Billy Murray & the Heidelberg Quintette sings - By the Beautiful Sea - Columbia Graphophone 1914

Here is Billy Murray, one of the most popular recording stars of the early 20th Century singing "By the Beautiful Sea" from 1914, backed by the Heidelberg Quintette. The song was composed by Harold Atteridge and Harry Carroll. The Columbia Graphophone is a Model AH (second style) from 1905. The AH was a "Front Mount" Graphophone with the horn attached directly to the reproducer (sound box). Later graphophones & gramophones were of the "rear mount" variety with the horn attached instead to the rear of a tapering tone arm, thus taking stress and weight off of the record and providing the ability to swivel the horn to the desired direction for play.

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Music

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• Columbia Graphophone
• Billy Murray
• By the Beautiful Sea
• Phonograph
• Gramophone
• 78rpm

[brad600dc]

Beautiful,I just love the acustic records as they have a mellow tone quality.I also wish to praise you for the unusually complete information you provide!

[victrolaman]

Thank you for your very positive comment. Being a history buff, I enjoy providing a complete detailed description of the record and artist as well as the gramophone, phonograph, or graphophone that is being featured as well. Thanks again.

[KawhackitaRag]

I can see why they loved Billy Murray. Besides being a great singer, his enuciation is perfect.

[boyhowdy364]

check out murray's renditions of cohan's "over there" and the standard hit "oh by jingo"

[boyhowdy364]

cool that people are re-discovering billy murray, who was one of america's biggest singing stars for 25 years -- from turn of the century to mid-20s. murray demonstrated well-tuned vocal clarity with an endearing colloquial enthusiasm -- people just loved whatever he performed, and some believed a song was not really "done" until murray did it.

[MRLOL785]

@ImpendingChocolate No, it would A) play way too fast (these older style machines only played at ~78 RPM, while modern vinyls play at 33 1/3 RPM and 45 RPM) and B) ruin the record with all that weight on the disc.

[Kell1295]

Love it! <3



[MrDougindixie]

thanks been looking for this one for years

[ImpendingChocolate]

see if you bought a modern day vinyl? would it work on a vintage gramophone

[fiftiesflashback1953]

A front mount! You certainly have som beautiful talking machines!

[Fiftiesflashback]

Joe and Jane were always together. Said Joe to Jane, "I love summer weather, So let's go to that beautiful sea, Follow along, Say you're with me!" Anything that Joe would suggest to her Jane would always think it was best for her. So he'd get his Ford, Holler: "ALL ABOARD! Gosh, I want to be:

[Fiftiesflashback]

By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea!

You and me, you and me, oh how happy we'll be!

When each wave comes a-rolling in

We will duck or swim,

And we'll float and fool around the water.

Over and under, and then up for air,

Pa is rich, Ma is rich, so now what do we care?

I love to be beside your side, beside the sea,

Beside the seaside, by the beautiful sea!

[vttv01]

This machine sounds great! Regards!