INDESTRUCTIBLE & U.S. EVERLASTING CYLINDER RECORDS - HISTORY & DETAILED LISTINGS

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Indestructible and U-S
Everlasting Cylinder Records

An Illustrated History and Cylinderography

By Kurt Nauck & Allan Sutton

Indestructible and U-S Everlasting Cylinders covers all brands and series produced by these companies and includes:

Release dates • Artists, pseudonyms, and accompaniment details • Titles and medley contents • Composer and stage-show credits • Alternate versions • Custom and special-use recordings, and other data, much of it published here for the first time.

The first new study of these records in more than five decades, this book corrects the numerous errors and omissions found in the outdated, obsolete Deakins and Annand guides.

The cylinderography is compiled from first-hand examination of the original records, box lids, catalogs, and advertisements.You'll find much previously unpublished data, including information on rarities like the Medicophone and Singaphone cylinders.

The introductory history is the first fully detailed and properly documented study of the companies and people who produced these cylinders. Richly illustrated, it draws on original legal papers, patent filings, newspaper and trade journal reports, the papers of J. Louis von der Mehden (U-S Everlasting’s musical director), and other primary-source materials.

Additional features include a 24-page full-color pictorial guide to boxes, lids, cylinder colors, and rims; a user’s guide; notes on scarcity and general value; and artist and title indexes.

6" x 9" hardcover with dust-jacket
288 pages • 50 illustrations (24 pages in color)

ISBN 978-0-9825595-7-4

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KURT NAUCK is the owner of Nauck's Vintage Records, the world's largest dealer in collector-grade cylinders and 78s. He is the co-author of Notes the Notes and two editions of The Collector's Guide to Victor Records (with Mike Sherman), and American Record Labels and Companies, 1891–1943 (with Allan Sutton).

ALLAN SUTTON is the author of numerous books on early American recordings and record companies — including Race Records and the American Recording Industry 1919-1945, Recording the 'Twenties, Recording the 'Thirties, and A Phonograph in Every Home — and winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.

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