Welcome to the first episode of The Blue Amberol Hour! This episode will be dedicated to Halloween - all the cylinders you'll hear today will be spooky or left-of-center in some way. 

Danse macabre. [Danse macabre (Symphonic poem); arranged] - Violin solo by Carmen Forte; with piano accompaniment & crying baby

Witch of the wave. medley ; reels (violin) - Joseph Samuels

Chopin's funeral march. [Sonatas, no. 2, op. 35, B♭ minor; piano, arranged] - Edison Concert Band  

Dance of the skeletons. - Sodero's Band

Funeral march of a marionet. [Funeral march of a marionette] - American Standard Orchestra

Davy Jones' locker. - Fred East

Various Aleister Crowley cylinders mixed with harp concertos 

Elks' funeral odes. - Knickerbocker Quartet

Hamlet: ghost scene. - Edward Brigham 

The vampire : dance characteristic - Sodero's Band 

Edison Talking Doll clip

I'm afraid of you. - Manuel Romain and chorus

When shadows fall. - Weltzin B. Blix

Witches. - George Wilton Ballard

The dying girl's message. - Vernon Dalhart and Company

[Brown wax home recording of group singing Nearer, my God, to thee and man reciting part of Psalm 103, Auburn (?), Illinois, November 24, 1898].

I've got the mumps. - Irene Franklin

The wreck of the Maine. - George J. Gaskin

The little rosewood casket. - Vernon Dalhart and Company 

That creepy weepy feeling. - Jaudas' Society Orchestra

The magic mirror waltzes. - Ernest L. Stevens trio 

I.O.O.F. funeral ode. - Knickenbocker Quartet 

[Brown wax home recording of group singing with organ]. 

Satan, I'm here :. I couldn't stand for a triflin' man - Ernest Hare 

The worst is yet to come. - Billy Murray and Chorus of Girls

The ragtime goblin man. - Collins and Harlan

The laughing auctioneer. - Monologue by W.O. Beckenbaugh

Background music/intro is from my album Cylinder Loops. 

The Blue Amberol Hour is a program dedicated to one of the earliest forms of recorded media - the wax cylinder. You will hear roughly two carefully curated hours of rare wax cylinder recordings from the late 1800s and beyond that center around a particular theme - a time period, country, specific instrument and more.

Hali Palombo is a composer, visual artist, filmmaker, shortwave radio enthusiast, and amateur historian from the Midwestern United States. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about radio and the Midwestern United States from a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings, and paintings.