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I've never seen this particular Edison Long Play disc (10", no. 10008) on You Tube and thought a contribution from me would be better than nothing. It's of the left side. I explain on my site that my copy is pretty badly-scarred and will only really play on a 1960s turntable--and even there I had to manually push the tone arm past a few bad spots on several occasions.

Anyway, just a modest offering for the Edison LP fans out there. I will post the right side of 10008 later; and other LP sides after that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqRboSIXdhc

Ralph

Yes, that is the My Lady's Boudoir Suite which has Rolfe's concert orchestra playing ballet type music, instead of his usual dance band playing jazzy foxtrots. This piece was offered on Long Play as well as a regular DD format. On the regular DD record, the serial number of My Lady's Boudoir is 51956 and was released in April, 1927. The suite is in four movements: 1. Chiffon 2. Lace 3. Perfume 4. High Heels and Buckles. The entire suite takes up both sides of the standard DD record. The composer was a woman, one Louella Lockwood Moore, and was performed by B. A. Rolfe and His Concert Orchestra. Rolfe was obviously trying to emulate Paul Whiteman by having a Concert Orchestra as well as a dance band. Larry Hollenberg has recorded both sides of this piece on YouTube in two videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30abVBN5KuU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaIFebrsJg
WARNING: DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS MUSIC IF YOU ARE DRIVING OR OPERATING HEAVY EQUIPMENT!

One of the Edison Company's goals, stated in their advertising, with the Long Play records was to offer relaxing, background "dinner music", and this certainly fits that bill.

Marc.

I agree, its very soothing but not particularly noteworthy music. Rolfe seems to have been interested in other types of music from his usual hot jazz styles. He probably wanted to be known for more serious music as well. Most of his collectors probably shunned his later style.

Larry

I have the 40 minute LP by Anna Case,also the 24 minute LP of hymns.I got both from my late friend Jerry Donnell.I also bought a gold LP reproducer on EBay.edisonplayer

Thanks guys! Marc, thanks for the extra info and the warning about heavy equipment; Larry, you've got an amazing collection of Diamond Discs; what's your count up to? Mine is 781 at the moment.

Edisonplayer, you're lucky to have those later Edison LPs as it seems there weren't too many pressed. You ever get tired of either of them, name your price. I've also got an extra copy of 10002 that's in excellent shape; it's currently on E-bay. If no one bites, I can throw that in on a trade and negotiate the rest $-wise. But that's just a no-pressure offer.

Ralph

I heard that Kurt Nauck bought the entire Charles Gregory Edison record collection for just 5K! What a deal as that included every DD ever recorded including some of the demonstration records used by singers that played the orchestral music minus the singer. This collection also included every needle-cut Edison record. Wow! Would I like to cherry pick that! Marc.

I also have a ton of Edison DD's. I probably have around 800 DD's. No wonder my shelves are sagging! The way I cataloged them is just to enter each of their serial numbers into Microsoft Excel since that program will put them in numerical order for me. Since Edison record catalogs have already cataloged them by title, I just cross reference to that or the Gregory DD books. But when you have that many discs, you have to get them in some kind of order, or finding a particular title will be impossible. So I am in the process of putting them in serial number order on my shelves. I think I would like to thin my collection to about half or 400 discs, so I may be putting some of them on Ebay.

marcapra wrote:I also have a ton of Edison DD's. I probably have around 800 DD's. No wonder my shelves are sagging! The way I cataloged them is just to enter each of their serial numbers into Microsoft Excel since that program will put them in numerical order for me. Since Edison record catalogs have already cataloged them by title, I just cross reference to that or the Gregory DD books. But when you have that many discs, you have to get them in some kind of order, or finding a particular title will be impossible. So I am in the process of putting them in serial number order on my shelves. I think I would like to thin my collection to about half or 400 discs, so I may be putting some of them on Ebay.

I don't know whether to endorse your selling plan or not, Marc. Part of me says "Don't do it! You're a great collector and resource and should keep your stuff." But another part of me says "Give your buddies on the TMF first dibs!"

For my DDs I've created a Word document with records arranged by catalog number; titles and performers can be word-searched. They sit on super-sturdy shelves!

In putting my collection of DDs in numerical order, I'm finding I have quite a few duplicates, so I think I'll put together a list of DDs for sale soon. And I will put them on the Yankee Trader first. Marc.

marcapra wrote:In putting my collection of DDs in numerical order, I'm finding I have quite a few duplicates, so I think I'll put together a list of DDs for sale soon. And I will put them on the Yankee Trader first. Marc.

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