DAHR (adp.library.ucsb.edu) is the authoritative database of recordings made during the 78rpm era, documenting over 450K masters with free access to over 80K streaming recordings from public and private collections.https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mknffdvqui2nLeroy Carter recorded 8 selections for Brunswick in October of 1935. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/401785/Carter_Leroy29 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknffdvqui2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mkig2fvtld2tLondon String Quartet made over 150 recordings for Columbia in 1914-28. The quartet was very prolific and toured internationally, becoming one of the best known quartets of the 20th century. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/104365/London_String_Quartet27 Apr 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkig2fvtld2thttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mkdcm6rvp32sKlaus Salmi was a Finnish conductor, musician, and composer. He founded and led the legendary Finnish orchestra Ramblers-Orkesteri. He made 163 recordings for Columbia and Triola in 1936-52. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/355442/Salmi_Klaus25 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdcm6rvp32shttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mkasw6i43y2nWaikiki Hawaiian Orchestra recorded “While Hawaiian stars are gleaming” for Edison on May 26, 1925. It was composed by Joe Davis under the pseudonym Roxanne Hampton. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000157259/24 Apr 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkasw6i43y2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mk3s4mv5js2vHattie Hart recorded 26 selections for Victor and ARC in 1929-34. Her collaborators on these records included Allen Shaw and Memphis Jug Band. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/109809/Hart_Hattie22 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3s4mv5js2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mjwr4lffpl2cJ. H. Squire Celeste Octet made 40 recordings for Columbia in 1925-29. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/322786/J._H._Squire_Celeste_Octet20 Apr 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwr4lffpl2chttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mjrqdrathq2qToday is the 120th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Columbia issued a "descriptive" account shortly after. Discographihc details here, audio is on YouTube. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000139047/3490-Destruction_of_San_Francisco18 Apr 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrqdrathq2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mjrpdcuewa2vViola Turpeinen was a well-known American Finnish polka accordion player. She made 40 recordings for Victor and Columbia in 1928-38. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/106265/Turpeinen_Viola18 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrpdcuewa2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mjp7ns46ha2vCountry music singer Kelly Harrell recorded “I was born about ten thousand years ago” for OKeh on August 25, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000201406/17 Apr 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp7ns46ha2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mjk6ubq7bs2jLouis Lasky recorded 11 selections for Victor and Brunswick in 1935-42. His collaborators on these records included Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/353260/Lasky_Louis15 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjk6ubq7bs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mjf5tdeodm2uDebroy Somers Band made 28 recordings for Columbia in 1927-29, with several featuring vocalists Victor Carne, George Dewey Washington, or Tom Barratt. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/402222/Debroy_Somers_Band13 Apr 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf5tdeodm2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mja42trdqu2xOlavi Virta was a Finnish singer known in his time as the "King" of Finnish tango. He made 34 recordings for Columbia between August 1-14, 1939. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/409060/Virta_Olavi11 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mja42trdqu2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mj5mfld2wm2tFrantišek A. Pangrác recorded “Jsou, jsou na potoce” for Edison on January 8, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000156915/10 Apr 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5mfld2wm2thttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3miylkfkr5b22Fred McMullen recorded 16 selections for ARC in January of 1933. His collaborators on these records included Georgia Browns and the blues musician Curley Weaver. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/402358/McMullen_Fred08 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3miylkfkr5b22https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mitklkhq662nUnder conductor Willem Mengelberg, Concertgebouworkest made 50 recordings for Columbia in 1926-29. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/102367/Concertgebouworkest06 Apr 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitklkhq662nhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3miokdmlzcb25In 1930, Columbia introduced the Y matrix block for recordings intended for Finland. Prior to that, Columbia exported recordings by Finnish-Americans for sale in Finland. Data on all Finnish and Finnish-American Columbia discs is now online. Columbia Y matrix block: tinyurl.com/DAHRColumbiaY04 Apr 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3miokdmlzcb25https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mim2ps652526New York String Quartet, composed of Ottokar Cadek (violin), Jaroslav Siskovsky (violin), Ludwig Schwab (viola), and Bedrich Vaska (cello), recorded “Quartet in G minor : 1st movement” for Brunswick on May 28, 1925. Now in the Public Domain. Link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000219755/03 Apr 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mim2ps652526https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mijnwmzxvz22Another 2,125 digitized recordings have been added to DAHR. Highlights include: Over 900 Vocalion discs digitized for our NEH grant Over 500 Imperial discs from the Richard Reicheg collection 400 more test pressings from the Michael Brooks collection https://www.library.ucsb.edu/recordings-added-dahr-april-2-202602 Apr 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijnwmzxvz22https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3migycc37nb2tBlack Bottom McPhail recorded 10 selections for Brunswick in 1932 and 1938. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/403113/McPhail_Black_Bottom01 Apr 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3migycc37nb2thttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mibxdwnycg2nA. W. Ketèlbey's Concert Orchestra made 27 recordings for Columbia in 1927-29, with several featuring contralto Nellie Walker. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/404229/A._W._Ketlbeys_Concert_Orchestra30 Mar 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibxdwnycg2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mi4vlh3z7q26Six sides were recorded by baritone Lawrence Tibbett and pianist Stewart Wille on 1/4/1940 at Victor’s New York Studio 1. Includes works by Handel and Schubert, and also the English composer Arthur Sommervell’s song, “A kingdom by the sea." Session data below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/104286/Tibbett_Lawrence28 Mar 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi4vlh3z7q26https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mi2fxbhww225Violinist Albert Spalding and pianist André Benoist recorded Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria” for Brunswick on April 9, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000219539/27 Mar 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2fxbhww225https://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhxwmyjmp42yOver 1,600 test pressings from the Michael Brooks collection have been digitized and are now online. A list of the discs is here: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/digitized-test-pressings-michael-brooks-collection Thousands more are coming. Stay tuned!26 Mar 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxwmyjmp42yhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhvg5xjgyx2dSession data is now available for 27 recordings that Herman Finck's Orchestra made for Columbia from 1923-29. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/109503/Finck_Herman?Matrix%5BCompany%5D=Columbia+%28U.K.%29&Matrix%5Btype_search%5D=&Matrix%5BAudio%5D=&Matrix%5BPressed%5D=25 Mar 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvg5xjgyx2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhqdwuv2sh2gOrchester Isy Geiger made 12 recordings for Columbia in 1924-25 in Vienna, Austria. Session data is now available. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/401906/Orchester_Isy_Geiger23 Mar 2026 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqdwuv2sh2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhlcbiymzl2qMusic by Dimitri Tiomkin from David O. Selznick’s film Duel in the sun, performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra under Arthur Fiedler, was recorded at Boston’s Symphony Hall in July 1946. Released as set M/DM-1083. Session data at the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/569111/Victor_M-108321 Mar 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlcbiymzl2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhisoevrqf2zBaritone and composer Felipe Llera, Sr. recorded “Corridos” for Victor on August 31, 1925. It is now in the Public Domain. Session data and audio at the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800007461/20 Mar 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhisoevrqf2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhgbepkhyt2zAs requested by some of our users, below is a list of all of the digitized recordings from the Dust-to-Digital Foundation (excluding Joe Bussard's discs) currently accessible through DAHR. https://www.library.ucsb.edu/dust-digital-foundation-recordings-dahr19 Mar 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgbepkhyt2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mhdswfzovt2gSarah and her Milk Bull (Sarah is Sarah Jacobs, and her milk bull is presumably Walter Jacobs) cut the first to JAX matrixes on October 10, 1935. Neither were issued (sadly). Session data online. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/402574/Sarah_and_her_Milk_Bull18 Mar 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdswfzovt2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/discography.bsky.social/post/3mh6r7hjqfj2zSession data is now available for 43 recordings that Wireless Symphony Orchestra, under the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and its director of music Percy Pitt, made for Columbia from 1924-28. See the link below. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/360628/Wireless_Symphony_Orchestra16 Mar 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:lamau3bxv5uzfsoxfcs5bqnq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6r7hjqfj2z