Busy Bee (Label)

Busy Bee (Label) Cylinders and discs made by Columbia for the O’Neill-James Co. of Chicago, from ca. 1904 to ca. 1909. The discs were notable for their extra hole at the edge of the label, notched to fit a nub on the turntable sold by the same company. (This special turntable was not required to play the discs, but only the Busy Bee discs could be played on the special turntable.) Busy Bee cylinders had a large bore diameter; the oversized mandrel on the Busy Bee phonographs would not accept…