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Archeophone Records 3X GRAMMY-winning label reissuing the acoustic era of recording (the 1890s through 1925). We rescue, preserve, and contextualize the world's oldest records.

Archeophone Records was founded in 1998 to bring the world's oldest records back to life. All of our releases feature top-notch audio restorations and are packaged with new scholarship and research, discographical information, and extensive photos and illustrations. Archeophone has received a total of 27 GRAMMY nominations– 10 in the category of Best Historical Album and 17 for Best Album Notes– w

ith three wins. "Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891-1922" won the GRAMMY award for Best Historical Album in February 2007; "Centennial" won GRAMMYs for both Best Historical Albm and Best Album Notes in February 2025. Archeophone has provided consultation and audio restorations for a number of TV shows.

Coming this fall: 1903: "'Twas on the Good Ship Cuspidor," the latest in our popular Phonographic Yearbook series. The t...
15/07/2025

Coming this fall: 1903: "'Twas on the Good Ship Cuspidor," the latest in our popular Phonographic Yearbook series. The track list is below--enjoy! Note that the shop is closed today through Sunday. See you next Monday, the 21st!

1. In the Good Old Summer Time—Haydn Quartet
2. Down Where the Wurzburger Flows—Collins and Harlan
3. Up in a Cocoanut Tree—Billy Murray
4. Come Down Ma Evening Star—Mina Hickman
5. Dear Old Girl—J. W. Myers
6. Hiawatha—Harry Macdonough
7. Good-Bye, Eliza Jane—Arthur Collins
8. ’Deed I Do—Corinne Morgan and Frank C. Stanley
9. By the Sycamore Tree—Bob Roberts
10. Laughing Water—Columbia Orchestra
11. Always in the Way—Byron G. Harlan
12. Goodnight, Beloved, Goodnight—William H. Thompson
13. In the Sweet Bye and Bye—Macdonough and Bieling
14. The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous—Dan W. Quinn
15. Hurrah for Baffin’s Bay—Collins and Harlan
16. Violets (Transcription)—Frank P. Banta
17. Uncle Josh on an Automobile—Cal Stewart
18. Come Down, Ma Evening Star—Henry Burr
19. Congo Love Song—Miss Mina Hickman
20. Any Rags?—Arthur Collins
21. The Message of the Violet—J. W. Myers
22. Tessie, You Are the Only, Only, Only—Billy Murray
23. In Old Alabama—Peerless Orchestra
24. Anona—Henry Burr
25. In the Good Old Summer Time—Sousa’s Band
26. I’m a Jonah Man—Arthur Collins

Thanks to Arts Midwest for their profile of us, just out this week! Our good friend Amy Penne can't decide whether we're...
08/07/2025

Thanks to Arts Midwest for their profile of us, just out this week! Our good friend Amy Penne can't decide whether we're more record label or more restaurant. (Is it a dessert topping or a floor cleaner? It's both!) With appreciation, we've got to get back into the studio and the kitchen!

Archeophone Records is an archive of an almost-lost era of American music history—carefully restored and shared from one couple's home.

We’re set up at the Midwest Music Expo at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg today. Centennial and its siblings are in tow—...
28/06/2025

We’re set up at the Midwest Music Expo at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg today. Centennial and its siblings are in tow—stop by our table to save on shipping and skip the delivery wait.

Celebrating Juneteenth today by visiting the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield IL, which has on displa...
19/06/2025

Celebrating Juneteenth today by visiting the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield IL, which has on display a copy of the original Emancipation Proclamation--signed by Lincoln himself--from the Library's collection. Some 48 copies were printed in 1864 and sold to raise funds for wounded Union soldiers, but only 27 are known to survive.

Big thanks to Tom Cunniffe of Jazz History Online for his glowing review of our "Centennial" box set. Read it in full at...
17/06/2025

Big thanks to Tom Cunniffe of Jazz History Online for his glowing review of our "Centennial" box set. Read it in full at the link below.

For years, jazz history professors had to beg their students to listen to the recordings of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. These important sides (featuring the recording debuts of the entire band, including Louis Armstrong) were made before the advent of microphones and the sound was boxy and lacki...

Well, the last record pic was such a hit, so here's another one, from the collection of John Levin, founder of UCSB's Ea...
10/06/2025

Well, the last record pic was such a hit, so here's another one, from the collection of John Levin, founder of UCSB's Early Recordings Initiative. This is an unbelievably clean early 1892 cylinder by George J. Gaskin that will appear on our aforementioned Anthology of "The Silver-Voiced Irish Tenor." Interesting to note that the 1883 sheet music of "The Bowery Grenadiers," by J. W. Kelly, remarks that it is “Sung with great success by J. W. Myers,” but it looks like Gaskin recorded it first.

On this day 134 years ago, George W. Johnson spent 2-1/2 hours at the Edison Laboratory singing and whistling, while Edw...
01/06/2025

On this day 134 years ago, George W. Johnson spent 2-1/2 hours at the Edison Laboratory singing and whistling, while Edward Issler accompanied him on piano. On the left is the page in the recording log by Edison assistant Theo. Wangemann memorializing the session (Edison National Historic Site); and on the right is a commercial cylinder product that we believe very likely came from that day's recording work (Michael Khanchalian).

Thanks to the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) for bestowing upon us their award for Distinguished Serv...
29/05/2025

Thanks to the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) for bestowing upon us their award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings. It was given out at ARSC's annual conference in Tulsa on Sat., May 17, 2025, and we were there to receive it. What a big surprise, and we are humbled and grateful!

Greetings from Ohio! We’re at the Columbus Moving Picture Show today and tomorrow with our shiny new hardware in tow! St...
23/05/2025

Greetings from Ohio! We’re at the Columbus Moving Picture Show today and tomorrow with our shiny new hardware in tow! Stop by and pick up double-Grammy-winner Centennial—or any of our other releases—and skip the cost of shipping.

Thanks to Jason Gross for his spotlight on Archeophone in this month's edition of the "New York City Jazz Record." Only ...
20/05/2025

Thanks to Jason Gross for his spotlight on Archeophone in this month's edition of the "New York City Jazz Record." Only one little quibble: Jason says that continuing improvements in audio restoration software has "made the release process easier." On the contrary, it's harder now--or at least more time-intensive. In the old days, we wouldn't fix a lot of problems because we didn't have the tools. Now that we *can* fix them, it takes a lot more elbow grease and more time. Hope it's worth it! :)

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Look what has arrived!Thanks again to everyone who helped bring "Centennial" to fruition, but especially Colin Hancock, ...
16/05/2025

Look what has arrived!

Thanks again to everyone who helped bring "Centennial" to fruition, but especially Colin Hancock, Mark Berresford, and--most of all--our notes-writing partner and fellow GRAMMY winner, Ricky Riccardi.

We're dedicating this to Rich's mom Peggy, who passed away on this day two years ago (May 16, 2023). Love you!

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