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A stage name from the early recording era, this act is remembered through a handful of comic vaudeville pieces preserved in audio archives. The surviving work has the quick, playful energy of turn-of-the-century popular entertainment.
by Edison Vaudeville Company
Edison Vaudeville Company appears in modern catalogs mainly as the credited performer of Three Rubes Seeing New York, an early comic recording now listed by Project Gutenberg. The Gutenberg author page shows just that one work, which suggests this was likely a recording or ensemble credit rather than a well-documented individual writer.
Archive listings connect the act with recordings from 1907, including Three Rubes Seeing New York and An Amateur Minstrel Rehearsal. Some catalog records also associate the group with performers such as Billy Murray, Steve Porter, and Byron G. Harlan, though the surviving sources do not fully clarify the exact membership of the company in every release.
Because so little reliable biographical information survives, the best way to think of Edison Vaudeville Company is as part of the lively vaudeville and phonograph culture of the early 20th century: short, comic performances made for listeners at the dawn of recorded entertainment.