This particular recording is very clear, considering it is over 100 years old.

Always better to hear the original old versions than the modern ones.

"Purest, clearest, most brilliant tone", my expectations were surpassed.

Cant help but think about my wife who passed away from cancer 3 years ago....listening to this.

This musical component sounds so clear for a century old cylinder

The sad thing about this song, is youre listening to a dead person singing, but never the less its a great song!!

Thanks for the great comments! It's a shame these Lakeside cylinders are so scarce today. Many were so very well recorded.

The orchestration on this is quite pleasant

in the present age did you ever notice nothing ever seems to spin around?.when I was a kid all my familiy households there was a phonograph.."record player" and I loved to watch the records spin at 78 rpm, even the arm seemed to rock back and forth to the melodies it played.

Lakesides certainly do play well. Great volume and clarity. Direct recordings are always more pleasing.

BEAUTIFUL! These little Records are just AWESOME!

You know, considering the comparatively primitive technology, this sounds pretty darned good. Thank you for sharing this!

Beautiful. I sing tenor in a barbershop quartet and we sing this song. I have never seen an Edison 1A so that was a treat as well.

Unusually good sound for a cylinder player. My buddy had loads of them and all I say was they sucked for sound quality. This is superb and equal to the early 78s. Very impressive. Thanks for sharing.

A very nicely preserved audio and a wonderful sweet tenor voice. I've always liked this melody and this performance is one of the best I've heard. Thanks for posting this glimpse into the past.

This is a beautiful, strong performance, Doug. Even Walter Van Brunt would have to offer begrudging admiration! :-)

Those Lakesides sound great. They seem to have a shallow groove, but are loud and well recorded. The Amberola 1-A is one of my favorite machines.

These should have sold very well! This is just BEAUTIFUL!

Wow. What a great original recording of a classic that still has power today. Thanks for uploading this.

Absolutely stunning!

Sir, my hat is off to you! Your channel, your Musik, your equipment; is so stupendous! I CAN NOT GET ENOUGH OF LISTENING AND ENJOYING THE MUSIK! Please, give me more memories--of another life!!!! 🎼👍

I always enjoy your videos which are well done and give information before the music starts. I found a batch of Lakeside cylinders, some 2 minute and most 4 minute some 25 years ago. I haven't found but a few since then. They are very nice sounding too!

Amazing!!!

@EdisonSquirrel Thanks Rocky! I always enjoy reading your interesting comments. Thanks for stopping in for a visit!

Great sound! Love that song!

Sounds great for its age!!

wow this is very clean

Such a nice song. Thank you very much!

Thanks for the nice comments. The Lakesides and US Everlastings are wonderful cylinders and I buy as many as I can find of them - but they are not easy to find as you mention.

The 1A / Opera machines are far and away the best sounding cylinder players.

Thank you so much for this wonderful presentation. (: I love the music!

Sir: I would love to use a snippet of about a minute for a facebook post. Thanks and amazing recording!

Your text pieces are indeed informative. Now that I know you are doing this on purpose, I will wait it out and hear what you upload. At 48, I'm probably one of the youngest fans of this sort of music. thanks to youtube, it can live forever.

great cylinder but that box full of jewels wow to find something like that would be great

Let me call you sweetheart, they just might say it back!

I would LOVE to hear that “Irish Jigs” Cylander you have in that box... Could you play it and record it? :)

@mtnsca You are very welcome. And thank you for taking a moment to post a comment!

@PhonoboyAD1984 Good to hear that you enjoyed this. Thank you.

Great sound quality!

AWESOME!!!

@musicmandon1 I intentionally introduce many of my videos with informative text screens as well as silent video footage of the music machine and the recording itself that is about to be played. I make an assumption that the majority of viewers are able to see the video as well as hear it. Since you are unable to see the video it will continue to remain difficult to know when the audio portion of the video begins. With some patience you will eventually hear the audio.

Just lovely, thanks for sharing (:

@chompo7 Thank you Chompo! Always great to hear from you.

@IGOROZKARSKY I did not know that! I have many of Oliver Hardy's early silent films before he joined with Stan Laurel and really enjoy all silent comedy. Always good to hear little details about the early comedy pioneers. Thanks.

That's incredible...

I think of back in those days of horses and bad carriages a man like tom Edison made this marvel happen this guy was a gift from god he had to be look at all the things he done and done it deft

To listen to those Wards cylinder's full potential, you should try to find a "Thornward" phonograph

very nice,thanks as always!

The Amberola looks a damn sight better and more modern in comparison to the typical phonographs of the day.

@mayatatyana1 Thank you Maya! Good to see a comment from you again!

Thank you so much for your videos of vintage cylinders and discs played on authentic equipment! I was wondering if you have any cylinders of barbershop groups from this era, e.g., the American Quartet, Haydn Quartet, or Peerless Quartet? Thanks again!

Somewhere on YT igot the story of the girl from Columbia ,tTenn and her Jewish collaborater who wrote "Meet me tonight In Dreamland". The publisher made a mint on this instant hit, but he screwed the originators out of every nickel. Heartwarming outcome though. they came back a couple of years later with a megahit and this time-wonder of wonders- got their just rewards. Guess the name of that second song: Let Me Call You Sweetheart!

Perhaps he could take his sweetheart out sparking in his curved dash Oldsmobile

Great Cylinder and even greater machine! Were the Lakesides also released as Indestructibles or were they recorded just for them?

For song, skip to 2:50.

Yes - the U.S. Everlasting 2/4 minute cylinders were a quality product. The cores were a bit problematic (at least for modern-day collectors) as mice were attracted to them with the result often being that the cylinder edges are found with evidence of rodent "nibbling" tooth marks [the cores were a cardboard/rubber composition]. The cylinder surfaces [the grooved surfaces] were a rather thin sheet of celluloid which worked quite well but were prone to swelling/expansion if exposed to abrupt changes in temperature/humidity. Still - they were a fine product with better audio fidelity than in the acoustical lateral-cut discs marketed at the same time 1908-1912. Regretfully, the U.S. Everlasting Co. (with Albert Benzler, former Edison pianist/bells recording artist, now in the position of music director for a rival company) arrived a bit late as cylinders [as a format] had lost considerable ground to the more convenient handling/storage etc. found with the discs.

So someome is really claiming copyright on a 1910 recording? Crazy

You mention that the overall performance is far superior to an Edison Blue Amberol cylinder. I think you are correct, and the reason is probably because most of the 4-minute celluloid cylinders produced by the Edison plant were acoustically dubbed from diamond discs. But this is obviously a direct-to-cylinder recording.

Your videos are interesting, but why is there such a long delay before they start? this time, it was more than two minutes before the song began. I am blind, so I have no idea if there was picture then. all I could do was wonder if my computer was malfunctioning, as it so often does, until the song began. This is a song my grandfather sang several decades ago.

Tho this video is old, I currently have a working Edison victrola with over 200 cylinders

Mmm....Interesting. Actually I have never seen a cylinder record before. Is it still spinning at 78 rpm?

Downton Abby?

Moon river

Loud for an acoustic recording.

Amazing!

Moon river