During the Roaring Twenties, families gathered together in the elegant mansions of the the 3 rivers area to decorate for the Christmas holiday.
Music was a big part of that. KDKA came to Pittsburgh. Jazz came to Pittsburgh. And of course everyone had the newest model Victrola and collected Victor records.
Would you like to hear some of the Roaring Twenties recordings?
Santa Claus hides in your phonograph / Arthur A. Penn ; [performed by] Harry E. Humphrey.
The bells of St. Mary's / A. Emmett Adams ; [performed by] Lewis James ; [words by Douglas Furber].
Polski taniec / Aleksander Iwanowski.
Night time in Little Italy / Frisco "Jazz" Band.
Second Hungarian rhapsodie, part I / F. Liszt ; [performed by] Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) is an index to master recordings (matrixes) and published discs made by the Victor Talking Machine Company beginning in 1900. The photo above was found in the Library of Congress National Photo Collection. The recordings are wav files that can be played on media player and are part of the Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies at the Library of Congress.
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