Turns out I had more than I thought, including two duplicates (Saxophobia and Kitten on the Keys).

I've heard a few of these songs on YouTube, but I've never gotten to listen to any of these records because I don't currently own a Diamond Disc player. (Yes, I know you can configure a stereo turntable with a 78 rpm setting to play them as well... but I don't have one of those either).

As a result, I'm not 100% sure what I've got here--hence the desire to catalog. I got most of them either in boxed lots of records or because I came across them at the local thrift store and wanted to rescue them. A few are a bit rough around the edges, but most are in very good condition. Any thoughts on which might be worthwhile and which are just rubbish would be appreciated.

(Sorry if the formatting is a bit glitchy; I copy/pasted it from an Excel spreadsheet. Please note that each side is listed as a line item. Items with a reference of xxxx# indicate a disc which did not appear to contain a record number. I also had to guess at a few of the sides, as some of the earlier records didn't always indicate an L or R side).

Reference Label Side Title Artist
50054 Edison R The Two Poets Golden & Hughes
50054 Edison L Bear’s Oil Golden & Hughes
50133 Edison R The International Rag Brass Orchestra
50133 Edison L The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Medley Turkey Trot Brass Orchestra
50304 Edison R Adeste Fideles Sodero’s Band
50304 Edison L Hallelujah Chorus Sodero’s Band
50369 Edison L Medley of Hawaiian Airs - No. 2 Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra
50369 Edison R On the Beach Medley Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra
50428 Edison L The Missouri Waltz Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
50428 Edison R Poor Butterfly Jaudas’ Band
50446 Edison L Hello, My Dearie Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
50446 Edison R For the Freedom of the World Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
50465 Edison L Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose Manuel Romain
50465 Edison R If You Had All the Time in the World Manuel Romain
50473 Edison L The Tickle Toe - Going Up Vernon Dalhart
50473 Edison R I’ll Take You Back to Italy - Jack O’Lantern Ada Jones & Billy Murray
50498 Edison L Just Blue The All Star Trio
50498 Edison R Smiles Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
50553 Edison L Saxophobia Yerkes Saxophone Sextet
50553 Edison R More Candy Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
50553 Edison L Saxophobia Yerkes Saxophone Sextet
50553 Edison R More Candy Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
50554 Edison R My Cairo Love Green Bros. Novelty Orchestra
50554 Edison L The Vamp Green Bros. Novelty Orchestra
50599 Edison L Uncle Josh and the Honey Bees Cal Stewart
50599 Edison R Uncle Josh and Aunt Nancy Put Up the Kitchen Stove Cal Stewart
50606 Edison L Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet Helen Clark & Joseph Phillips
50606 Edison R Daisies Won’t Tell Helen Clark & Joseph Phillips
50656 Edison L Alexandria Max Fells’ Della Robbia Orchestra
50656 Edison R Miami Max Fells’ Della Robbia Orchestra
50666 Edison L Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee! (You’re the Only Girl for Me) Premier Quartet
50666 Edison R The Hen and the Cow (a Dream of the Past) Billy Murray
50685 Edison R Ben Hur Chariot Race March Brass Orchestra
50685 Edison L Belle of New York March / 2nd Reg’t Conn. NC March Brass Orchestra
50739 Edison L Sally - Medley Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra
50739 Edison R O-H-I-O - Medley Max Fells’ Della Robbia Orchestra
50740 Edison L Arabia Green Bros. Novelty Band
50740 Edison R Do You Ever Think of Me Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra
50799 Edison R The Sidewalk Orlando’s Orchestra
50799 Edison L Persia Orlando’s Orchestra
50824 Edison L I Wonder Where My Sweet Sweet Daddy’s Gone Earl Fuller’s New York Orchestra
50824 Edison R Just Because Earl Fuller’s New York Orchestra
50826 Edison L Cho-Cho-San Conrad’s Orchestra
50826 Edison R One Kiss Conrad’s Orchestra
50898 Edison R Monastery Bells Waltz Henry W. Lange
50898 Edison L Kitten on the Keys Zez Confrey
50907 Edison R Say Persianna Say Phil Ohman’s Dance Orchestra
50907 Edison L Angel Child Broadway Dance Orchestra
50932 Edison L Lola Lo Lanin’s Orchestra
50932 Edison R Jimmy Club de Vingt Orchestra
50941 Edison R When June Comes Along with a Song Broadway Dance Orchestra
50941 Edison L We Two Kaplan’s Melodists
50964 Edison R Do It Again Harry Raderman’s Orchestra
50964 Edison L Teasin’ Vincent Lopez Orchestra
50983 Edison L Suez - Oriental Fox Trot Romance Broadway Dance Orchestra
50983 Edison R Romany Love Broadway Dance Orchestra
51037 Edison L Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses Ernest L. Stevens’ Trio
51037 Edison R Hot Lips Ernest L. Stevens’ Trio
51080 Edison L Jimmy Joseph Knecht’s Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra
51080 Edison R Kiss Mama Kiss Papa Kaplan’s Melodists
51089 Edison L Frolic of the Coons Fred Van Eps
51089 Edison R Lonesome Mama Blues Fred Van Eps
51222 Edison L T’ain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness if I Do Charles A. Matson’s Creole Serenaders
51222 Edison R I Love Me (I’m Wild About Myself) Broadway Dance Orchestra
51229 Edison R I’ve Got the Yes! We Have No Banana Blues The Jazz-o-Harmonists
51229 Edison L Ach! Louie! Atlantic Dance Orchestra
51343 Edison L Don’t Blame It All on Me Tommy Monaco’s Orchestra
51343 Edison R Spain Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra
51353 Edison R Driftwood Harry Raderman’s Dance Orchestra
51353 Edison L Love Is Just a Gamble (Take Another Chance) Nathan Clantz and His Orchestra
51361 Edison R The Wreck on the Southern Old 97 Vernon Dalhart
51361 Edison L I Wasn’t Scared, But I Jst Thought That I Had Better Go Ernest Hare
51379 Edison R Lonely Little Melody Atlantic Dance Orchestra
51379 Edison L My Dream Girl Atlantic Dance Orchestra
51502 Edison R Turkey in the Straw The Blue Ridge Duo
51502 Edison L Susie Ann The Blue Ridge Duo
80412 Edison L Cleopatra Polka Bohumir Kryl
80412 Edison R Egyptia - Characteristic Intermezzo Peerless Orchestra
80456 Edison L Nadja - Oriental Intermezzo Peerless Orchestra
80456 Edison R The Passion Dance (an Oriental Fantasy) Peerless Orchestra
80791 Edison R Coriolan Overture - Part 1 American Concert Orchestra
80791 Edison L Coriolan Overture - Part 2 American Concert Orchestra
82295 Edison L Amoureuse Anna Case
82295 Edison R The Valley of Laughter Anna Case
xxxx1 Edison L Somewhere in Hawaii Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra
xxxx1 Edison R Kiss Me Again Waltz Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra
xxxx2 Edison L City of Dreams Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
xxxx2 Edison R Beautiful Ohio Waltz Jaudas’ Society Orchestra
xxxx3 Edison R Jazbo Jazz Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band
xxxx3 Edison L Frivolity George Hamilton Green

Hi. These are all common titles of no great shakes, but, a number of them I would call good titles. Fairly common stuff, but, some very good. Some not great.
There are two I'd like to have. One is Kitten on the keys.
Other is:
50964 Edison L Teasin’ Vincent Lopez Orchestra
I have side R on cylinder. I like it.
I have the diamond disc, but, it's not playable with major lam cracks.
If you'd consider trading, or, selling those, please pm me.
Otherwise, some of them are very good, albeit common titles.
I have a number of them, though alot of them I don't have.
Great job on them....
I've been wanting to catalog mine for years.
If you lived closer, I'd swap a machine to you.
I have one extra I could get rid of.
Bill Cahill

Interesting list of music titles. I have some DD records and a DD player. You probably know that Edison DD was recorded at 81 RPM and playing one on a modified cartridge 78 turntable makes them a bit--sluggish unless your t/table has a speed control adjustment.
Some of the DD records I have seen would be "politically incorrect" today. Wonder if that makes them more collectible?

Harold

Hi, Harold. Officially, for the record, according to Edison records, the speed is 80 rpm.
Not that 81 is much diff. Not noticeble, says I.
Just informational.
Bill Cahill

Actually I see very few that I personally would call rubbish. Apart from the Hawaiian orchestra & Saxaphone sextet recordings, and some of the band "waltz" recordings, the others I would play (and enjoy) on a regular basis.
I'm not a great fan of Helen Clark, but I quite like a lot of her duet recordings, and marches aren't exactly my cup of tea either, but there are a lot of other collectors who enjoy them, & I have to admit that some of my Edison march records were well recorded & sound fantastic.
Generally speaking, discs in the 80-82,000 series have a very limited fan base, as these were more classical/traditional recordings, but I've found many of these I have to listen to before desiding whether they are crap or not. Most are fairly boring, but others are real gems.
Most of your 50/51,000 popular series records look great. You've got a lot of good jazz & dance orchestra recordings, and artists like Billy Murray, Cal Stewart, Golden & Hughes, and Van Eps are still popular with collectors today.
I think most would be $5-$10 discs, and a few perhaps a little more.

Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. I have been able to find about half the recordings either on YouTube or the UCSB Cylinder Preservation Project, but the rest sit silent until I can find a good deal on a DD player.

I like Harry Raderman and Fred Van Eps, Vernon Dalhart is a bit hit-or-miss for me, the Green Bros. stuff is fun, the Zez Confrey record is one I specifically sought out, and most of the others I'm not as familiar with. I know classical tends to have little value, but the Coriolan Overture is one I chose because I really like the piece (I am a violinist, after all). The Creole Singers also seems to be a stand-out title. I didn't choose any of the Hawaiian stuff; it all came as part of boxed lots.

I got them from three sources: a couple of eBay boxed lots, the local thrift store, and a local oddities shop (Viracocha

As I've mentioned, my goal is to find an oak C-250 for the living room. Someone in the east bay was selling one for $80 (!) back in January, but never responded to my emails, and it had been sold by the time I called. The only ones I've seen pop up in the last few months have been dramatically overpriced, so the wait continues.

Meanwhile, I'm going to catalog my cylinder collection, then my 78s, and if I have the energy, my LPs. The cylinders shouldn't be too hard, as there are only 9 4-minute cylinders - including one modern release - and twentyish 2-minute. The 78s will be a bit daunting, as I have a bookcase and a half full of them, and I probably have a comparable number of LPs.

I hope we don't have to move any time soon...

[quote="Bill Cahill"]Hi, Harold. Officially, for the record, according to Edison records, the speed is 80 rpm.
Not that 81 is much diff. Not noticeble, says I.
Just informational.
Bill Cahill [/quote]

Thanks Bill for correct speed. I stand corrected. Slipping memory I guess.

Harold

Not to worry. If I had a penny for everything I've forgotten in just the past 26 years I'd be a very wealthy man, now.....
Bill Cahill

Almost done with my cylinders as well. I expect to have a list of those (along with videos of all of them playing) up in the next day or two.