artist, radio personality, and music publisher. Featuring 26 tracks and a 32-page booklet with notes by Grammy-nominated author Ryan Barna, Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier tells the story of Fields’ four-decade recording career and constant reinventions. We hear his 1914 debut with a long-forgotten Irving Berlin number, follow along as he becomes one of the key voices and songwriters of World War I, then listen as he reinvents himself as a “hillbilly” during the country music boom of the ’20s and ’30s. The compilation ends with two remarkable selections: His emotional 1941 recording of “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” and a 1951 wire recording captured by record collector Dick Carty in which he reprises his most famous composition, “It’s a Long Way to Berlin, but We’ll Get There!" Read more
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There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
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Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
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The Complete Victor Releases
Marion Harris
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Marion Harris
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Floating Down the River
The Heidelberg Quintet featuring Billy Murray
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The Heidelberg Quintet featuring Billy Murray
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The High Priestess of Jollity & The Southern Singer
May Irwin and Clarice Vance
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May Irwin and Clarice Vance
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Sweetheart of the A.E.F.
Elsie Janis
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Elsie Janis
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Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer
Irving Kaufman
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Irving Kaufman
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World-Famous Wizard of the Cornet
Bohumir Kryl
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Bohumir Kryl
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The Sound of Vaudeville, Vol. 1
Eddie Morton
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Eddie Morton
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Ed. Morton's "Bit of Broadway"
Eddie Morton
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Eddie Morton
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Anthology: The Denver Nightingale
Billy Murray
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Billy Murray
30 songs from 1903-1940 that provide a career retrospective of the most popular recording artist of the acoustic era. Includes the rare brown wax cylinder of "The Way to Kiss a Girl" from one of Billy's first recording sessions for Columbia, and "It's the Same Old Shillelagh," peformed with Harry's Tavern Band in his comeback of 1940. Features collaborations with Ada Jones, the American and Haydn Quartets, Aileen Stanley, Ed. Smalle, and Walter Scanlan. A thick 24-page booklet contains a biographical essay and song notes by Murray biographer Frank Hoffmann and a reminiscence of Murray by a man who knew him, Quentin Riggs! Read more
List price: $16.99
Echoes from Asbury Park
Arthur Pryor and His Band
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Arthur Pryor and His Band
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Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894-1917
Dan W. Quinn
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Dan W. Quinn
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The Indestructible Uncle Josh
Cal Stewart
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Cal Stewart
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Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922
Sophie Tucker
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Sophie Tucker
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Pennant-Winning Battery of Songland
Van and Schenck
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Van and Schenck
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Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920
Various Artists
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Various Artists
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The Mike and Meyer Files
Joe Weber and Lew Fields
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Joe Weber and Lew Fields
With their potent mixture of slapstick and fractured German dialect comedy, the pioneering vaudeville duo of Joe Weber and Lew Fields can rightly be called the granddaddy of all American comedy teams. They conquered Broadway with a series of hit burlesque comedies that pointed the way towards "Forbidden Broadway" and Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and laid the foundation for later comedy teams the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, and the Three Stooges. Now for the first time, all of the pair's comedy recordings have been masterfully restored and compiled in one collection that tells the story of this hugely influential duo. Includes a 32-page booklet with new scholarship by celebrated authors Trav S.D., L. Marc Fields, and Richard Martin. Read more
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The Early Years, 1901-1909
Bert Williams
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Bert Williams
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The Middle Years, 1910-1918
Bert Williams
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Bert Williams
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His Final Releases, 1919-1922
Bert Williams
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Bert Williams
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The Famous Tramp Comedian
Nat M. Wills
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Nat M. Wills
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| Title | Artist | Catalogue | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Together and Alone | Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth | ARCH 5007 | $27.99 | Currently Out of Stock |
| Anthology: The Original King of Pop | Henry Burr | ARCH 5502 | $16.99 | |
| Anthology: America's Favorite Entertainers | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | ARCH 5507 | $16.99 | |
| Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1 | Guido Deiro | ARCH 5012 | $34.99 | |
| Complete Recorded Works, Volume 2 | Guido Deiro | ARCH 5014 | $16.49 | |
| Complete Recorded Works, Volume 3 | Guido Deiro | ARCH 5018 | $16.49 | |
| Complete Recorded Works, Volume 4 | Guido Deiro | ARCH 5019 | $16.49 | |
| Anthology: Singer, Songwriter, Soldier | Arthur Fields | ARCH 5506 | $17.99 | |
| There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916 | Fisk University Jubilee Quartet | ARCH 5020 | $39.99 | |
| The Complete Victor Releases | Marion Harris | ARCH 5001A | $16.49 | waitlist |
| Floating Down the River | The Heidelberg Quintet featuring Billy Murray | ARCH 5005 | $16.49 | |
| The High Priestess of Jollity & The Southern Singer | May Irwin and Clarice Vance | ARCH 5015 | $16.99 | |
| Sweetheart of the A.E.F. | Elsie Janis | ARCH 5013 | $16.49 | |
| Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer | Irving Kaufman | ARCH 5504 | $16.99 | |
| World-Famous Wizard of the Cornet | Bohumir Kryl | ARCH 5022 | $16.99 | |
| The Sound of Vaudeville, Vol. 1 | Eddie Morton | ARCH 5006 | $16.49 | |
| Ed. Morton's "Bit of Broadway" | Eddie Morton | ARCH 5017 | $16.49 | |
| Anthology: The Denver Nightingale | Billy Murray | ARCH 5501 | $16.99 | |
| Echoes from Asbury Park | Arthur Pryor and His Band | ARCH 5008 | $16.49 | waitlist |
| Anthology: The King of Comic Singers, 1894-1917 | Dan W. Quinn | ARCH 5505 | $17.99 | |
| The Indestructible Uncle Josh | Cal Stewart | ARCH 5009 | $16.49 | |
| Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922 | Sophie Tucker | ARCH 5010 | $23.99 | |
| Pennant-Winning Battery of Songland | Van and Schenck | ARCH 5016 | $16.49 | |
| Masters of the Clarinet, 1892-1920 | Various Artists | ARCH 5451 | $16.99 | |
| The Mike and Meyer Files | Joe Weber and Lew Fields | ARCH 5023 | $16.99 | |
| The Early Years, 1901-1909 | Bert Williams | ARCH 5004 | $17.49 | waitlist |
| The Middle Years, 1910-1918 | Bert Williams | ARCH 5003 | $16.49 | Currently Out of Stock |
| His Final Releases, 1919-1922 | Bert Williams | ARCH 5002 | $16.49 | |
| The Famous Tramp Comedian | Nat M. Wills | ARCH 5011 | $16.49 |