Record company and label
Not to be confused with
Archéophone, a modern phonograph.
Record label
Archeophone Records is a record company and label founded in 1998 to document the early days of America's recording history. It was started by Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, a husband and wife who run the company inChampaign, Illinois. Archeophone restores and remasters audio fromcylinders anddiscs ofjazz,popular music,vaudeville, andspoken word recordings.[1][2]
Archeophone has released recordings byBilly Murray,Bert Williams,Guido Deiro,Nora Bayes,Jack Norworth,Eddie Morton, and by jazz ensembles theSix Brown Brothers, theBenson Orchestra of Chicago, andArt Hickman's Orchestra.
Compilations includeVess Ossman,Arthur Collins andByron G. Harlan,Henry Burr,Bob Roberts,Ada Jones,Fred Van Eps,Sophie Tucker,Harry Lauder, and theAmerican,Peerless, andHaydn Quartets.
The company is not affiliated with theArchéophone manufacturer Henri Chamoux.
Grammy Award nominations
[edit]Best Historical Album[5]
Best Album Notes[5]
- Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s(2007)
- Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph(2008)
- Sophie Tucker, Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910–1922(2009)
- There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916(2010)
- Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides(2014)
- Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925(2015)
- Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1900(2016)[6]
- Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute(2017)
- 4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897: Foundational Recordings of America’s Iconic Instrument(2018)
- Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924(2018)
- The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra(2018)
- At the Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From the Studio, 1894-1926(2020)
- The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business(2020)
- Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889-1895(2021)
- After Midnight(2024)
