Yes -- an exhibition by Gaston and Marsh in Detroit on September 20, 1888,
featured "a recitation by Sol Smith Russell on the Graphophone, which we
secured some weeks ago," but it was reported as a failure -- they thought
heat had spoiled the cylinder, which would have been the persnickety
Bell-Tainter ozocerite kind (letter to Edison, Sept. 21, 1888, TAEM
124:211).  For what it's worth, Russell had also displayed what seems to
have been a "fake" phonograph in San Francisco in May 1878, likely in
conjunction with a ventriloquist named Curtis (San Francisco Chronicle, May
4, 1878, quoted in John A. Emerson, "The Arrival of Edison's Tinfoil
Phonograph in San Francisco," Inter-American Music Review 11 (Spring-Summer
1991)).  I'm not aware of any documentation of him appearing on a Berliner
disc, though.

 - Patrick

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:50 AM O'Dell, Cary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Has anyone ever come across any record of any recordings ever done by
> vaudevillian Sol Smith Russell, possibly for Berliner?
>
> Thx.
>
> Cary O'Dell
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