Archeophone Records

03/08/2025

Having a fantastic time at Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans! Only an hour until we’re on stage with Ricky Riccardi sharing stories about the making of Centennial.

31/07/2025

Join us this weekend in New Orleans for the annual Satchmo SummerFest! The fun and music and lectures go on all day Saturday and Sunday. Then at 1 p.m. on Sunday on the third floor of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, you can hear Meagan, Rich, and Ricky Riccardi discuss the making of the double-GRAMMY-winning "Centennial" box set. See ya there!

Satchmo summerfest Special Events Lecture series • Jazz mass • parade • and more! The Satchmo Legacy Stage in Memory of Joni Berry The Satchmo Legacy Stage in Memory of Joni Berry features two days of fascinating discussions by renowned Armstrong scholars. Join us on the third floor of the New...

28/07/2025

Maybe you've never seen a photo of William H. Thompson (1872-1945), the gifted baritone who worked several years for Edison. His two-minute cylinder recording of "Goodnight, Beloved, Goodnight" appears on our upcoming Phonographic Yearbook: 1903: "'Twas on the Good Ship Cuspidor."

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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).