Editing Autograph Records (section)

==Discs==
Autograph is best known for some of the fine [[jazz]] by artists in Chicago which was recorded on the label. The most famous of all are the duets by [[King Oliver]] and [[Jelly Roll Morton]]. Autograph's bestselling records, however, were the series of [[pipe organ]] solos by [[Jesse Crawford]]. Marsh's electrical process was the first to be able to capture an approximation of the range of the organ, but it lacked bass in the tone mix.<ref name="Arsc37"/><ref>[http://www.theatreorgans.com/southerncross/Radiogram/USAfiles.htm ''Sounds of American Organs'']</ref>

About the time that the Autograph records of Crawford were made, Jesse Crawford accepted an offer to be organist at the [[Paramount Theatre (New York City)|Paramount Theatre in New York City]]. Once there, the [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]] became interested in having Crawford make recordings for them, first by the acoustical process. Later, Victor recorded Crawford by the [[Western Electric]]-licensed process first used by them in 1925.<ref name="Arsc37"/>

Milton Charles succeeded Jesse Crawford as organist at the [[Chicago Theatre]] and also as the organist used by Orlando Marsh. Charles was recorded by Marsh Laboratories at the [[Tivoli Theatre (Chicago)]] with releases on [[Paramount Records]]. The Paramount recordings were technically superior to those made at the Chicago Theatre.<ref name="Arsc37"/>

The last Autograph records seem to have been recorded in [[1926 in music|1926]].

Although no longer releasing sides under his own label, Marsh continued to make recordings in Chicago for other labels (including Paramount, [[Gennett Records|Gennett]], and [[Black Patti Records|Black Patti]]) through the end of the 1920s.