The phonoscope (Nov 1896-Dec 1899)

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Vol. J. No. :5 THE PHONOSCOPE 19 IF YOU WANT. HIGH-CLASS ORIGINAL RECORDS OF THE ABOVE CELEBRATED ARTISTS WRITE TO US. WE CAN FURNISH YOU ONE OR A THOUSAND NE OF the serious drawbacks in the Talking-Machine business has been the limited amount of talent employed in record-making. The entire phonograph and graphophone world for the past six years has had to satisfy itself with records which were limited to the product of about ten vocalists, three bands and a few instrumental soloists. We propose to offer to the patrons of the phonograph and graphophone a series of records by celebrated artists that command public attention at the leading theatres, such as Lottie Gilson, Bonnie Thornton, James Thornton, Sam Devere, Johnnie Carroll, Sam Bernard, Weber and Fields, Leona Lewis, Myer Cohen, Lottie Mortimer, Annie Hart, Maud Nugent, Allan May, William Jerome, Margaret Gonzalez, May Howard, Walter Talbot, La Porte Sisters, Ed. Latell, May Lowry, Gotham Comedy Four, Anna Willmuth Curran, John P. Curran, and many other vaudeville stars. We shall also manufacture and keep in stock records by the popular artists who have been associated with the talking-machine for years, such as Spencer, Gaskin, Quinn, Golden, At Lee, Hunting, Favor, etc. The above artists have popularized such hits as " Sweet Rosie O'Grady," "You're Not the Only Pebble on the Beach," "Mother Was a Lady," "The Lost Child," "My Best Girl's a New Yorker." "Down in Poverty Row," "Kathleen," " On the Benches in the Park," "Elsie from Chelsea," "Handicap March," "Honeymoon March," "Oriental Echoes" (March), etc. Jos. W. Stern & Co., who are interested in this new enterprise, have published all of the above and many other hits, and we are consequently enabled to supply the public with the latest New York successes immediately upon their gaining popularity, and before most of the phonograph companies are aware of their existence. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE