Dancing with the Phonograph

Dance featured in Phonograph Ads

 

This gallery displays advertisements where dancing, made possible by the phonograph, is "yours at a moment's notice."

 

An impromptu dance on a summer evening

 

 

 

"Loud enough for dancing." Munsey's Magazine, 1904

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"An Impromptu Dance with an Edison Phonograph," Pearson's Advertiser, 1906

 

 

Another consideration for close-up, impromptu dancing courtesy of the phonograph revolution, November 14, 1908, Colliers

 

 

 

 

The Edison Phonograph Monthly, August 1907

 

 

 

The Edison Phonograph Monthly, December 1912

 

Vernon Castle and Columbia Dance Records, The Theatre Magazine, 1914

 

 

 

 

 

"Dancing is delightful..." McCall's magazine, March, 1914 (Internet Archive)

Columbia Records, The Theatre Magazine, June 1915

 

 

Victor Catalog - New Victor Records for August 1916

 

 

 

 

 

"The instrument that is always ready to oblige with the best dance music..." Victor 1917

 

 

 

 

 

"Any time is dancing time" The Theatre Magazine June 1918

 

Vanity Fair, July 1917

 

 

 

The Saturday Evening Post, July 7, 1917

 

 

 

 

"Dance!" Life, February 26, 1914

 

 

 

1914

 

 

 

Ladies Home Companion, 1915

 

 

 

 

Columbia Graphophone 1916

 

 

 

 

"The perfect music for the perfect partner! "The Ladies Home Journal, April 1919

 

 

 

 

"My Dance!" The Ladies Home Journal, September 1919

 

 

 

"You can dance to the very last note." The Ladies Home Journal, April 1920

 

Emerson Dance Hits, The Saturday Evening Post, 1920

 

 

"And, oh, she dances such-a-way" The Delineator, October 1920

 

 

 

 

"Now we can dance" The Ladies Home Journal, June 1920

 

 

 

Victrola ad, 1920

 

 

There's real delight in dancing to the music of the Victrola

Artwork from 1921 Victrola ad

 

 

 

 

 

Illustration from Victrola ad, 1922

 

 

 

 

The Tango with Rudolph Valentine. The Talking Machine World, April 1923

 

 

Brunswick - The World's Greatest Dance Music Interpretation, The Saturday Evening Post, 1923

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"Play it...and dance!" The Ladies Home Journal, July 1926

 

 

 

 

The Victrola beats out the deep measures that inspire good dancing." The Ladies Home Journal, 1926

 

 

BOOM...boom...the beat of the bass - Literary Digest November 19, 1927 (color version)

 

RCA Radiola Barn Dance, 1926

 

 

 

RCA Victor, 1951

 

 

 

Webcor, House & Garden, 1961

 

 

 

 

 

 

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