Is it worth taking an inventory of 100 diamond disk records?

[shopdoc]

I keep being told that disks are worthless. Is that true for diamond disks too?

The 100 disks are dad's personal collection, as opposed to the inventory from the antique business. So I'm guessing he kept the best. If I do decide to look through them, are there any that are worth keeping an eye out for?

Many thanks.

[Marc Hildebrant]

I have entered all of my 78 RPM records, Edison Flat Records and Edison Cylinders into spreadsheets.

Total number of songs is around 1000.

You may have a valuable song and should list them all.

Marc

[Lucius1958]

If they were in his private collection, I don't think they're 'worthless'. Some of the last DDs are highly sought after, particularly if they're 'hot' jazz.
Also, 'Let Us Not Forget', 'Greetings From the Bunch at Orange', and other special-issue discs are very collectible, not to mention Long Plays, 12 inch dealer records, etc.

- Bill

[shopdoc]

I have entered all of my 78 RPM records, Edison Flat Records and Edison Cylinders into spreadsheets.

Total number of songs is around 1000.

You may have a valuable song and should list them all.

Marc

I appreciate your advice. Would you be interested in trading spreadsheets?

[shopdoc]

If they were in his private collection, I don't think they're 'worthless'. Some of the last DDs are highly sought after, particularly if they're 'hot' jazz.
Also, 'Let Us Not Forget', 'Greetings From the Bunch at Orange', and other special-issue discs are very collectible, not to mention Long Plays, 12 inch dealer records, etc.

- Bill

Thank you for the tips on things to look for. Is there a good master list of diamond disks?

[Marc Hildebrant]

Check this forum for a Diamond Disc Master list.

moredeth posted on 2/4/2009 a spreadsheet containing all Diamond Discs. I used that, with some modifications, to create mine.

Marc

[shopdoc]

Check this forum for a Diamond Disc Master list.

moredeth posted on 2/4/2009 a spreadsheet containing all Diamond Discs. I used that, with some modifications, to create mine.

Marc

Thank you!

On a sidetrack note, found a royal purple in a blue amberol box today.

[shopdoc]

Check this forum for a Diamond Disc Master list.

moredeth posted on 2/4/2009 a spreadsheet containing all Diamond Discs. I used that, with some modifications, to create mine.

Marc

When I tried to download the zip file it said attachment no longer exists.

[Marc Hildebrant]

shopdoc,

You will have to keep searching for this spreadsheet, as it lists the needed info for each record. I'm sure that other sources exist.

Marc

[shopdoc]

I did a first pass on the 100 personal collection diamond disks, and about 20 of the 100 others I keep coming across. I wound up having some wonderful memories of dad playing these for us.

Voila!
50054-L Bear's oil - Vaudeville sketch (Billy Golden, Joe Hughes)
50054-R The two poets (Billy Golden, Joe Hughes)
50080-L The Scarecrow Dance - Characteristic Two-step (Justus Ringleben)
50080-R Danse espagnole 1 (Moritz Moszkowski)
50095-L In Cairo - orientalischer Zug (Franz von Blon)
50095-R The Horse Trot - Two-step (U. Davies)
50100-L My Bambazoo (Ted Snyder)
50100-R Any rags? - Coon song (M + W: Thomas S. Allen)
50133-L The trail of the lonesome pine - Medley (Harry Carroll, et al.)
50133-R International Rag Medley - Turkey Trot (Irving Berlin, et al.)
50145-L Boston Commandery March (T. M. Carter)
50145-R American Patrol (F. W. Meacham)
50195-L Dixie Medley - Cake-walk (Daniel D. Emmett et al.; arr.: Vess L. Ossman)
50195-R Infanta - March (G. B. Gregory)
50197-L The Dazie Two-step (Marshall)
50197-R Cecile - Valse hésitation (Frank MacKee)
50198-L I want to go back to Michigan (down on the farm) (Irving Berlin)
50198-R In Siam - Foxtrot (Klein) - from "Wars of the World" (New York Hippodrome Show)
50200-L The two larks - Prelude (Theodor Leschetizky)
50200-R Prelude-Arabesque (Rogers)
50202-L Roll on, beautiful world, roll on (Ernest R. Ball / George Graff jr.)
50202-R Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers (Hermann E. Darewski / Robert P. Weston)
50212-L Medley of American Patriotic Airs
50212-R Medley of American War Songs
50227-L The little Ford rambled right along (Byron Gay)
50227-R Tip Top Tipperary Mary (Harry Carroll)
50238-L At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee (MacCarthy, Glogau, Al Piantadosi)
50238-R At the ball, that's all - One-step (Hill / Danmark) - from "Darktown Follies"
50248-L There must be little Cupids in the briny (Jack Foley)
50248-R Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner (Theodore F. Morse / Harry Carroll)
50289-L Dixie's Land (M + W: Daniel D. Emmett)
50289-R Dixie's Land (M + W: Daniel D. Emmett)
50317-L I'd rather be a lamp-post on old Broadway (Benjamin H. Burt) - revue "Hip Hip Hooray"
50317-R My foxtrot wedding day (Benjamin H. Burt)
50321-L Cohen owes me ninety-seven dollars - Character song (Irving Berlin)
50321-R Henry Gibson's narrow escape (Billy Golden, James Marlowe)
50331-L Mit Schwert und Lanze - Marsch (Hermann Starke)
50331-R DER TROMPETER VON SÄCKINGEN (Viktor E. Nessler / Rudolf Bunge): Behüt' dich Gott [instrumental arrangement]
50340-L Hezekiah - One-step (Richardson)
50340-R Virginia Reel
50344-L STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN (Irving Berlin): Stop! look! listen!
50344-R VERY GOOD, EDDIE! (Jerome Kern): Babes in the wood (Foxtrot)
50356-L There's a Quaker down in Quaker Town (Berg, Solman)
50356-R Where did Robinson Crusoe go with Friday on Saturday night? (George W. Meyer) - from "Robinson Crusoe Jr."
50357-L Are you from Dixie? ('Cause I'm from Dixie, too!) - One-step (George L. Cobb / Jack Yellen)
50357-R Don't bite the hand that's feeding you (Morgan)
50358-L National Emblem March (Edwin E. Bagley) - paraphrase on "Star spangled banner"
50358-R American Fantasie (Victor Herbert)
50392-L Hapa Haole Hula Girl (Sonny Cunha)
50392-R Smiles, then kisses - Waltz (Charles W. Ancliffe)
50443-L Over there! - March-Foxtrot (M + W: George M. Cohan)
50443-R Good-bye Broadway, hello France! (Baskette)
50468-L They go wild, simply wild, over me (Fred Fisher)
50468-R The Darktown Strutters' Ball - Foxtrot (Shelton Brooks)
50469-L The Darktown Strutters' Ball - Foxtrot (Shelton Brooks)
50469-R Li'l Liza Jane - Foxtrot (Ada de Lachau)
50470-L Johnson "Jass" Blues - Foxtrot (Johnson)
50470-R Umbrellas to mend - One-step (Mel Kaufman)
50472-L Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon (for her lover who is fur, fur away) (Norton)
50472-R The further it is from Tipperary (Godfrey, Byrne / Dudley) - revue "Odds and Ends of 1917"
50474-L The Dixie Volunteers (Edgar Leslie, Harry Ruby)
50474-R I'm going to follow the boys - Novelty song (James V. Monaco / Howard Rogers)
50480-L Molly dear - Waltz (de Blone)
50480-R Old-Timers - Waltz
50489-L Bing! Bang! Bing 'em on the Rhine (Mahoney, Flynn)
50489-R The last long mile (Breitenfeld) - from "Toot-Toot"
50490-L A submarine attack - Descriptive (Theodore F. Morse)
50490-R K-K-K-Katy - Foxtrot (Geoffrey O'Hara)
50495-L When I send you a picture of Berlin (you'll know it's over "Over there", I'm coming home) (Fey, Ryan, Dreyer)
50495-R We're all going calling on the Kaiser (Caddigan / Joseph K. Brennan)
50507-L Sambre-et-Meuse - Défilé (Robert Planquette; arr.: Rauski)
50507-R Sabre and spurs - March (John Ph. Sousa)
50509-L National Airs of the Allies
50509-R Let us not forget - A message to the American people
50514-L Creole belles - Cake-walk (J. Bodewalt Lampe)
50514-R Hiawatha - A summer idyll (M + W: Neil Moret)
50518-L Oh Helen! - Two-step (MacCarron, Morgan)
50518-R How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? - One-step (Walter Donaldson / Lewis, Young)
50529-L Every day will be Sunday (when the town goes dry) (Jerome, Mahoney)
50529-R The Alcoholic Blues (Albert von Tilzer)
50537-L Have a smile for everyone you meet (and they will have a smile for you) (Herbert Rule)
50537-R Anything is nice if it comes from Dixieland - Foxtrot (Milton Ager, George W. Meyer / Clarke)
50570-L The trial of Josiah Brown (Harlan E. Knight)
50570-R Characteristic Negro Medley
50583-L Take me to the land of Jazz - Foxtrot (Pete Wendling)
50583-R Dixie is Dixie once more (Maceo Pinkard)
50607-L You're my gal (Al Bernard)
50607-R Floatin' down to Cotton Town - One-step (F. Henri Klickman / Jack Frost)
50609-L What's this? - Foxtrot (Katzman)
50609-R Clarinet Squawk - One-step (Lada, Nunez, Cawley)
50693-L The American Legion March (Vandersloot)
50693-R Der Rose Hochzeitszug - Charakterstück (Leon Jessel)
50717-L Margie - Medley Foxtrot (J. Russell Robinson, et al.)
50717-R Baby dreams - Berceuse (Dickinson) - from "Jimmie"
50735-L Read 'em and weep (Gus Haenschen / Al Bernard)
50735-R Satisfied (Larry Briers)
50741-L SALLY (Jerome Kern / G. Bolton, Clifford Grey): Look for the silver lining (Foxtrot)
50741-R My Mammy - Foxtrot (Walter Donaldson / Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young)
50743-L Twelfth Street Rag - Foxtrot (Euday L. Bowman)
50743-R American Pep March (George H. Green)
50751-L Romance - Waltz (Lee David)
50751-R Congo nights - Foxtrot (Violinsky, Cowan)
50756-L I like it - Medley Foxtrot (Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, et al.)
50756-R All for you - Foxtrot (Davis, Johnson)
50769-L I want to be the leader of the band (Albert Gumble)
50769-R To the strains of the Wedding March ("It's a long, long walk") (Le Boy)
50782-L I was born in Michigan (Franklin)
50782-R Rio nights - Waltz (E. Vincent, Thompson / Fisher)
50785-L Mississippi bound (Charles Straight)
50785-R Oh Yeedle Ay (That yodelin' tune) (Fisher, Maslof)
50804-L Oh! they're such nice people (Brown, Walsh)
50804-R Anna in Indiana (Billy Gorman, Eddie Gorman, Harry Rose)
50822-L Stolen kisses - Foxtrot (Ted Snyder)
50822-R Learn to smile - Medley Foxtrot (Louis A. Hirsch, et al.)
50827-L My sunny Tennessee - Foxtrot (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Herman Ruby)
50827-R When the honeymoon was over - Foxtrot (Fred Fisher)
50840-L I wonder if you still care for me - Foxtrot (Ted Snyder)
50840-R Tuck me to sleep (in my old Kentucky home) (George W. Meyer / Young, Lewis)
50846-L Apache Love - Foxtrot
50846-R Ma! - Medley Foxtrot (Con Conrad, Timberg, et al.)
50861-L Pep - Characteristic (Arthur Amsden)
50861-R Creatore's Band March (Gerardo Iasilli)
50891-L Georgia Rose - Foxtrot (Rosenthal)
50891-R It's you - Foxtrot (Con Conrad)
50892-L Leave me with a smile - Foxtrot (Chas. Koehler, Earl Burnett)
50892-R Ka-lu-a - Medley Foxtrot (Jerome Kern, et al.)
50931-L Another waltz (Hulten)
50931-R Pretty little Honey Lou (Al Bernard)
50940-L I want a jazzy kiss (Milo, Rega)
50940-R The Argentines, the Portuguese and the Greeks (Morgan / Swanstrom)
50944-L Good-bye, my baby (Charles W. Cadman)
50944-R Huckleberry Finn - Foxtrot (Cliff Hess, Lewis, Young)
50945-L Serenade (Moritz Moszkowski, op.15,1)
50945-R Treu der Flagge - Marsch (Franz von Blon)
50960-L Nola - Foxtrot (Felix Arndt)
50960-R Memories of the South - Foxtrot
50966-L California - Foxtrot (Con Conrad / Cliff Friend)
50966-R I'll dream of you - Foxtrot (Armand Vecsey)
50987-L All over nothing at all - Foxtrot (James S. Rule / Joseph K. Brennan, Cunningham) - from "Spice of 1922"
50987-R Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten - Charakterstück (Leon Jessel, op.123)
50989-L Lovable eyes - Foxtrot (Atteridge, Schwartz, Bryan)
50989-R Stumbling - Shimmy-Foxtrot (Zez Confrey)
51018-L Dancing fool - Foxtrot (Ted Snyder / H. Smith, F. Wheeler)
51018-R If winter comes - Foxtrot (Alden, Leonard)
51022-L Dixie Highway - Foxtrot (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn)
51022-R Two little wooden shoes - Foxtrot (James F. Hanley / Stanley) - from "Spice of 1922"
51032-L My Southern home - Foxtrot
51032-R Cow bells - Foxtrot (Al Piantadosi)
51080-L Jimmy - Foxtrot (Coots)
51080-R Kiss Mama, kiss Papa - Foxtrot (George Fairman / Homan)
51090-L Honeymoon Lane - Foxtrot (Connor)
51090-R I came, I saw, I fell - Foxtrot (Goodman) - from "Passing Show of 1922"
51094-L You are my rain-beau - Medley Foxtrot (Louis A. Hirsch, et al.)
51094-R Bees' knees - Foxtrot (Vincent Lopez, Ted Lewis)
51135-L You said something when you said "Dixie" (Clifford Friend / Clare, Landers)
51135-R To live and to love again (Moore, Clemson)
51155-L Old King Tut (Harry von Tilzer)
51155-R Barney Google - Foxtrot (Billy Rose, Con Conrad / Seyler)
51161-L Funny feet - Novelty Foxtrot (Olman, Cohen)
51161-R Down among the sleepy hills of Ten-Ten-Tennessee - Foxtrot (George W. Meyer / Young, Lewis)
51176-L Aggravatin' Papa - Blues Foxtrot (Roy Turk, J. Russell Robinson)
51176-R Carolina in the morning - Foxtrot (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn) - from "The Passing Show 1922"
51178-L Now that I need you, you're gone - Foxtrot (George W. Meyer / Clark, Leslie)
51178-R Benny! Be yourself! - Foxtrot (Harry DeCosta, M. K. Jerome, Fred E. Ahlert)
51191-L Toot Toot Tootsie (Good-bye!) - Foxtrot (Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo / Fred Meinken)
51191-R Carolina Mammy - Foxtrot (Billy James)
51196-L That's my baby (Clare, Friend, Murphy)
51196-R Parade of the wooden soldiers (Leon Jessel, op.123)
51242-L She walked right up and took my man away - Blues song (Miles, Thompson, Spencer Williams)
51242-R He'll always be one of those guys (Capman)
51295-L Lindy Lady (Percy Wenrich)
51295-R Oh Susannah (M + W: Stephen C. Foster)
51302-L An orange grove in California (Irving Berlin)
51302-R If I stay away too long from Carolina (Raskin, Young, Squires)
51377-L Radetzky-Marsch (Johann Strauß I, op.228) - Armeemarsch 145
51377-R The Washington Post - March (John Ph. Sousa)
51385-L Go, Emmaline - Foxtrot (Henry Creamer, Brown)
51385-R She loves me - Foxtrot (Richard Egan / Lou Brown)
51386-L There's a bend at the end of the Swanee - Foxtrot
51386-R Follow the swallow back home - Foxtrot (Ray Henderson / Rose, Dixon)
51392-L Go 'long, mule - Foxtrot (Henry Creamer, Robert King)
51392-R Since Mother bobbed her hair ("Sister hasn't got a chance since Mother bobbed her hair") (Harry von Tilzer)
51394-L Charley, my boy! - Foxtrot (Gus Kahn, Ted Fiorito)
51394-R Red Hot Mamma - Foxtrot (G. Wells, Bud Cooper, F. Rose / Stept)
51414-L When I was the dandy and you were the belle (Harry Ruby, Lou Handman, Dreyer)
51414-R I wonder what's become of Sally (Milton Ager / Jack Yellen)
51442-L Take me - Foxtrot (Rose, Henderson)
51442-R Underneath a sunny sky - Foxtrot (Parish, Gellen)
51492-L How I love that girl - Foxtrot (Ted Fiorito / Gus Kahn)
51492-R Oh Katharina! - One-step (Richard Fall / Gilbert) [in English]
51507-L I want you back, old pal (Wood, Arnheim)
51507-R Honest and truly - Waltz (Fred Rose / Leo Wood)
51560-L A kiss from you (Maffay, Mitchell)
51560-R West of the Great Divide (Ernest R. Ball / Richard A. Whiting)
51578-L In the purple twilight - Foxtrot (Percy Wenrich)
51578-R Nantucket Nan - Foxtrot (Breau, Oliver, Hueston)
51580-L Steppin' in Society - Foxtrot (Gerber, Akst)
51580-R Collegiate - Novelty Foxtrot (Nat Bonx, Moe Jaffe / Brown)
51588-L Give us the Charleston - Foxtrot (Bud G. de Sylva, Ray Henderson)
51588-R Yes Sir! that's my baby - Charleston (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn)
51598-L Red hot Henry Brown - Foxtrot (Fred Rose)
51598-R She's drivin' me wild - Foxtrot (Gerald Marks, Bud Fields)
51651-L Paddlin' Madelin' home - Foxtrot (H. Woods) - from "Sunny"
51651-R Show me the way to go home - Foxtrot (I. King)
51767-L Hi-diddle-diddle - Song-Foxtrot (M + W: H. Carleton, A. Coon, Hal Seidel)
51767-R Talking to the moon - Foxtrot (Little, Baskette)
51777-L The Gridiron Club March (John Ph. Sousa)
51777-R Sesqui-Centennial Exposition March (John Ph. Sousa)
51877-L Cows! - Foxtrot (Ponce, Leslie, Stone)
51877-R Fire! - Foxtrot (Gay, Whiting)
52484-L Happy days and lonely nights - Foxtrot (Rose, Fred Fisher)
52484-R Me and the man in the moon - Foxtrot (Leslie, Monaco)
80437-L Reminiscences of Ireland (A. Frederick Godfrey) <2>
80437-R Reminiscences of Ireland (A. Frederick Godfrey) <1>
80508-L Macushla (Dermot Macmurrough / Josephine V. Rowe)
80508-R Good-bye! (F. Paolo Tosti / George J. Whyte-Melville)
80570-L WALTZES (Frédéric Chopin) [piano in c# op.64,2]
80570-L WALTZES (Frédéric Chopin) [piano in c# op.64,2]
80570-R Sous bois (Victor Staub, op.6)
80570-R Sous bois (Victor Staub, op.6)
80575-L TANNHÄUSER (M + W: Richard Wagner) Overture <2>
80575-R TANNHÄUSER (M + W: Richard Wagner) Overture <1>