16 - "UNITED RECORD" Label 78 rpm Records c.1908-1916 by United Talking Machine Co. Chicago, Illinois

Here are 16 different UNITED RECORD label 78 rpm records from the United Talking Machine Co, Chicago, Ill, c.1908-1916. This was a strictly mail-order phonograph company that sold phonographs with an oversized spindle, a little over 1-3/8" diameter. The only records you could play on them were, incidentally, sold by this same company via mail-order using their UNITED RECORD label. The United Talking Machine Company didn't actually make phonographs. Instead, they contracted Columbia Graphonola to make them, also in Chicago. As you'd expect, they look very similar to the Columbia phonographs of the period, only with the oversized spindle. They didn't actually make their own records, either. United bought unused pressings from Columbia Records, punched a bigger hole and pasted their label over Columbia's. Sometimes United changed the artist credit, and sometimes they didn't. All the records offered here are identical to the Columbia catalog, same songs, artists, and catalog numbers. Not too surprising. That being said, they are laterally cut so you can play them on a regular 78 rpm turntable if you get them centered. I've recorded a few and those titles are linked to mp3 files, if you want to listen. You can actually watch one play on YouTube HERE.

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A713 GOOD NIGHT MOONLIGHT / MY PONY BOY Recorded by the Peerless Quartet May, 1909 A758 BLITZ AND BLATZ IN AN AEROPLANE Recorded by Fred Duprez and Bob Roberts November, 1909 THEN WE'LL ALL GO HOME Recorded by Eddie Morton October, 1909 A927 GOOD-BYE, BETTY BROWN Recorded by Harry Tally September, 1910 'SCUSE ME TODAY Recorded by Byron Harlan October, 1910 A996 I USED TO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES / THE COTTAGE BY THE SEA Recorded by Frank Coombs February 9, 1911 A1036 CONGRESSMAN FILKIN'S HOME-COMING Recorded by Steve Porter and Byron Harlan February 10, 1911 THE OLD TIME STREET FAKIR Recorded by Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan April 20, 1911 A1146 BRASS BAND EPHRAHAM JONES Recorded by Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan February, 1912 WAY DOWN EAST WHERE I BELONG Recorded by Byron Harlan December, 1911 A1169 SHOUT ALL OVER GOD'S HEAVEN / SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT Recorded by the Apollo Jubilee Quartet February 26, 1912 A1188 GOING UP WITH THE ELEVATOR MAN / THE RAGTIME JOCKEY MAN Recorded by Maurice Burkhart May, 1912 A1223 KENTUCKY DAYS/ TENNESSE MOON Recorded by the Peerless Quartet September, 1909 (This one is cracked) A1326 ROLLING / YOU KNOW YOU WON'T Recorded by the Peerless Quartet March, 1913 A1358 THEY'VE GOT ME DOING IT NOW Recorded by Eddy Weston May 16, 1913 WE'VE GOT A PARROT IN OUR HOUSE Recorded by Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan May, 1913 A1369 A SONG OF CANADA Recorded by Andrea Sarto May, 1913 O, CANADA Recorded by the Columbia Mixed Quartet May, 1913 A1371 BARBARA FRIETCHIE Recorded by Edgar Davenport January, 1913 THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Recorded by Edgar Davenport March 13, 1913 A1378 LOVE ME WHILE THE LOVING IS GOOD Recorded by the Peerless Quartet July, 1913 SAILING DOWN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY Recorded by Al Campbell and Henry Burr July, 1913 A1390 LOVE ME / TWO EYES OF GRAY Recorded by John Beardsley 1908 A1413 BARNEY TAKE ME HOME AGAIN / THE SNOWY BREASTED PEARL Recorded by William Thomas 1913