The following very incomplete list of Blue Amberol Records is ranked by issue number, title, writer(s), performer(s) and date. Blue Amberols are more commonly seen today than earlier Edison 2-minute brown or black wax and 4-minute black wax Amberol records. These were designed to be played on an Amberola, a type of Edison machine specially designed for celluloid records that did not play older wax cylinders. Nevertheless, the Blue Amberol format was the longest-lived cylinder record series employed by the Edison Company. The issue numbers are not necessarily continuous as some titles were not released, or otherwise skipped. The Edison company also maintained separate issue number ranges for foreign, classical and special series that are not included here. The first release in the main, Popular series was number 1501, and the last, 5719, issued in October 1929 just as the Edison Records concern closed up shop.
Made from a nitrocellulose compound developed at the Edison laboratory-though occasionally employing Bakelite in its stead and always employing an inner layer of plaster-these cylinder records were introduced for public sale in October 1912. Blue Amberol Records was the trademark for a type of cylinder recording manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S.
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