Oldest recording in your collection

[Triton4]

Which is the oldest original album or song in your collection (I mean the original LP, Cassette, or Audio CD recording & not a revised or remastered version)?

I have the album ABBA (by ABBA), my parents bought when I was 3 yrs. old, i.e. 1985 (although the first ABBA album came out in 1975)

[Cylob]

You have no 60's or 50's Triton?

Man, you're missing out.

[marvinbarcelona]

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog EP. Wrapped in non-acid paper, kept out of sunlight and stored in a dry enviroment.

My preciousssssss.....

[Cylob]

It'd make an extra-large cup-mat.

No problem with spills

[Triton4]

@Cylob: Unfortunately, no 60s music (except for midi files). No taste in 50s music, whatsoever.

@marvin: WOW! Since when are you having it?

[marvinbarcelona]

My mum bought it when it was first released, she was a very big Elvis fan.

[marvinbarcelona]

Hey, Cylob, are you dissin' the King? Don't....diss....the....king...

[Cylob]

The king is pictured here (with his servants)....



Elvis.... schmelvis.

[buz]

my oldest disc is Rum, Sodomy & the Lash by the Pogues (1985).
I'm surprised to have something "so old"!

[webthing]

American Record Company

Hawthorne & Horace Sheble & Prescott Sales Mangers

Out in an Automobile - Duet by - Colins & Harlan

10" 78 record 1904-1907

Pressed on blue shellac "Empedite"

This was a product of the American Record Co, of Springfield, Mass. (no relation to the much later American Record Corporation, which eventually controlled Brunswick, Columbia, and a rash of dime-store brands). Ellsworth A. Hawthorne & Horace Sheble were former Edison dealers who were blacklisted by Edison before 1900.

John Hawthorne was the brother of Frederick M. Prescott, who was involved in creation of the Odeon Company in Europe. The company began operations in 1904, producing excellent-quality discs in violation of the basic Berliner and Jones patents on lateral disc recording.

The company produced 7", 10", and 10-3/4" pressings at various times and even dabbled in double-sided pressings.
Much of its business came from supplying department-store and mail-order labels.

The company suspended operations in 1907 after losing a patent infringment suit brought by Columbia, and some of their masters were shipped to England, where they were re-pressed an re-issued under the American Odeon Record label.

The labels are virtually identical to the American version, except that a small Odeon trademark was added (the Indian remained intact). Hawthorne & Sheble remained in business, producing Star records and phonographs (no relation to the later Starr Piano Co. products) in violation of patents until their business was taken over by Columbia, around 1909. Prescott tried unsuccesffuly to launch his own double-sided Champion Two-For-One label in 1908.

Some of the client labels that American supplied included Busy Bee, Kalamazoo, and Peerless. In Europe, the records were reissued under the Leader and Pelican labels, among others. The blue pressing material was called "Empedite" and was supposedly superior to ordinary shellac.

In reality, it appears to be a normal shellac-based compound simply dyed blue instead of black, and it wore just as quickly (if not more so) than regular black pressings. The last pressing under this label were in ordinary black shellac and show New York, rather than Springfield as their location.

http://www.shellac.org

[ShyShy]

Wow... that's quite a collector's item you've got there, webthing. Awesome.

[marvinbarcelona]

Webthing, is this a collector's thing with you? Do you ever dare play any of these?

[webthing]

Yea ShyShy I didn't know the history of that one until yesterday (searched google). I thought that it was one of my oldest. I searched the internet before, but that was a few years ago. I was suprised.
I've got about fifty 78's . I don't collect them any more. ( I collect mp3s now) . When I was collecting them I did listen to them marvin. Unfortunately the American Record Company record is in poor shape(cracked) you can only hear about half a second of the song before the needle fall into the crack.

Here's one for you marvin.
Anyway You Want Me (That's How I will Be) - Elvis Presley flip side Love me Tender.

[marvinbarcelona]

ooohhhhhhhhh!

[Xerxes]

I have an old Gershwin Piano roll from 1915 ... do piano rolls count as recordings?

[Triton4]

@webthing: Haven't heard of that, but awesome nevertheless

@Xerxes: Since when are you having it? :P

[marvinbarcelona]

I would hope Xerxes is "having it" as often as possible...

Sorry, very poor joke, but there you go.

I'd say a piano roll would be included. Technically its a recorded.

[NJK]

oldest thing i could find is some obscure blues record from the early 50's ( have the label on it is gone)
don't know who's singing, or the band name
but my guess would be the old southern blues.

[Lapikas]

Jethro Tull - Benefit
I wasn't born when that was released.. Thank you dad for giving me that!
[Edit]Year was 1970[/Edit]

[nybergh]

My dad has some Beatles from the early 60:s and I some 50's blues I think. It ain't really my record-collection, but who cares?
The oldest recordings i own is some 80's stuff, toto, a-ha, stevie ray vaughan, but that's on cd.