The Shellackophile

Cover design by Alex Steinweiss This posting is in response to a request. I obtained this set of Oscar Levant playing "the" Tc...

Oscar Seagle Born in Ooltewah, Tennessee (now a suburb of Chattanooga), baritone Oscar Seagle (1877-1945) enjoyed a successful career as...

The Budapest Quartet with Milton Katims This past spring, I uploaded a Mozart string quintet recording  (C major, K. 515) by the Budapes...

This post is pure nostalgia for me, because recordings similar to the ones in it represent some of my earliest record-listening experience...

Hamilton Harty, from the 1927 Columbia Catalogue After all these years, the symphony most associated with America remains Dvořák's e...

Those of you seeing my title for this post, and then seeing the label picture above, must be thinking, "he's joking, right?"...

Oscar Levant The Pittsburgh-born pianist, composer, author, actor, and (in later years) professional neurotic Oscar Levant (1906-1972) p...

In the early 1950s, the switch from standard 78-rpm records to the new long-playing ones occasioned, in some countries, some pretty strang...

Daniel Gregory Mason The third and final installment of my Coolidge Quartet series is here, meaning you can now hear every one of their ...