Murry's recording career seems to have begun and ended with Edison - he made his first record with them ("Good Old Steamboat Days" in 1907), and his last ("Honest Hold-up Man" in 1913). Victor recorded him prodigiously as well, but only after he had proven himself with Edison - he stopped recording with them in 1911, but since many of his sides were still listed in the 1917 catalog he must have remained a strong seller for them. He only recorded four 10" sides for Columbia disc, and they must have been taken out of production not long after that - the 1918 catalog for that company makes no mention of Hill. The cylinders sold through the Albany or Oxford company (and through Sears catalog) were marketed by Columbia originally and are listed accordingly. Those cylinders were among the last recorded by that company, and are not commonly found.
Each of these separate catalogs below is ordered chronologically. Catalog numbers seperated with a slash mean that the selection was issued twice. My sources are as follows: Victor catalog of November 1917, Columbia catalog of September 1918, Tyrone Settlemier's "Online Discographical Project", Christian Zwarg's "Truesound Online Discography Project", Kurt Nauck's "Vintage Record Auction", Tim Gracyk's reference book "Cylinder Lists," and the University of Santa Barbara Victor Discography. Without these resources, this project would have been much more difficult.
Some of these recordings are available on tape or CD through the following sites: "Vintage-Recordings.com", "P and L Antiques", "Besmark.com", and "Tinfoil.com". Some others are available as on-line samples; as I search the Web and find pages with Hill samples on them, I will link them here. Those selections with on-line samples available will be active when you drag the mouse over the title.
Lastly, there is a common misconception about the spelling of his first name: "Murray" makes sense to some people, but in the Victor catalog as well as on each of his records his name is spelled "Murry". That is the spelling I am using here.
This web page is a work in progress, and all intelligent input from others is welcome (no flames, please).
| A Bunch of Nonsense | 16446 | 11/09/09 |
| Four Hundred Nursury Rhymes | ++ unissued ++ | 11/09/09 |
| Alphabet Song | 16458 | 11/10/09 |
| Father Was Out | 16436 | 11/10/09 |
| A Talk On Married Life | 16463 | 11/10/09 |
| The Tale Of The Cheese | 35093 | 11/10/09 |
| A Bit of Grand Opera | 16837 / 16954 | 01/30/11 |
| A Bit of Drama | 16846 / 16944 | 01/30/11 |
| How Columbus Discovered America | 16890 | 01/30/11 |
| Adventures in a Department Store | 16861 / 16944 | 01/30/11 |
| Jack Faust | ++ unissued (listed as "destroyed") ++ | 01/31/11 |
| Seated Around an Oil Stove | 35186 | 01/31/11 |
| Kling Wing King and Sing | ++ unissued (listed as "destroyed") ++ | 01/31/11 |
| Through a Hole in the Fence | 16844 / 16954 | 01/31/11 |
| A Talk On Trusts | 16903 | 02/11/11 |
| Burbank The Wizard | 16849 | 02/15/11 |
| The Old Jokes | 16867 | 02/15/11 |
| Four Hundred Nursury Rhymes (second attempt) | ++ unissued (listed as "destroyed") ++ | 02/15/11 |
| In The Good Old Steamboat Days | 9614 | 04/07 |
| Oh Glory | 9940 | 05/08 |
| Don't Go Up In That Big Balloon, Dad | 10375 | 03/14/10 |
| Noah's Ark | 10388 | 03/14/10 |
| Father's Eccentricities | Special B | 07/08 |
| The Stranded Minstrel Man | 4M-16 | 07/08 |
| A Bunch of Nonsense | 4M-41 | 07/08 |
| A Comedy Dream | 4M-66 | 09/08 |
| A String Of Laughs | 4M-101 / 2112 | 12/08 |
| There's a Woman in The Case | 4M-185 | 04/09 |
| Grandma's Mustard Plaster | 4M-291 / 1969 | 07/09 |
| Monolog on Married Life | 4M-370 | 11/09 |
| Back to Arizona | 4M-748 | 04/11 |
| Seated Around an Oil Stove | 4M-1019 / 1909 | 02/12 |
| The Honest Hold-up Man / Billy Beans | 2166 | 10/13 |
| Some Old Jokes | A-995 | 03/03/11 |
| Some Talk And Songs | A-995 | 03/03/11 |
| Father Was Out | A-1011 | 04/11/11 |
| Discourse on Trusts | A-1011 | 04/11/11 |
| Father Was Out | 2M-1491 | 08/11 |
| Oh Glory | 2M-1493 | 08/11 |
| Oh Fiddle | 2M-1501 | 08/11 |
| A Bunch of Nonsense | 4M-3230 | 08/11 |
| Talk on Married Life | 4M-3240 | 08/11 |
| Tale of the Cheese | 4M-3249 | 08/11 |