Vitaphone Varieties
Vitaphone Varieties is a series title used for all of Warner Bros.' earliest short film "talkies" of the 1920s, initially made using the Vitaphone sound on disc process before a switch to the sound-on-film format early in the 1930s. These were the first major film studio-backed sound films, initially showcased with the 1926 synchronized scored features Don Juan and The Better 'Ole. Although independent producers like Lee de Forest's Phonofilm were successfully making sound film shorts as early as 1922, they were very limited in their distribution and their audio was generally not as loud and clear in theaters as Vitaphone's. The success of the early Vitaphone shorts, initially filmed only in New York, helped launch the sound revolution in Hollywood.
Overview
The series featured many great vaudeville and musical performers of the 1920s. Classical musicians who dominated the early days of recorded sound made their film debuts, along with the many future stars of radio's "golden age": Fred Allen, Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Jack Haley just to name a few. Several top stars at Warner Bros. and other studios like Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, William Demarest, Claire Trevor, Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy first appeared on screen in ten-minute dramatic and comedy sketches, as did a few silent stars making the transition like Blanche Sweet.Al Jolson filmed A Plantation Act in August 1926, a full year before The Jazz Singer. When Warner Brothers decided to promote the feature as Jolson's talkie debut, the earlier short was removed from circulation. Initially thought lost, it was restored, in part by the Vitaphone Project's efforts, for a laser disc set in the 1990s and later released on DVD with the feature.At the time, there was much fear that these little films would kill vaudeville, a fear that was justified for many individual performers. While there was always a chance that a stage performer could become a household name by appearing in these, his or her act could no longer be repeated on stage, town after town, once one filmed performance appeared in theaters across the country. A few comedy acts for Vitaphone even made light of this fact, particularly Georgie Price’s 1929 title, Don't Get Nervous.
Although the term "Vitaphone Variety" was still used with some Warner film shorts running under one reel well into the 1950s, the trade periodicals marketed them under different logos after the 1931–32 season: Pepper Pots and Vitaphone Novelties, while lengthier productions morphed into the Broadway Brevities. By this time, the primary producer in charge was Samuel Sax, who oversaw the majority of the New York filmed productions. Later titles completed in California in the forties and fifties sometimes recycled the "Vitaphone Variety" logo, but were usually marketed in the trade periodicals as either "Hollywood Novelties" or "Warner Novelties" and were mostly documentary rather than musical or comedy acts. Among this later group, two 1945-46 titles, Story of a Dog and Smart as a Fox, were nominees for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in the one-reel category.
Recent rediscovery
The impact that the earliest Vitaphone Varieties had on world cinema has been a frequent footnote in many film history books, but it was only in recent decades that books have bothered to analyze them in depth.The Vitaphone Project only started in 1991 rounding up missing discs and matching them with films made before the studio switched to optical film soundtracks. Three years later, MGM/UA issued the first group of them to laser disc, with Warner releasing the first significant number on DVD as part of a multi-disc edition of The Jazz Singer. Since then, the Warner Archive Collection has made more available in a series of sets, as well as re-releasing Don Juan with its accompanying shorts.
List of Vitaphone Varieties
The following list is not complete but fairly close. The 1926–1932 titles are arranged by the Vitaphone title card numbers. They are then grouped by the year in which they were filmed, but not necessarily the same year they were released to theaters. If known, that date is listed right after the major credits. Sometimes the date Film Daily reviewed it or the copyright date is listed. DVD availability is also listed at the end of each line.1926
Listed by Vitaphone number. Filmed in 1926 in New York City.| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Performers | Notes |
| 116 | Pagliacci | February 1926 | Pagliacci & Vitaphone Symphony | First Warner Bros. short films |
| 131 | Bob Witt and Cy Berg | April 1926 | Bob Witt & Cy Berg with Vitaphone Symphony | - |
| 165 | Rin Tin Tin | April 1926 | Rin Tin Tin and Corporal Lee Duncan | test film |
| 178 | The Volga Boatman | May 1926 | Vitaphone Symphony | |
| 183 | An Evening on the Don | August 6, 1926 | Shown at the premiere of Don Juan. | |
| 192 | Introduction of Vitaphone Sound Pictures | August 6, 1926 | Will H. Hays | Don Juan DVD |
| Giovanni Martinelli | August 6, 1926 | Giovanni Martinelli | Don Juan DVD | |
| 263 | Overture to Mignon | August 6, 1926 | Henry Kimball Hadley & the New York Philharmonic | - |
| 274 & 275 | Mischa Elman | August 6, 1926 | Mischa Elman | Don Juan DVD |
| 278 | Polonaise in A Flat | © April 7, 1927 | Harold Bauer | |
| 281 | Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Duet | August 6, 1926 | Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer | Don Juan DVD |
| 294 | La Fiesta | August 6, 1926 | Anna Case, The Cansinos, Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Don Juan DVD |
| 296 | Swanee River | © April 8, 1927 | Anna Case, Roy Smeck & the Dixie Jubilee Singers | - |
| 301 | The Recording | Doris Becker | - | |
| 302 | His Pastimes | August 6, 1926 | Roy Smeck | Don Juan DVD |
| 308 | Marion Talley | August 6, 1926 | Marion Talley | Don Juan DVD |
| 314 | Overture Tannhäuser | August 6, 1926 | Henry Kimball Hadley & the New York Philharmonic | Don Juan DVD |
| 316 | Overture William Tell | August 6, 1926 | The New York Philharmonic | - |
| 339 | Behind the Lines | October 7, 1926 | Elsie Janis | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole ; The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 349 | Between the Acts at the Opera | October 7, 1926 | Willie and Eugene Howard | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole ; Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts DVD |
| 355 | George Jessel A Theatrical Booking Office | October 7, 1926 | George Jessel | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole |
| 359 | A Plantation Act | October 7, 1926 | Al Jolson | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole ; The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 361 & 365 | Reinald Werrenrath | © March 12, 1927 | Reinald Werrenrath | ; Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole |
| 366 | Modern Song and Syncopation | © April 2, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats - Eddie Lewis, Fred Weber, Bert Bennet & Tom Miller | - |
| 379 | Mme Schumann-Heink | © April 2, 1927 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | - |
| 380 | Madame Schumann-Heink | © April 4, 1927 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | - |
| 381 | The Spirit of 1918 Overture | October 7, 1926 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole |
| 383 | Way Down South | October 7, 1926 | Mary Lewis | - |
| 390 & 391 | Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra | October 7, 1926 | Vincent Lopez | |
| 392 | Charles Hackett | © March 12, 1927 | Charles Hackett | - |
| 393 | A Studio Scene | October 7, 1926 | Bruce Bairnsfather | - |
| 394 | Jack Smith the Whispering Baritone | © March 12, 1927 | Whispering Jack Smith | - |
| 416 & 417 | English Singers | © April 2, 1927 | Flora Mann, Lillian Berger, Norman Stone, Nellie Carson, Norman Motley and Cuthbert Kelly | |
| 418 | What Price Piano | © March 12, 1927 | Pauline Alpert | - |
| 419 | Pauline Alpert | © March 12, 1927 | Pauline Alpert | - |
| ? | Casey at the Bat | 1926 | DeWolf Hopper | - |
1927
Listed by Vitaphone number. Filmed in 1927 both in Brooklyn and Hollywood| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Performers | Additional notes |
| 289 | John Barclay, Tallest Baritone in the World | © April 4, 1927 | John Barclay | - |
| 395 | Gus Van & Joe Schenck | February 3, 1927 | Van and Schenck | Shown at the premiere of When a Man Loves |
| 414 | Beniamino Gigli, assisted By M. Picco and Minna Egener and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus | February 3, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli | Shown at the premiere of When a Man Loves |
| 415 | Quartet from Rigoletto | February 3, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe De Luca, Jeanne Gordon and Marion Talley | Shown at the premiere of When a Man Loves |
| Cliff Edwards | March 1927 | Cliff Edwards | - | |
| 420 | The Rollickers | © April 2, 1927 | Rollickers | - |
| 422 | Hawaiian Nights | February 3, 1927 | Hawaiian Orchestra | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 423 | Margaret McKee, Famous Whistler | © April 2, 1927 | Margaret McKee | - |
| 424-425 | Rex Schepp, Famous Banjo Player | © April 2, 1927 | Rex Schepp | - |
| 428 | Waring's Pennsylvanians | © March 16, 1927 | Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 434 & 435 | Neville Fleeson & Gladys Baxter "Vaudeville Headliners" | February 11, 1927 | Neville Fleeson & Gladys Baxter | |
| 438 | Albert Spalding, Renowned American Violinist | © April 4, 1927 | Albert Spalding | - |
| 439 | Albert Spalding, Renowned American Violinist | August 19, 1928 | Albert Spalding | - |
| 441 & 442 | Buddy Doyle, Popular Black Faced Comedian | © April 4, 1927 | Buddy Doyle | |
| 443 | Bernado De Pace "Wizard of the Mandolin" | April 4, 1927 | Bernardo De Pace | The Jazz Singer DVD. Title card misspells De Pace's name |
| 444 | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Impersonated and Interpreted by Lincoln Caswell | © April 4, 1927 | Lincoln Caswell | - |
| 445 & 446 | The Little Princess of Song | © April 4, 1927 | Sylvia Froos | |
| 447 | The Poet and Peasant Overture | © April 18, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 448 | The Light Cavalry Overture | © June 29, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 449 | The Raymond Overture | © April 18, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 450 | The Morning, Noon and Night Overture | © April 9, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 451 | Frances Alda and the Vitaphone Symphony | © April 9, 1927 | Frances Alda | - |
| 461 | The Orpheus Overture | © April 18, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 462 | The Evolution of Dixie Overture | © July 2, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 463 | Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, International Stars of Syncopation | © April 9, 1927 | Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake | - |
| 464 | Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, International Stars of Syncopation | © April 18, 1927 | Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake | - |
| 465 | Pennant Winning Battery of Songland | © April 9, 1927 | - | - |
| 466 | The Flonzaley Quartet, the World's Foremost String Ensemble | © April 18, 1927 | Flonzaley Quartet with Adolfo Betti & Alfred Pochon, Iwan D'Archambeau & Nicolas Moldavan | - |
| 467 | The Flonzaley Quartet, the World's Foremost String Ensemble | © April 18, 1927 | The Flonzaley Quartet | - |
| 468 | Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra | 1927 | Roger Wolfe Kahn & Mound City Blue Blowers | - |
| 469 | Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra | February 1927 | Roger Wolfe Kahn with Henri Garden & the Williams Sisters | - |
| 472 & 473 | Bert Lewis "Broadway's Comedian" | © April 9, 1927 | Bert Lewis with Jack Carroll at piano | |
| 474 | Giovanni Martinelli Assisted by Jeanne Gordon | © April 18, 1927 | Giovanni Martinelli | - |
| 475 | Isa Kremer, the Supreme Interpreter of Ballad and Folk Songs | © April 9, 1927 | Isa Kremer | - |
| 476 | The Bennett Twins | © April 9, 1927 | Bennett Twins | - |
| 477 | A Naval Quartet | © July 2, 1927 | The Admirals | - |
| 479 | Lyrics of Life | © April 18, 1927 | May Usher | - |
| 480 | Ruth Glanville, America's Premiere Saxophonist | © April 9, 1927 | Ruth Glanville & the Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 481 | John Charles Thomas, Renowned Stage and Concert Artist | © April 18, 1927 | John Charles Thomas | - |
| 482 & 483 | The Revelers | © April 18, 1927 | the Revelers | ; Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 DVD |
| 484 | A Moonlight Romance | © April 18, 1927 | Douglas Stanbury & Maria Gambarelli | - |
| 485 | The Morrisey and Miller Vitaphone Revue | © April 18, 1927 | Will Morrisey & Midgie Miller with Dave Ferguson, John Agee's dancing bull and "black bottom" horse, the Vitaphone Chorus & Gene Salzer's Orchestra. | - |
| 488 | The Barber of Seville | © May 6, 1927 | Giuseppe De Luca | frequently aired on Turner Classic Movies |
| 490 | A Russian Wedding Celebration | © April 19, 1927 | Moscow Art Ensemble | - |
| 491 | Eddie Conrad, Broadway's Favorite Comedian | © April 19, 1927 | Eddie Conrad with Charlotte Conrad & ballerina Marion Eddy | - |
| 492 | Johnny Marvin, Musical Comedy Star and Victor Recording Artist | © July 2, 1927 | Johnny Marvin with Murray Kellner on violin, Andy Sannella on guitar and Frank Banta on piano | - |
| 493 & 494 | John Charles Thomas and Vivienne Segal | © April 18, 1927 | John Charles Thomas & Vivienne Segal | |
| 496 | The Reformer | © June 29, 1927 | Joe Browning | - |
| 498 | Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company | © May 6, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli | - |
| 499 | Marion Talley and Beniamino Gigli | © June 29, 1927 | Marion Talley & Beniamino Gigli | - |
| 500 | California Collegians | released? | - | |
| 501 | Raymond Eisman, the Little Artist | © July 2, 1927 | Raymond Eisman | - |
| 503 | Utica Jubilee Singers | © May 7, 1927 | - | |
| 505 | Twinkle Twinkle | April 1927 | Joe E. Brown | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 507 | At the Ball Game | May 7, 1927 | Leo Carrillo | - |
| 509 | Giovanni Martinelli Assisted by Louis D'Angelo | April 1927 | Giovanni Martinelli | - |
| 510 | Giovanni Martinelli | April 1927 | Giovanni Martinelli | - |
| 512 | A Song Recital | © June 29, 1927 | Hearst Radio Kids | - |
| 515 | The Kouns Sisters, the Mirror Voiced Sopranos | © July 2, 1927 | Nellie & Sarah Kouns | - |
| 517 | Beniamino Gigli Singing Selections from Act 2 of the Opera La Gioconda | © June 29, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli | - |
| 518 | The Pearl Fishers | © March 15, 1928 | Beniamino Gigli & Giuseppe De Luca | - |
| 519 | Florence Moore and Lt. Gitz Rice | © February 18, 1928 | Florence Moore & Lieutenant Gitz Rice | - |
| 521 | Carlos Sedano, Celebrated Concert Violinist | © June 29, 1927 | Carlos Sedano | - |
| 524 | Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini | © May 19, 1927 | Rosa Raisa & Giacomo Rimini | - |
| 527 & 528 | The Yacht Club Boys, Popular Instrumental and Vocal Group | © June 29, 1927 | Yacht Club Boys | |
| 530 & 531 | The Record Boys, Radio Winners | © June 28, 1927 | Frank Kamplain, Samuel Step & Al Bernard | |
| 532 | The Loomis Twins, Darlings of Songland | © June 29, 1927 | Maxine & Virginia Loomis | - |
| 534 | A Few Moments with George Jessel | © June 29, 1927 | George Jessel & Alex Sater | - |
| 535 | An Office Scene | © June 29, 1927 | George Jessel, Muriel Gray, Gladys Keck and Charles Canfield | - |
| 536 & 537 | Billy Jones & Ernie Hare, the Happiness Boys | June 29, 1927 | The Happiness Boys | two same titled film shorts; #537 available on Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 539 & 540 | The Sunshine Boys "Triple Alliance of Song, Music and Fun" | © June 9, 1927 | Dave Ringle, Eddie Roth & Billy Sharkey | |
| 542 | Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini | © May 19, 1927 | Rosa Raisa & Giacomo Rimini | - |
| Banjo Buddy | June 1927 | Harold Sandelman | - | |
| Wanda Goll | June 1927 | Wanda Goll | - | |
| 543 | Pals | © July 18, 1927 | Willie and Eugene Howard | - |
| 544 | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 ; © November 3, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats | Features "My Regular Gal"; "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover"; "You'll Never Be Missed a Hundred Years from Now" |
| 545 | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 ; © November 3, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats | Features "A Little Music in the Moonlight"; "I Gotta Get Myself Somebody to Love"; " Heart of My Heart" |
| 546 | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 ; © July 11, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats | Features "Hello! Swanee - Hello!"; "Don't Sing Aloha When I Go"; "I Never See Maggie Alone"; "Me Too" |
| 547 | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 ; © July 11, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats | Features "Looking at the World thru Rose Colored Glasses"; "Bells of Hawaii"; "Voom Voom"; "The Glow-Worm"; "Sing, Katie" |
| 548 | Blossom Seeley & Benny Fields | © July 11, 1927 | Blossom Seeley, Benny Fields, the Music Boxes, Chas Bourne & Phil Ellis on piano | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 549 | Six Original Brown Brothers, Saxaphonic Jazz Masters and Orchestra | April 1927 | Original Brown Brothers | - |
| 552 | Call of the Nile | © July 11, 1927 | Charles Hackett | - |
| 553 | The Piano Duetists | © July 11, 1927 | Victor Arden & Phil Ohman | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 556-558 | Cantor Josef Rosenblatt | May 1927 | Yossele Rosenblatt | - |
| 557 | Senator Edward H. Ford | © July 11, 1927 | Edward H. Ford | - |
| 560 | Irving and Jack Kaufman, Harmony Songsters | May 1927 | Irving Kaufman, Jack Kaufman | - |
| 562 | Venita Gould, Famous Star Impersonator | © July 18, 1927 | Venita Gould | - |
| 563 | Eddie Conrad, Broadway's Favorite Comedian "So Far So Good" | © July 18, 1927 | Eddie Conrad, ballet with Marion Eddy & Charlotte Conrad | - |
| 565 | The Diplomats, High Hat Syncopators of Jazz | © July 18, 1927 | Teddy King, Hal Salies, Johnny Ferrara, Andy Hamilton, Harry Nadell, Walter Read & George Coon | - |
| 566 | Aunt Jemima "The Original Fun Flour Maker" | © July 18, 1927 | Tess Gardella with pianist Art Sorenson | - |
| 568 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | © July 18, 1927 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | - |
| 570 | Mike and Meyer | © July 18, 1927 | Joe Weber & Lew Fields | - |
| 571 | Arnaut Brothers the Famous Loving Birds | © July 18, 1927 | John & Rene Arnaut | - |
| 572 | In a Casting Office | © July 18, 1927 | Willie and Eugene Howard with Sonia Jackson | - |
| 573 | Frances Williams, Broadway's Queen of Jazz | © July 18, 1927 | Frances Williams with Leo Feiner & the Vitaphone Symphony | - |
| 574 | Biff and Bang Fisticuffs Funsters "Winner By A Nose" | © July 18, 1927 | Ivan Falkenstein, Milton Weiss & Eddie Lewis | - |
| 608 | Frank Moulan, Comedian and Comic Song Writer | © August 8, 1927 | Frank Moulan | - |
| 609 | The Four Buddies, Harmony Songsters | © August 22, 1927 | Leonard Saxon, Philip Duey, James Waites and Henry Shope | - |
| 610 | The Gale Brothers, Juvenile Comedians | © August 8, 1927 | Abraham & Isadore Gale | - |
| 611 | Adele Le Narr, the Wonder Kid of Vaudeville | June 1927 | Adele Le Narr | - |
| 612 | The Merl Twins, Syncopating Songsters | © August 8, 1927 | Belle & Cecille Merl | - |
| 613 | Knight MacGregor | © August 8, 1927 | Knight MacGregor with pianist Edna Wallace | - |
| 614 | Horace Britt | © August 22, 1927 | Horace Britt with pianist Ruth M. Connist | - |
| 616 | Roselle and Mack, Song and Dance Thrillers | June 1927 | Mildred Rosenburg & Max Epstein | - |
| 617 | Bob MacGregor, Radio's Scotch Comedian | © August 22, 1927 | Bob MacGregor with Elspeth Brownwell at piano | - |
| 619 | Harry Montgomery the Humorologist | © August 22, 1927 | Harry Montgomery | - |
| 623 | Miller and Farrell, Society's Favorite Entertainers | June 1927 | James Miller & Charles Farell | - |
| 625 | The Freeman Sisters, Sunshine Spreaders from Roxy's Gang | © August 22, 1927 | Mildred & Marjorie Freeman | - |
| Bert Fiske | Bert Fiske | - | ||
| Radio Station | Harry Downing | - | ||
| 2101 | Those Pullman Brothers, the Kings of Harmony | © August 8, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Pullman Brothers | - |
| 2102 | A Night at Coffee Dan's | © August 15, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; William Demarest, Hutchings & Holloway, Nita Martan & Miss Gogo | - |
| 2103 | Banjomania | © August 22, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Eddie Peabody | - |
| 2104 | Visions of Spain | © August 22, 1927 | Lina Basquette, Sam Ash & Arthur Kay conducting the Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 2105 | Hot Songs and Hot Fingers | © August 8, 1927 | The Trigg Brothers with John Maxwell & the Vitaphone Orchestra | - |
| 2106 | Allan Prior, Famous Australian Tenor and Star of "The Student Prince" | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Allan Prior | - |
| 2107 | The College Boy and California Medley Girls | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; George Givot, Pearl Leonard & Nina Hinds | - |
| 2108 | The Accordion Man and Girl Imitator | June 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Dorothy Murray & Earl La Vere with De Sues, Furney & Johnson | - |
| 2109 | Carolynne Snowden & Co. - Colored Syncopation | © August 4, 1927 | Carolynne Snowden, Henry "Tin Can" Allen, Harvey Oliver Brooks & Thomas Valentine | - |
| 2110 | Cockatoos at Their Best | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Fritz Landes | - |
| 2111 | Sherry Louise Marshall and the Three Bad Boys | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Sherry Louise Marshall, Cliff Sherry, Gene Warren & Bud Foster | - |
| 2112 | Hazel Green and Company | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Hazel Green | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2113 | Russ Wildey and Billy Sheehan "Famous Radio and Vaudeville Artists" | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Accompanied by Arthur Kay & the Vitaphone Orchestra. | - |
| 2114 | Carnival Night in Paris | © December 4, 1927 | Henry Halstead Orchestra with Betty Patrick | - |
| 2115 | Doris Duncan, Herring and Zeb | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Doris Duncan | - |
| 2116 | Cliff Nazarro "Versatile Young Artist" and the Two Marjories | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Cliff Nazarro | - |
| 2117 | In a Blacksmith's Shop | © November 8, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; J. Delon Jewkes & the Blacksmiths | - |
| 2118 | Auriole Craven the Dancing Violinist | © September 13, 1927 | Auriole Craven | - |
| 2119 | O'Neil and Vermont, the Two Dark Knights | © December 27, 1927 | O'Neil & Vermont | - |
| 2120 | The Cruse Brothers "Missouri Sheiks" with "Old Time Melodies in an Old Time Way" | © November 3, 1927 | The Cruse Brothers | - |
| 2121 | The Beauty of Old Time Music | © November 8, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; the Three Colonial Girls | - |
| 2122 | Joseph Diskay, the Hungarian Tenor | © November 3, 1927 | Joseph Diskay | - |
| 2123 | Reb Spikes and His Follies Entertainers | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Reb Spikes | - |
| 2124 | The Cruse Brothers, the Arkansaw Trio | © September 13, 1927 | The Cruse Brothers | - |
| 2125 | Don Cummings the Drawing Room Roper | © October 18, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Don Cummings | - |
| 2126 | Joe Wong the Chinese Jazz Boy | © October 17, 1927 | Joe Wong | - |
| 2127 | High Up and Low Down | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Harry & Dan Downing | - |
| 2128 | Jane Pursell, Hollywood's Radio Girl | © October 17, 1927 | Jane Pursell | - |
| 2129 | The Boob and His Harmonica | © October 17, 1927 | Britt Wood | - |
| 2130 | Amateur Night | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; William Demarest | - |
| 2131 | Personalities | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Florrie Le Vere & Lou Handman | - |
| 2132 | The Hoot Gibson Trio "The Hawaiian Serenaders" | © November 3, 1927 | The Hoot Gibson Trio | - |
| 2133 | The Lash | © November 3, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Hal Crane, William B. Davidson, Richard Tucker & others | - |
| 2134 | Under the Sea | © May 11, 1927 | Gus Reed and his Frolickers | - |
| 2135 | The Talking Violin and the Blues Singer | August 1927 | Wade Watts & Bobby Gilbert | - |
| 2136 | Gus Arnheim & His Ambassadors | © January 30, 1928 | Gus Arnheim | - |
| 2137 | Tuning In | © November 3, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Murray Roth | - |
| 2138 | Night Court | © November 28, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Murray Roth ; William Demarest | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2139 | The Serpentine | © December 29, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Elmira Lane & the Vitaphone Girls | - |
| 2140 | Lillian Crowell and Ty Parvis, Vaudeville's Talented Children | © November 3, 1927 | Lillian Crowell & Ty Parvis | - |
| 2141 | Realization | © November 3, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Hugh Herbert, Anita Pam & Lee Kinney | - |
| 2142 | The Friars in a Monastery Cellar | © November 3, 1927 | The Monastery Quartet | - |
| 2143 | When the Wife's Away | © November 28, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Mabel Normandie & William Demarest | - |
| 2144 | The Land of Harmony | © November 28, 1927 | Bartram & Saxton | - |
| 2145 | The Sweet Long Ago | © November 28, 1927 | Alice Wellman & Paul Russell | - |
| 2146 | Two Doves in Dark Days | © November 28, 1927 | Walter Weams & Ed Garr | - |
| 2147 | The Hostess | © November 28, 1927 | Sally Fields | - |
| 2148 | Solly Ward the "Foremost German Comedian" at the Party | © November 28, 1927 | Bryan Foy, Solly Ward | - |
| 2149 | The Hunt: Hunting Songs | © December 29, 1927 | Frolicker's Quartet & Vernon Rickard | - |
| 2149 | French Leave "War Days In the Trenches" | © November 23, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Mildred Bailey & the Frolickers Quartette | - |
| 2150 | Jane and Katherine Lee | © December 4, 1927 | Jane & Katherine Lee | - |
| 2159 | Buddy Cooper and Sammy Stept, Song Hit Writers | © December 8, 1927 | Buddy Cooper & Sammy Stept | - |
| 2160 | Frank and Teddy Sabini, Popular Italian Comedians | © December 4, 1927 | Frank & Teddy Sabini | - |
| 2169 | Non-Support | © December 4, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Burr McIntish with Paul Kruger, Bonie Jean DeBard, Linda Ann Corlin & Harry Foy | - |
| 2170 | Phedre Overture | © December 29, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra | - |
| 2178 | Two Doves Flying High | © December 4, 1927 | Walter Weams & Ed Garr | - |
| 2179 | Stranded | December 8, 1927 | Richard Carle | - |
| 2180 | Hurley, Putnam and Snell, Popular Song Trio | © December 8, 1927 | Hurley, Putnam & Snell | - |
| 2188 | The Tout | © December 8, 1927 | Frank Gaby | - |
| 2189 | Arthur Pat West and His Middies "Syncopated Blues Players" | © December 8, 1927 | Arthur Pat West | - |
| 2190 | Leon Navara in a Pianologue | © December 8, 1927 | Leon Navara | - |
| 2199 | A Lesson in Golf | © December 8, 1927 | Alex J. Morrison & Walter Weams | - |
| 2233 | A Man of Peace | © April 21, 1928 | Hobart Bosworth with Charles Middleton & Ann McCay | - |
| 2234 | The Death Ship | © June 2, 1928 | Jose Jackson ; Mitchell Lewis, Jason Robards, Sr. & Elizabeth Page | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 DVD |
| 2239 | Sunny California | © May 1, 1928 | May McAvoy with Neely Edwards, Richard Carle & Arthur Collins | - |
| 2240 | Solomon's Children | © December 27, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Hugh Herbert | - |
| 2242 | Dream Café | © December 27, 1927 | Jimmy Clemons | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 DVD |
| 2243 | Jolly Fanny Rice In "Types" | © December 27, 1927 | Fanny Rice | - |
| 2244 | Putting It On | © December 27, 1927 | Bryan Foy ; Claudia Coleman | - |
| 2245 | Lynn Cowan Master of Ceremonies and Song Writer - Original Songs | © December 27, 1927 | Lynn Cowan | - |
| 2246 | The Eternal Barrier | © December 29, 1927 | Sarah Padden | - |
| 2247 | All In Fun | © December 29, 1927 | Charles Smith, John Hyams & Leila McIntire | - |
| 2249 | Campus Capers | © February 4, 1928 | The Collegiate Four | - |
| 2250 | A Spanish Serenade | © February 4, 1928 | The La Valles | - |
| 2251 | The Worrier | © February 4, 1928 | Richard Carle | - |
| 2252 | The Author | © February 4, 1928 | Bryan Foy ; Walter Weems & Leo Sulkey | - |
| 2253 | Songs and Dances | © January 21, 1928 | Dodie Coyle & Bobby Weir | - |
| 2254 | A Neapolitan Romance | © February 4, 1928 | Pasquale Amato & Lillian Miles | - |
| 2255 | Men Among Men | © January 21, 1928 | Bryan Foy ; Fred Ardath | - |
| 2256 | Clair Omar Musser, the World's Foremost Marimbaphonist | © January 21, 1928 | Clair Omar Musser | - |
| 2257 | Two Doves Scared Stiff | © February 4, 1928 | Walter Weems & Ed Garr | - |
| 2258 | Lynn Cowan, Vitaphone Community Singer | © December 27, 1927 | Lynn Cowan | - |
| 2259 | The Lemon | © February 4, 1928 | Hugh Herbert | - |
| 2260 | Master Gilbert, Sensational Child Artist | © January 21, 1928 | Master Gilbert | - |
| 2261 | Harry Wayman & His Debutantes | © February 4, 1928 | Harry Wayman | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 2262 | A Garden of Songs | © January 21, 1928 | The Harrington Sisters | - |
| 2263 | His Night Out | © February 17, 1928 | Bryan Foy ; John Miljan | - |
| 2264 | Playing Pranks With Webster | © February 4, 1928 | Johnny Hyman | - |
| 2266 | Gene Morgan, the West's Comedian and His Orchestra | © February 17, 1928 | Gene Morgan | - |
| 2267 | Rin Tin Tin and His Owner, Mr. Lee Duncan | February 4, 1928 | Rin Tin Tin | - |
| 2268 | Souvenirs | © February 17, 1928 | Sarah Padden, Allen Stansell & Molly Fisher | - |
| 2269 | Haleyisms | © February 17, 1928 | Jack Haley & Flo McFadden | - |
| 2270 | Frank Richardson, the Joy Boy of Song | © February 17, 1928 | Frank Richardson | - |
| 2271 | Bartch-A-Kalloop | © February 10, 1928 | Steve Freda & Johnny Palace | - |
| 2272 | Coscia and Verdi, Music Glorified, Classified and Mortified | © March 15, 1928 | Phil Coscia & Al Verdi | - |
| 2273 | The Book Worm | January 4, 1928 | Bryan Foy ; Harry Conley, Ethel De Voe & Duncan Harris | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 DVD |
| 2274 | Abe Lyman Orchestra "Syncopated Symphony" | © February 18, 1928 | Abe Lyman Band with Jimmy Ray | - |
| 2275 | On the Air: An All Star Playlet | © February 18, 1928 | John Maxwell, Hugh Herbert, Fanny Rice & Harry Downing | - |
| 2276 | Proff Moore and His Hotel Orchestra "California’s King of Harmony" | © February 15, 1929 | Proff Moore & His Roosevelt Hotel Orchestra | - |
| 2277 | A Few Minutes in the Mines | © March 3, 1928 | Flynn O'Malley, Vernon Rickard & the Black Diamond Four Quartette | - |
| 2278 | Character Studies | January 4, 1928 | Montague Love | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 DVD |
| 2279 | The Beast | © February 18, 1928 | Irene Rich with John Miljan & Barry Townly | - |
| 2280 | The Imperial Russian Cossacks | © March 3, 1928 | - | |
| 2281 & 2282 | The Florentine Choir "Italy's Greatest Ensemble" | © February 18, 1928 | The Florentine Choir | |
| 2283 | The Fashion Plates of Harmony | © March 3, 1928 | Messrs. Reese, R.L. Williams & Maginetti | - |
| 2284 | Lucky in Love | © March 15, 1928 | Bryan Foy ; Clyde Cook, Hugh Herbert | - |
| 2285 | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD |
| 2286 | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | - |
| 2290 | Papa's Vacation | © March 31, 1928 | Bryan Foy ; William Demarest | - |
| 2291 | Vincent Rose and Jackie Taylor and Their Hollywood Montmartre Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Vincent Rose & Jackie Taylor | - |
| 2292 | Vincent Rose and Jackie Taylor with the Hollywood Montmartre Orchestra | September 30, 1928 | Vincent Rose & Jackie Taylor | - |
| 2300 | Juvenile Musicians | © March 31, 1928 | Charles D. McCoy's Newsboys Harmonica Band | - |
| 2309 | Nat Carr, Character Comedian | © December 8, 1927 | Nat Carr | - |
| 2310 | The Herman Music Box | © March 31, 1928 | Jack Lipton & Lola Terrell | - |
| 2318 | East Side West Side | © December 29, 1927 | Joe Weston & Collette Lyons | - |
| 2319 | Ten Minutes | © March 3, 1928 | Robert T. Haines with Guy d'Ennery | - |
| 2320 | The Police Quartette | December 29, 1927 | Los Angeles Police singing group | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2328 | In the Park | © February 18, 1928 | Brown & Whitaker | - |
| 2329 | Frank Richardson, the Joy Boy of Song #2 | © February 18, 1928 | Frank Richardson | - |
| 2338 | Abe Lyman and His Orchestra | © February 18, 1928 | Abe Lyman and His Orchestra | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 DVD; aka "Maestro of Syncopated Symphony" |
| 2347 | Jimmy Lyons, the General of Hilarity | © April 21, 1928 | Jimmy Lyons | - |
| 2369 | The Foreigner | © April 30, 1928 | Leo Carrillo | - |
| 2379 | Charles Hackett, Leading Tenor of the Chicago Opera Company - Schubert's "Who Is Sylvia" | © July 1, 1928 | Charles Hackett | - |