The Victor New Records for JANUARY 1919

Popular Culture Connections with Victor's Records released in January 1919

A customer in 1919 entering a phonograph shop that sold Victor Records could have seen signage just like this one announcing The JANUARY Victor Records are here.

As the phonograph increased in popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century more stores were selling phonographs and records and some of the larger phonograph dealers were even adding listening booths and rooms. But there didn't have to be a special listening area in a store -- the idea was to get consumers to visit a dealer and listen for themselves.

"What would you like to hear?" asked Columbia's 1918 advertisement.

"Hearing is Believing -- And you can hear today at the nearest Columbia dealer's."

Records often closely followed the release of new sheet music from musicals and popular songs of the day. The first record on the January 1919 Victor New Records list is a good example with its "I Can Always Find Sunshine a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A." from Irving Berlin's 1918 musical review "Yip-Yip-Yaphank."

Select any sheet music from below and listen, or use the playlist created from the Victor New Records January 1919 dealer's broadside.

Other phonograph connections from the January 1919 edition of phonograph industry's trade magazine The Talking Machine World are at the end of this gallery.

 

See the enlarged January 1919 14" x 36" Victor Broadside

Select any sheet music from below and listen to its Victor Record, or use the playlist created from dealer's broadside for the Victor New Records January 1919.

PLAYLIST of the New Records for January 1919 by Title

After You've Gone sung by Marion Harris, Victor Number 18509-A (matrix B-22160) recorded 10/18/1918 (9)

The Americans Come! Sung by Reinald Werrenrath, Victor Number 45157- A (matrix B-22262) recorded 10/28/1918 (1)

Andante Cantabile by Elman String Quartet, Victor Red Seal Record Number 74575 (matrix C-21497) recorded 3/11/1918 (22)

The Bluebird by Elsie Baker, Victor Number 45156-B (matrix B-22252) recorded 9/24/1918 (6)

La Boheme -- O soave fanciulla by Frances Alda and Giovanni Martinelli, Victor Red Seal Record Number 88597 (matrix C-22245) recorded 9/20/1918 (19)

Dreaming of Home Sweet Home sung by Charles Harrison, Victor Number 18508-A (matrix B-22288) recorded 11/04/1918 (7)

Garibaldi's Hymn by Enrico Caruso, Victor Red Seal Record Number 87297 (matrix C-22260) recorded 9/26/1918 (21)

Good-Bye, Alexander Fox Trot (Including: "My Mind's Made Up to Marry Carolina") by Bernie and Baker, Victor Number 18499-B (matrix B-22071) recorded 7/26/1918 (14)

Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip! by Arthur Fields and Peerless Quartet, Victor Number 18510-B (matrix B-22264) recorded 10/23/1918 (12)

Hatikva by Alma Gluck and Efrem Zimbalist, Victor Red Seal Record Number 87296 (matrix B-22232) recorded 9/11/1918 (23)

I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A. by Lambert Murphy and Orpheus Quartet, Victor Number 45157-B (matrix B-22261) recorded 10/31/1918 (2)

I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry by Henry Burr, Victor Number 18509-B (matrix B-22290) recorded 10/23/1918 (10)

A Little Birch Canoe and You sung by Olive Kline and Orpheus Quartet, Victor Number 45156-A (matrix B-22263) recorded 10/31/1918 (5)

Madama Butterfly - Tutti i fior by Frances Alda-Sophie Braslau, Victor Red Seal Record Number 88597 (matrix C-22244) recorded 9/20/1918 (18)

Mary - Fox Trot by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Victor Number 18499-A (matrix B-22077) recorded 7/29/1918 (15)

Onward Christian Soldiers by Schumann-Heink, Victor Red Seal Record Number 87298 (matrix B-22184) recorded 7/30/1918 (26)

Rock-a-Bye Baby Fox Trot by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Victor Number 18499-B ( matrix B-22078) recorded 7/29/1918 (15)

The Rose of No Man's Dream duet by Charles Hart and Elliott Shaw, Victor Number 18508-B (matrix B-22411) recorded 11/08/1918 (8)

Sounds of the Forest (Part 1) by Charles Kellogg (The Nature Singer), Victor Number 55092-A (matrix C-21289) recorded 12/26/1917 (16)

Sounds of the Forest (Part 2) by Charles Kellogg, Victor Number 55092-B (matrix C-21288) recorded 12/26/1917 (17)

Waters of Venice -- Waltz by Bernie and Baker, Victor Number 18499-A (matrix B-22072) recorded 7/26/1918 (13)

When Tony Goes Over the Top sung by Billy Murray, Victor Number 18510-A (matrix B-22289) recorded 10/23/1918 (11)

When You Come Back by John McCormack, Victor Red Seal Record Number 64791 (matrix B-22256) recorded 9/25/1918 (24)

 

January 1919 "Songs Across the Sea," The Ladies' Home Journal

Other January 1919 Phonograph Connections

See Phonograph ads and services in the January 1919 Talking Machine World.

Advice for Record Lists - "Don't throw away last month's record hanger."

The Talking Machine World, September 1917

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