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Sousa's Band
1,696 listeners
Band led by John Phillip Sousa starting in the 1890's. They had a number of successful early recordings. Sousa's Band was rather famous at the…
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Harry Macdonough
732 listeners
John Scantlebury Macdonald (May 30, 1871–September 26, 1931) was a Canadian singer and recording executive. Under the pseudonym Harry Macdonough,…
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Walter Van Brunt
957 listeners
Walter Van Brunt (April 22, 1892 - April 11, 1971), said to have been Thomas Edison’s favorite tenor, began his recording career at the age of 17.…
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Len Spencer
1,578 listeners
Len Spencer (February 12, 1867 – December 15, 1914) was an early American recording artist. He recorded numerous popular songs in the pre-1920s,…
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Gérard Pierron & Gaston Couté
1,885 listeners
Gérard Pierron, born in 1945, is a formidable interpreter. He sets poems to music and sings them accompanied by some of the best musicians,…
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New York Military Band
492 listeners
Previously known as the Edison Military Band, became the New York Military Band in 1908. Recorded prolifically for the Edison label.
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Indestructible Military Band
104 listeners
Their name comes from the fact that they were a "military band" (a popular type of band during the 1900s/1910s), and that they recorded for the…
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Stephen Collins Foster
843 listeners
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United…
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Gilmore's Band
96 listeners
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore was born on December 25, 1829 in Ballygar, County Galway, Ireland.
After accompanying his father to a protest rally…
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Ruperto Chapi
536 listeners
Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (27 March 1851 - 25 March 1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores.…
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Edison Symphony Orchestra
249 listeners
They were an orchestra which recorded for Edison Records in the early 20th century....
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Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan
624 listeners
Arthur Collins, the leading Minstrel-style dialect-comedy singer of the early 1900s, was born on February 7, 1864 in Philadelphia.
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Tomas Breton
334 listeners
Tomás Bretón (December 29, 1850 – December 2, 1923) was a Spanish musician and composer.
He gained renown as a result of the success of his…
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Will F. Denny
218 listeners
One of the first artists to record commercially (meaning his songs were issued on cylinder recordings, pre-recorded and ready to buy...the…
