I Woke up with the A side of this record in my head. It’s an official version of the same song I posted from that Rockaways Playland record a few posts ago. I realized I had the disc of it. I guess that’s why I knew it.

Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders Perform I Can’t Give You Anything But Love b/w Johnny Johnson and His Statler Pensylvanians Sweet Lorraine

1928 Victor 21514-A/21514-B

You Know The Liberty Bell March as the Theme from Monty Python.. Here we have it on an Edison Diamond Disc.

Edison Diamond Discs were Edison’s attempt at joining the flat disc market after sticking to cylinders for a long time. They are big heavy quarter inch thick discs that need to be played on a special type of phonograph because the waves in the grooves move up and down rather than side to side. You can play it on a modern DJ type turntable by switching the polarization of a stereo recording (either by physically swapping the little wires in the stylus or by using sound editing software) and converting it to mono, which makes a lot of the noise cancel itself out and improves the fidelity. I’ve done all that for you here, but it’s still a scratchy old record.

Here’s The New York Military Band Performing The Liberty Bell March b/w At a Georgia Camp Meeting

1917/1916 Edison Diamond Disc #50636 L/R

you can see the label is actually etched into the surface of the record:

Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra perform Hawaiian Dreams b/w Honolulu Moon (Vocal Refrain by Johnny Marvin)

1927 Victor 20596-A/B

Just a peppy Western swing number on a worn 78.

Al Dexter and his Troopers perform Rosalita b/w Pistol Packin’ Mama

1941, Okeh 6708