Archeophone Records
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 Champaign, Illinois. Archeophone restores and remasters audio from cylinders and discs of jazz, popular music, vaudeville, and spoken word recordings.
Archeophone has released recordings by Billy Murray, Bert Williams, Guido Deiro, Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth, Eddie Morton, 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, Henry Burr, Bob Roberts, Ada Jones, Fred Van Eps, Sophie Tucker, Harry Lauder, and the American, Peerless, and Haydn Quartets.
The company is not affiliated with the Archéophone manufacturer Henri Chamoux.Awards and honors
Best Album Notes
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- Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph
- Sophie Tucker, Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910–1922
- There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916
- Isham Jones, Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides
- Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra, Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925
- Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1900
