Archeophone Records is a record company and label founded in 1998 to document the early days of America's recording history. It was started by Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey, a husband and wife who run the company in

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. Archeophone restores and remasters audio from cylinders and discs of

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, and

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recordings. Archeophone has released recordings by Billy Murray,

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, Guido Deiro,

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, and by jazz ensembles the Six Brown Brothers, the Benson Orchestra of Chicago, and Art Hickman's Orchestra. Compilations include Vess Ossman, Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan,

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, Bob Roberts,

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, and the American,

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, and Haydn Quartets. The company is not affiliated with the Archéophone manufacturer Henri Chamoux.

Awards and honors

Grammy Award for Best Historical Album The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979 and recognizes achievements in audio restoration. Since this category's creation, the award had several minor name changes: *In 1979 the award was known as Best Historical R ...

, ''Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1891–1922'', 2006

Grammy Award nominations

Best Historical Album * '' Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s'' (2007) * ''Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph'' (2008) * ''Sophie Tucker, Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922'' (2009) * ''Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides'' (2014) * ''Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1900'' (2016) Best Album Notes * '' Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s'' (2007) * ''Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph'' (2008) * ''Sophie Tucker, Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910–1922'' (2009) * ''There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916'' (2010) * ''Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides'' (2014) * ''Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925'' (2015) * ''Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1900 (2016)''

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External links

* {{Authority control American record labels Reissue record labels Jazz record labels Companies based in Champaign County, Illinois Champaign, Illinois

Awards and honors

Grammy Award nominations

See also

References

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