A recent 78 rpm discovery... Here is a 1935 British dance band recording as played on my RCA-Victor Radiola 47 (dating from 1929). The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra is led from the piano by George Scott Wood in "Don't Stand in the Doorway". HMV B.D.5003 (matrix OEA 2634-1). My iPad's mic doesn't quite do this magnificent phonograph justice, but it's a reasonable fascimile.
WOW. I had no idea you could get that quality of sound off of a phonograph. AND I've never heard old wax in such good condition. Amazing.
Why not use this same thread (I asked myself) to post another, this of a more classical bent, and using another Electrola in my collection? Recorded in 1931, famed Ukranian-Jewish bass Alexander Kipnis is accompanied by Arthur Bergh, piano, in this aria from Handel's opera "Berenice". From Colombia 50261-D, reproduced here on a wonderful-sounding RCA-Victor RE-45 Radio-Electrola from 1929. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kipnis