John Yorke Atlee - The Anvil Chorus 1898 Whistling Music (Brown Wax Cylinder)

Описание: Columbia Phonograph Company (Brown Wax Cylinder) John Yorke Atlee - The Anvil Chorus 1898 Whistling Song.
John Yorke Atlee was one of the earliest stars of the American phonograph industry. A Detroit native, Atlee ultimately settled in Washington, D.C. where he worked as a minor U.S. Government official. To make ends meet, he began appearing in vaudeville playhouses as a professional whistler. Whistling, due to its high pitch and penetration, was an ideal performance medium for early recording technology, and in 1890, Atlee began to make cylinders for the Washington, D.C.-based Columbia Phonograph Company; by the end of 1891 already 36 titles by Atlee were advertised in the Columbia bulletins. Atlee's records sold well for Columbia, and he stayed with them until 1896 when he left to join the staff at Berliner's fledgling flat-disc recording concern, also in Washington. At the end of 1898, Atlee retired from recording and went into record retail, managing the phonograph department at Duston-Smith's piano store in Charleston, South Carolina.
Goodwin Yorke Atlee (28 January 1842 - 1 April 1910) was one of the first commercially successful recording artists, making mostly cylinders in the 1890s.