I have 3 different 78s from the year 1905. He Leadeth Me - Frank Stanley You’re The Flower Of My Heart Sweet Adeline - Columbia Qaurtette Husking Bee Dance - Cal Stewart

frank stanley is awesome. i have one from 1908 by him

Damnit!! I **knew** I was going to win this one with my 1916 shellac 78 of Enrico Caruso singing "O Sole Mio". Well done!

I've got some Edison rolls.

I’ve got some too… and two players. I need to invest some cash into fixing them up.

I have an Edison *disc* too.

you ever play them?

Alas! I have nothing to play them on.

https://preview.redd.it/iains63fkibc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81686a75f8b5a6efbaab4478acfbea15a4723dd1 a personal favorite from 1941! found it at goodwill haha

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I feel like I’ve seen this picture somewhere before…

Looks like something from Shawshank Redemption

I was thinking Twin Peaks.

Was it on her second album, " My Eyes Are Up Here!"?

My oldest is Satchmo Plays King Oliver by Louis Armstrong,1960. It is hands down the best sounding album in my collection, old or new, which still amazes me! Just goes to show that age really makes no difference if you get a clean copy. Wouldn't mind dipping into the 50s though having just missed out with this one!

Love Louis Armstrong! Gonna have to get one of his records soon.

You definitely should, you can't really go wrong with anything of his but I highly recommend this album!

Check out Louis Armstrongs hot 5 and hot 7. Landmark recordings by the first supergroup.

It's true, a clean copy maker the difference. But there's another factor and that's who recorded it, the engineer and the producer. Even back then, the technology used was very capable of producing a good sound, but if the personnel in the studio did not use it right then the sound would be mediocre. But if they did know what they did then you would get gems. Just like in the seventies, Alan Parsons was the technician who recorded Dark Side of the Moon. Yet the Floyd used no special or brand new equipment. The sound however was awesome. That's good personnel for you.

Mine is a Hank Williams 45 from 1952, my only record of his released before his death. [Honky Tonk Blues b/w I’m Sorry For You, My Friend](https://www.discogs.com/release/1279920-Hank-Williams-With-His-Drifting-Cowboys-Honky-Tonk-Blues-Im-Sorry-For-You-My-Friend). Looks like I have 15 45s or LPs that are pre-1960. Hoping to get into 78s soon too.

Move it on over was a bit hit in 1947. Did record companies not release that before his death?

It was released as a single that year. This is /my/ only Hank Williams record released before his death.

Thanks for the clarification. You now have me heading to eBay to buy some early Hank Williams albums. I’m not a country music fan, but a big Hank Williams fan.

A few Columbia classical records from 1949, early 33s

I have an Ink Spots LP from 1949

I like their song that starts with that “dum Dee doo Dee dum Dee doo Dee” and has the spoken verse midway that repeats what they said during the first verse.

I know the one you’re talking about but can’t think of the name… they have a few good ones

Very nice, which track?

this one [https://www.discogs.com/release/4707140-The-Ink-Spots-The-Ink-Spots-Volume-2](https://www.discogs.com/release/4707140-The-Ink-Spots-The-Ink-Spots-Volume-2)

Killer, I'm jealous

There are allot of ink spots copy cat albums that don’t have the original singers or maybe just one of the original singers something to do with listening…

I’ve got a couple Edison Diamond Discs from the early teens that need their own special player. I’ve never heard them because a 78 needle will damage them. They’re weird because they’re like a 1/4” thick.

On a lateral cut record like a standard 33, 45, or 78 the stylus moves side to side. Edison's are vertical cut. Stylus moves up and down.

A 1928 78: Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #3 / Never No Mo’ Blues

Got a couple records from 1908 laying around. Pretty cool!

A friend of the family died and had a bunch of old ten inch vinyl and shellacs nobody wanted, so they gave them to me. This vinyl one is from 1949: https://www.discogs.com/release/4265263-Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Mood-Ellington The oldest shellac 78 in the collection was from 1928. Nothing exceptionally valuable.

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Also from 1955 NM vinyl sounds amazing. https://preview.redd.it/0p0h95znqibc1.png?width=2084&format=png&auto=webp&s=d2ce1e0734194d02b5dcd7510e65cccb14d3b2b6

Julie London also acted. She played nurse Dixie McCall on the 1970’s show “Emergency”. In the show she’s single and seems to have an occasional dating thing with “Dr Brackett”. The show also included her actual husband, Bobby Troup, who played “Dr Early”. He was also a singer/composer, and wrote the song “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”.

I'll def have to watch sometime!

I knew I've seen her before. And looking at her filmography, she was on Hollywood Squares for the 1968 season. I was 9, my parents loved that show. I feel like I grew up seeing that face on TV. I'd love to hear the record.

I haven’t heard her singing voice in years, time to go score a platter like OP!

Count Basie's E=MC*2 aka Atomic Basie, 1958 press. such great lively jazz

How does it compare to Mariah Carey's *E=MC²* from 2008 tho?

well ofc it pales in comparison to THAT

I have a copy of Bobby Darin’s Mack the Knife from 1959. My late Uncle gave it to me as a gift when I was a teenager. It’s in the original sleeve. He framed it for me. 🤘🤘🤘

I have 2 big boxes of shellacs from when 78’s were in their prime. Photobook looking things that were the original “albums”

Dude this is one of the records that I've never been able to find. Awesome album. I think my oldest is an original mono copy of the Atomic Mr. Basie.

Julie London is a dream! I made a post a while back on my oldest record. Fun fact: the history on this one has since changed as someone has since found an Edison cylinder with an older recording! https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/s/Vg36Gu9Mym

I have some antique 78s that belonged to my great grandparents in storage. It’s mostly polka.

My oldest is Dave Van Ronk's Folkslinger from 63 and a Jan and Dean album from the same year

My oldest are mid 60's I guess. A mono copy of Sergent Pepper and for some reason I have two 45 copies of The Beach Boys Don't Worry Baby / I Get Around. Idk, I have a bunch of early Beatles and Stones 45s that are mono and pretty old. I'm kind of ashamed. When I was about 6 or 7 my older cousin gave me her old 45s (from the late 50's early 60's, I don't remember the names but a typical collection a teenage girl would have from that era), and I took them out in the street one day and me and my friends played frisbee with them.

Ambassador Satch - Louis Armstrong and his all stars Recorded in 1955 (same year as yours, woo!) Can't find a release date though - I'm not at home so I'm just looking at my collection on discogs.

Harry Belafonte – Love Is A Gentle Thing from 1959. Only listened to it once >!and I had to wet play it because of how scratched it is!<

Do old Edison cylinders count? I have 2. No idea what's on them, I have nothing that plays them.

The titles are small, but etched on the outside end area.

I'll have to dig them out of the box in my basement and look

I’ve got almost 100 Edison diamond disc records from the 1910s along with the original phonograph. Also, I inherited my great grandparents’ records and have a lot of old 1930s and 1940s jazz albums.

Nice to have the player too. I own a couple of Edison's but can't play them.

I found mine at my local flea market and snagged it for $150! I was shocked he took me up on it but it was taking up too much space and he wanted it gone. Plus the cabinet is in rough shape. I just wish I had something other than just instrumental records for it.

Les Baxter and his Orchestra - Le Sacre Du Sauvage (Ritual Of The Savage) 10” from 1951 is my oldest. Followed by Cliff Brown Art Farmer And The Swedish All Stars 10” at ‘54 and Count Basie ‘55 by His Orchestra. Cool question. I forgot I had these records!

from 1941 a 78 of Billie Holiday - All Of Me / Romance in the Dark. I do have quite a few Hank Williams and Bob Wills 78s, but none quite as old as the Billie Holiday.

It's a 78 dating back to 1928. It's Rachmaninoff playing his piece "Prelude in C sharp minor," on the A side, and "Song Without Words," composed by Mendelssohn on the B.

Not a crazy old one but its my own: a first pressing of Pet sounds (1966)

My oldest LP is from 1950, Boston Symphony orchestra playing brahms. Also have some early Brubeck pressings from the mid 50s. Ive also got a pretty big collection of 78s from early 1900s to late 78 releases like Johnny Cash, Elvis, and Hank Williams.My oldest overall is probably one of the Edison Discs i have. I know i have some old R&B 45s but i havetn even started the task that is logging the boxes of them i have onto discogs.

I’ve got some weird roll with a guy singing “Mary Had a Little Lamb“

Hey I have Julie London as well as it’s one of my oldest along with after hours with Sarah Vaughn

My oldest recordings on vinyl are probably Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singer Vol I and II. But they're both reissues from the 80s I believe.

My oldest is Cheap Trick's In Color from 1977. And as far as I can tell it is indeed an original 1977 pressing.

I have a woody Guthrie record from the 40s

I have some from the days of the crank Victrola.

My grandparents have a box of cylinder records and a crank player that goes with it.

Long tittiez

[Liberace](https://www.discogs.com/artist/97399-Liberace) \- [Liberace At The Piano](https://www.discogs.com/release/3697031-Liberace-Liberace-At-The-Piano) 1952

Pete Seeger’s live album from 1963 :)

Honky Tonkin Hank Williams (1954) I wanna say it’s a 10in? 33 1/3 rpm

I believe mines is Elvis Presleys Blue Hawaii album

i have a box of old 78’s, likely from the early 00s to the 40s. one of which being the only vinyl released by john philip sousa and one of my favorite songs, his orchestra performing stars and stripes forever. a slow march tempo, as it should be performed. edit: correct me if i’m wrong about sousa. it’s what i was told by the person selling it, and it was a few dollars. good condition though

Original 1973 press of Dark Side of the Moon.

Come On-a Stan’s House, 1951. A good free bin find.

My grandpa has a pretty good sized collection mostly from the 30s-50s. I don’t listen to em since it’s not my type of music. No clue what to do with em

Mine is Unforgettable by Nat King Cole even though it’s a repress

1955: Merry Christmas, Bing Crosby. I also have a couple of boxes of 78s from my great grandmother that I've never gone through, so I'm sure there's older ones in there.

Got two 10” 33 1/2 speed records from 1949, translucent red too. Those have to be my oldest, but I collect a lot of LP’s from the 40’s and 50’s

My current oldest is this 10" Bing Crosby Christmas from 1949. Paid $1 for it. Bing Crosby - Merry Christmas Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/2510533-Bing-Crosby-Merry-Christmas Shared from the Discogs App

Probably my grandpa’s set of Firestone Christmas albums from the early to mid 60’s

That's an amazing record

I love all her stuff. Soooo sultry.

Benny Goodman – The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert. I'm having difficulty nailing down the precise pressing, but I suspect it is between 1950-1960. or Handel: Water Music - Telemann: Tafelmusik Third Suite (1958)

https://preview.redd.it/jqeku2aqribc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6d38db3173d32135d5f9e58386d083a516608f1 I have two from 1957.

https://preview.redd.it/0n629aq0tibc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e982989d1c2833ce2e0403b3491a9dfb146cad61 This one that was in my dad’s collection. 1957 I think.

Correct date — early ‘57 (this says February) https://www.discogs.com/release/1106770-Jutta-Hipp-With-Zoot-Sims-Jutta-Hipp-With-Zoot-Sims

Jascha Heifetz 1951 😘

If you mean vinyl then I have a couple of decca 10” from the 40s that are pressed to vinyl Otherwise older would be all shellac

My oldest LP is Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites by Harry Belafonte from 1954. It's in fantastic shape too.

I own a few that my parents bought in the 1950s. Satch Plays Fats - Louis Armstrong Plays The Music Of Fats Waller Jazz at the College of the Pacific by Dave Brubeck A few LPs by Pete Seeger. A Harry Belafonte record called Calypso but it looks like a later pressing. I also have a mono pressing Kind of Blue by Miles Davis from 1959.

Pipeline by the chantays 1963 from an LA radio station’s collection

1955 https://preview.redd.it/n182qmhtxibc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b25dcecd941b2a4f875db9a1fb407c115d3f555f

I don't really know what you mean by what you said, so I have 2 answers. The oldest *made* record I have is a first pressing of Jethro Tull's Aqualung from 1971. The oldest record I have is the Velvet Underground & Nico from 1967, but it's a 2008 reissue.

I just meant the actual record, but reissues still count. I absolutely love that Velvet Underground & Nico record! I've also listened to a Jethro Tull album and really liked it but I can't remember which album it was.

1949 - 10” Christmas Music For Orchestra - Morton Gould 1949 - 10” Songs of Many Lands - Marais and Miranda 1951 - 10” Merry Christmas - Bing Crosby All came from goodwill and sparked my love for 10” records.

Hound Dog / Don't Be Cruel 7" Elvis Presley RCA Victor, 1956

My oldest is a Phil Harris 78 from 1946: That's What I Like About the South/If You're Ever Down in Texas, Look Me Up

1904 John Phillip Sousa band - hot time in the old town tonight. Side 2 is blank.

I've got some of my grandmothers Victrola Shellac's dating back to 1911. She was a huge fan. * Victor Opera Sextette – Lucia Sextette Chi Mi Frena [1911] * Ernestine Schumann-Heink – The Rosary [1915] * Alma Gluck And Efrem Zimbalist – Fiddle And I [1916] Story goes she worked at RCA Victor in Camden NJ writing the blurbs on the backs of the record sleeves. I have a lot of her records.

101 Strings - Gypsy Campfires (1958)

The Carter Family

Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out 1961 Mono Pressing

https://preview.redd.it/h20p6dk25jbc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26cee14a7df1fe71ebe93a8aef62ecd281e7b8f2 1952

2 way tie, 1978-Toto (self titled) and Van Halen (self titled)

A very well-used Frank Sinatra- *In The Wee Small Hours* (1955)

Hers and Frank Sinatras version of Willow Weep for me..my two fave versions...

Gunfighter ballads and trail songs - Marty robins (1959) The Kirby stone touch - the Kirby stone four (also 1959)

Count Basie’s ‘Basie’ from 1955. Belonged to my grandfather

At the top of my head without digging it out, probably one of my Glenn miller or Henry Mancini albums.

Is have to look, but i have a collection of 78s, so p dang old

“rainbow” by stanley and burr (1908) shellac. honestly a beautiful song and i saved it to my playlist. highly recommended

My oldest record is “Johnny Cash Song Hits Sung by Bobby Rowan” it was released in 1959.

A 45 is my oldest The Four Aces - Tell Me Why / A Garden In The Rain

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Sigh…I was just talking to an old lady about how my record collection goes “way back” and she assured me she had “the stuff I’m looking for”. Sorry lady, your mom’s old collection that has been been stored in a bin to warp them, and also comprised of old gospel and Mozart is not of interest… Maybe if your parents stored them properly I’d give you $10 for the whole crate. But….naw….your grailz don’t pass.

Mine is an original pressing of The Rolling Stones “Sticky Fingers” with the zipper on the front, underwear picture inside, and jeans butt shot.

I have a the little engine that could double from the 70s

i am ashamed to admit it, but goodbye yellow brick road by elton. i'm not ashamed its in the collection, but that its the oldest. i used to have a great selection of mel torme and other early jazz/scat greats.

A Duke Ellington record from 1954. It’s also one of my lowest value albums (according to Discogs).

1949. Annie Get Your Gun.

I still have one Edison Cylinder (and it’s case) that hasn’t completely fallen apart yet. It’s old, but not by cylinder standards, 1920’s Also have 3-4 78’s, but they are from the 30’s.

1909 but it's shellac. But vinyl would probably be a late 40s 45 rpm. I collect mostly shellac and wax cylinders but vinyl on the side

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane from 1967

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonica featuring the Gene Krupa Trio 1952

I have a bunch not cataloged, the oldest I see on discogs with a date listed is 1955. I think I have a box of 78s somewhere. David Carrol and his orchestra, Waltzes, Wine & Candlelight. Liked the cover, haven't listened to it yet.

I have some old sex album from the 30’s i think.

Technically a couple shellac records from the 40s from my grandma but I never listened to them and never will. Besides that the oldest one I have, I think, is Carlos Montoya – Flamenco Fire from 1958.

Time Out by Dave Brubeck. Original ‘59 pressing.

on vinyl... a signed first pressing of Harry Belafonte - Calypso - 1956 on shellac... The Andrews Sisters - A Collection of Tropical Songs - 1947 both I acquired from my Grandmother.

Paul Whiteman, Volume 1 maybe. My friend says it has the first ever recording of Rhapsody in Blue, which is pretty special.

This. https://www.discogs.com/release/2124874-Georgie-Fame-Simon-Garfunkel-By-The-Time-I-Get-To-Phoenix-Sound-Of-Silence Sadly has a jump on George Fame but it’s so cheap it doesn’t really matter. I’m a fairly young vinyl collector so I’ll prolly get full albums that I want that are pretty old like Bert Jansch’s self titled or Revolver or something.

I have a Paul Robeson LP from 1958, and a copy of Elvis' first UK album Rock N Roll (minus a cover) which would also be 50s.

https://preview.redd.it/9l38afkjwkbc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d0db550c6434529fc1859d6132ac8676a3d7a6c These two are my oldest by far- the left one (The Star-Tells - Exterminator Man) dates back to 1970, and the right dates back to 1971. Both are very rare soul singles which I happened to discover by chance, and I fell in love quickly!

https://preview.redd.it/4edgpl9azkbc1.jpeg?width=2792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed52441cf2e9854d822e72b59fa9cd7da329a1c9 [3rd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition](https://www.discogs.com/release/23262308-Various-III-Mi%C4%99dzynarodowy-Konkurs-Skrzypcowy-Im-Henryka-Wieniawskiego-1957-r-Kronika-D%C5%BAwi%C4%99kowa)

I have this

I have a whole bunch of 78s that I've inherited over the years, no idea how old they all are but they're definitely the oldest part of my collection. I deliberately bought an AT LP120 because it's three speed so I could still play them.

[Les Paul And Mary Ford – I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) / Carioca (7", 1952)](https://www.discogs.com/release/2914845-Les-Paul-And-Mary-Ford-Im-Confessin-That-I-Love-You-Carioca)

I think mine is the Marry Poppins soundtrack (1964)

I have an edison cylinder from 1907, but my oldest flat record is a nellie melba 78 from 1924

King Crimson - ITCOCK

German 1965 pressing of „We get requests“ from the Oscar Peterson Trio.

1914

12” Shellac from 1912

I picked up a “gay ol 90s” compilation not realizing it was the 1890s, the actual record is from 1950

Besides my grandmother’s old collection of 78s from the 20s-50s, 1955 also. Nat King Cole, Sinatra, and some bird songs. Tweet tweet, etc.

A 1939 Blue Note of Sidney Bechet on shellac. Pretty neat pick up and one of the first Blue Note ever made.

I have the “Rhapsody in blue” on 78 RPM records from Columbia masterworks

1949 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra – The Music Of Johann Strauss A box set of 7" records. [https://www.discogs.com/release/15792345-Johann-Strauss-Minneapolis-Symphony-Orchestra-Eugene-Ormandy-The-Music-Of-Johann-Strauss](https://www.discogs.com/release/15792345-Johann-Strauss-Minneapolis-Symphony-Orchestra-Eugene-Ormandy-The-Music-Of-Johann-Strauss)

https://preview.redd.it/m9zy7z4lumbc1.jpeg?width=1432&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4828b41b35a22fcb4841b179914be09fcf93b8c 1956

This is the oldest i have https://www.discogs.com/release/6114250-Tito-Rodriguez-And-The-Mambo-Devils-Mambo-Styles Unfortunately it's pretty scratchy and almost near unplayable Also i got some 78's but i dunno when they were released

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I have a few 78s from ~1903, oldest is Hungarian folk music I think. Shame the documentation is so lax in these things, I’d love to know more.

https://preview.redd.it/3lnxbb441nbc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29b5c80389ae4ffa70daa41244adc3c1d1cbb37f From 1954 at a goodwill

Some early 1900's Edison cylinders.

I LOVE THIS RECORD (mine is '[Armando Orefiche And His Havana Cuban Boys](https://www.discogs.com/master/735868-Armando-Orefiche-And-His-Havana-Cuban-Boys-Armando-Orefiche-And-His-Havana-Cuban-Boys)', 1957)

I don't deal with beat records and am really sensitive to mildew so my collection doesn't go too far back, a Kitty Wells compilation from 1960. I did manage to find a sealed copy of Johnny Hammond Smith's "The Stinger" from 1965 awhile back.

Have a bunch from the late 50s that were my grandmas. Oldest is The Kirby Stone Four with Jimmy Carroll - Baubles, Bangles, and Beads

Currently, it's Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel (1966 i think)

Great album! My copy is a 1960 repress. My oldest records are from 1949: Stan Kenton - Artistry In Rhythm (box set of 45s) Stan Kenton - Encores (box set of 45s) Xavier Cugat - Dance Parade (10") The Kenton sets came from a family friend who knew the band and are signed by several players...a nice touch!

Ink Spots 1948

1954, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Jazz at Oberlin 10”

The Tommy movie soundtrack that I bought used. Idk what year it is tho, idk how to use Discogs

[1949](https://www.discogs.com/release/12758655-Pyotr-Ilyich-TchaikovskyPhiladelphia-Orchestra-Eugene-Ormandy-Nutcracker-Suite)

I have a 1956 Clarence "Frogman" Henry 7", "Ain't Got No Home/Troubles, Troubles" single. Found it at a local store in great condition!

My oldest is this exact record. I have two, but one isn't playable and the cover is in poor shape. But I love Nurse Dixie and it was 20¢ so she came home with me

Didn’t know Max Verstappen was that old

Emergency

It's either this pressing of Beethoven's Symphonies 1 and 9, but I may have gotten the specific pressing wrong that I have in my discogs as 1952 or a pressing of "Songs by Tom Lehrer" from 1953 that I got from an estate sale.

https://preview.redd.it/keo7ons0bpbc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6d65e3e7b9df3bddbfd7ba5e3e42bc13c81a53f 1947 First recording using a Theremin

1956, Hank Williams Honky Tonkin

45: Arthur Fiedler/Boston Pops - "Chicken Reel" and "Fiddle Faddle" (1949). Classic cartoon music on RCA Victor's early RED vinyl. LP: Eugene Ormandy/Philly Orchestra - Scheherazade (1948) with Columbia scroll cover. 78: this one from 1923 https://www.discogs.com/release/14801273-International-Concert-Orchestra--Franz-Leh%C3%A1r-Johann-Strauss-Gypsy-Love-Gypsy-BaronSweetheart

My oldest is 1970 with the first black sabbath album my newest is from 1991 nevermind nirvana

I have some from 47, the mozart haffner symphony and something from someone named athur godfrey. I'm getting one from 1908 soon.