Wow. I'm trying to appreciate how much research went into this compilation. Impressive!

Some great stuff for auch an important day in history! Crazy to think that it was just a bit over 100 years ago.... Feels so close yet so long from our present time, haha.

It sounds very Swedish. How ever, ”Blåkulla” is a ferrytail island that wichies fly to on their broomsticks during easter so Halloween is a couple of month away.😊 A nice melodi thou. Pardon my spelling, love from Sweden!👍💕🎶

Quite wonderful; it's great (and informative) to hear performers of the actual era playing pieces we "know." Thank you! For another perspective, we recorded the original 1917 orchestration of "Some Shape" in 2001: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e36Xdn6Zf7iqircsi=bHt82CGq7Gg9BhMd

Back when I was weeks away from birth.

new recording

I've never felt that this piece "worked," even when played by Horowitz. Maybe an arrangement for two pianos would increase its effectiveness, especially in the final pages where the tremolos would then not need to be constantly "interrupted" (so annoyingly obvious in the solo version).

The biggest question I've got to ask is the fact that a Vampire as an attractive woman is a Halloween subject for a waltz? I'm pretty perplexed, but the music, I'm not complaining about.

Sounds crystal clear !

Quite fine, indeed! Thank you.

Thank you 😊

Shortly before he died, Mike Bernard did a radio show with the other performers he was working with at Bill’s Gay Nineties Cafe. It was the 1935 New Year’s Eve broadcast for the American Can Company. I don’t think there is a recording of this broadcast, though I hope it surfaces one day.

Great music. Thanks for the detailed research!

Amazing, thanks.

This isn't really a medley of Berlin's tunes. It's a composition of his titled "They've Got Me Doin' It Now," and the tune includes quotes from many of Berlin's hits. I have a feeling that he composed this for himself to perform when he went to England.

Nice performance

"Ragtime Violin" is at the beginning, and "Everybody's Doing It Now" is in this nice little medley, if I'm not mistaken 😊

Irving Berlin was definitely something special.

Sounds like perfect music for a silent Harold Lloyd film

Thank you for uploading this! Imagine hearing it for the first time in 1938. It's so beautiful.

Thank you 😊

An organ! Very interesting. Where do you find these?

This is amazing

This is a tango most bonita. 😅

CORRECTION: I have accidentally found an earlier version of J.S. Bach's 'Prelude & Fugue in C Major'. In 1905, Emma Albani sang a record titled 'Ave Maria', in which the piano accompaniment is unmistakably playing the 'Prelude' section. You can find this recording here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKbCloKHqqZ8n8ksi=4PLuW-mcpgZqokNM

ear hurts

The ambitious scope and scale of this video is impressive. It could easily have been 15 separate posts. There were a few I know are the first of each piece to be recorded, and many I was surprised at that I was unaware of. Good job on a well-researched project!

I am impressed with the quality of the first recordings. I can just imagine the individuals in the bands being able to hear what they had played. To know that their work was somehow preserved for people to listen to again and again must have been awesome. If they only knew that we would be continuing to hear their actual performances in 2024!

Phenomenal! It's wonderful to be able to listen to history like this! I confess this is the most I've ever heard of some of these pieces. Are those the opening notes of the French anthem "La Marseillaise" I hear at 11:23?

Great disc! We seem to share similar interests ... looking forward to more in the future

Arthur Pryor’s Band was always top notch! Great disc

Overlooked perhaps because it's a Victorian salon waltz rather than one of Arndt's original novelties. One must follow along with the simple published sheet music to truly appreciate all that Arndt adds in this elegant performance.

The first minute is pretty much inaudible, but the last half is delightful.

Nice document

I'm going to chop some vegetables.

I remember listening to this on Edwards' website years ago. A superb performance, and with regards to Lamb I can only say that the US can take pride in one of the best composers I've come across, and this tune is no exception.

❤Billy murry ❤ delightful man and voice ❤

Great selection, but the music is nearly inaudible.

this is true

In addition to his audio recordings, Melville Ellis also made some rolls for American Piano Co. which were issued on their Rythmodik label and I think also with expression coding on the "Stoddard-Ampico" and "Ampico-Artigraphic" labels. A few *might* have also been issued on the "SoloStyle" label. From the Vernon Brown / Richard J. Howe "Rythmodik Rollography" published in installments in the AMICA Bulletin magazine (mainly in the February/March, 1975 and April, 1975 issues; with prologues and announcements of the project in the September, 1972 and April, 1973 Bulletins; and a couple brief addendas in the May, 1975 and October, 1978 issues), I know of the following Rythmodik issues of Melville Ellis performances (listed at the end here). There may be others as well, since these rollographies are not yet complete and have several number-gaps of unknown (to the authors at the time) rolls. Thus, this rollography needs help being finished (I have compiled what was published so far into one PDF for ease of reference). Many, or all, of these performances may have been issued as Ampico reproducing rolls as well, with expression coding. These early and very rare 1912-1915 Ampico issues have a REVERSED number system, where the entire number (with prefix and suffix) is BACKWARDS but otherwise the same. The forward-number means an 88-note-only issue (Rythmodik or *maybe* SoloStyle); the reversed-number means it is Ampico, and the label would read "Stoddard-Ampico" or "Ampico-Artigraphic". If one of these early so-labeled Ampico rolls is found (of any kind of music played by anyone), it should be saved and scanned in any condition; all these early Ampicos are very rare, and some of them are the only known existing copy, since very few Ampico pianos of any kind were sold before about 1919 and thus few rolls for them were sold. Starting about 1916, Ampico more or less abandoned the 'reversed Rythmodik number' idea, and inaugurated its familiar "Classical" numbering series, although I think some pop performances may have crept into some of the earlier issues in this series. Rythmodik / SoloStyle roll numbers might seem slightly confusing until one realizes there is an opening letter PREFIX which is a price code (letters A to G in the early green box rolls; a more complicated system in the later brown box rolls); and a single closing number SUFFIX which is a roll size code (numbers 2 to 9). So the actual roll number, which in the instrumental (non word) roll series runs from 1 to about 2045, is sandwiched in-between the letter prefix and number suffix. In 1917 Rythmodik inaugurated their word roll series, which were numbered in the 10,000 series (with additional letter prefix and number suffix as before). These word roll numbers ran from 10,000 to about 10,718. In 1921, the American Piano Co. changed direction, decided to concentrate on reproducing rolls exclusively and drop 88-note rolls, sold out what was left of Rythmodik (remaining stock and supplies) to QRS, and from thereon made only Ampico rolls. In the following (not complete) list of known Melville Ellis piano rolls, I have included the original Rythmodik number first including prefix and suffix; then the actual roll number in the numerical series is in brackets after it for clarification. Finally I have given the title, composer (in parenthesis) and pianist. 1912: D1805 [180] : My Sumurun Girl (Hirsch) - Ellis J1863 [186] : Serenade Espagnole (Ellis) - Ellis A1892 [189] : Serenade Coquette (Ellis) - Ellis J2104 [210] : Cinderella Waltz (Ellis) - Ellis A3782 [378] : Air de Ballet (Herbert) - Ellis A3982 [398] : Because (d'Hardelot) - Ellis 1913: Z5034 [503] : Firefly Selections (Friml): 1. Love is Like a Firefly 2. Giannina Mia; 3. When a Maid Comes Knocking At Your Heart; 4. Sympathy - Ellis Mr. Ellis seems to have left the company (or at least no longer been a guest pianist there) sometime in 1913-1914. These are the rolls we know about. I am not yet sure whether he made rolls for other companies or not. I cannot recall seeing or hearing of any, but he *might* have. Since early Rythmodik info is spotty and needs more research and gap-filling (mainly from extant rolls; but also from exceedingly rare roll bulletins and catalogues, if extant), then there could be one or more addtional rolls by him in this period, not yet known.

Thanks for sharing this rare record! Melville Ellis was an early Broadway theatrical pianist who I believe also worked as a costume designer and set designer. He died very early and fairly young (I think around 1917) and so is only dimly remembered today, probably most prominently by George Gershwin who mentions Ellis in the list of a half-dozen or so pianists in the introduction to his "Song Book" (1932) which influenced Mr. Gershwin in some way, and who in his opinion, helped advance American popular piano playing in a forward direction. Mr. Ellis only made three known solo audio recordings (all for Columbia): "Gypsy Love" mx 19751, issued on A1082; this one, mx 19752, issued both on A1082 and also on A1160 as here; and "In the Shadows", mx 19753, issued on the flip side of this record (it would be nice to hear that later if you haven't already put it up). Columbia A1160 must be more relatively common than A1082 (although I can attest that both records are quite rare), since I have heard both sides of this record at another friend-collectors' house (and I think elsewhere online), but have never heard (or found) "Gypsy Love".