Vintage Recordings

Antique Phonograph Books
A collection of handbooks, manuals and catalogs for vintage phonographs and records.
http://members.aol.com/allenamet/PhonoBooks.html

Bill Clark's 78rpm Website
About the history of English 78rpm records and cylinders, with Gramophone record labels and advertisements to view, and early sounds to listen to.
http://www.bill78.btinternet.co.uk/

Birgit Lotz Verlag & Lotz Liste
Book publishers specializing in discographies, particularly the German National Discography -- a systematic listing of all recordings of the 78rpm shellac era that were made in Germany.
http://www.lotz-verlag.de/index.html

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Information about cylinder recordings and streaming audio, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

Dawn of Sound
Information about vintage recordings and reissues of vintage recordings. New RealAudio selections every month.
http://www.dawnofsound.com/

Dinosaur Discs
Online magazine about vintage recordings; shop and museum devoted to old records in England.
http://www.78rpm.co.uk/index2.htm

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine
This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th century. Features RealAudio streams of acoustic and electrically recorded records.
http://www.dismuke.org/

Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders
Antique phonographs, early sound recording methods, wax cylinder records, excerpts of old-time marching band music, and much of interest to collectors of vintage records.
http://www.tinfoil.com/

Ewing D. Nunn
Information about the man and his 78 RPM microgroove records released on the Audiophile lable. Includes a label discography.
http://www.flash.net/~bobgh/nunn.htm

Glen's .MP3 Page - Vintage Hot-Dance and Jazz Recordings
A site with MP3 files of vintage jazz and hot-dance music. Also has a how-to page.
http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/

Jan's 78 RPM Record Warehouse
Listen to a collection of 78 RPM records, transcribed in streaming Real Audio, accompanied with background information, photos and record labels. In English and Dutch.
http://www.78rpm.hovers.nl/

Mainspring Press
Free online articles from a publisher of discographies of vintage 78s and cylinder records.
http://www.mainspringpress.com/

Nipperhead Antique Phonograph
Information pertaining to antique phonographs, gramophones, records, Victor, Edison, Columbia, and of course, Nipper. Contains cylinder and disc sound recordings, a phonograph gallery, repair instructions, and resource listings.
http://www.nipperhead.com/index.html

Phono-holics Anonymous
A safe place to talk about those talking machines. Covers Edison cylinders, 78s, Diamond discs and 10" LPs.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gnordenstam/

The 78rpm Record Home Page
The complete resource for 78 collectors. Pictures of labels, many good articles and lots of links.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8764/

Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox
Audio selections from a collection of 78 RPM records, rotated monthly. Also, demonstration clips of noise reduction, and a trivia quiz.
http://www.swazoo.com/

Tim's Phonographs and Old Records
Tim Gracyk's home page: a large collection of original articles on vintage phonographs and recordings.
http://www.gracyk.com/

Tyrone's Record and Phonograph Page
Articles, entire recordings, a collection list, and a set of links on 78rpm, cylinder, and odd records, and the phonograph machines to play them on.
http://www.proaxis.com/~settlet/record/record.html

UK 78rpm Collectors' Forum
A UK based forum for collectors of 78rpm records, featuring label scans.
http://www.geocities.com/uk78rpmforum/

Vintage 78 RPM Era American Record Company Sleeves
Images, and information about a research and restoration project.
http://www.bluesworld.com/Wayland.html

The Virtual Gramophone
A multimedia Web site devoted to the first half-century of recorded sound in Canada. When complete, it will provide a look at the 78-rpm era. A project of the National Library of Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html

Desperate Man Blues: Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it's 1929
Long article about the legendary 78 collector, reprinted from Washington City Paper. <small>(February 12, 1998)</small>
http://www.bluesworld.com/Bussard.html