Angelophone was a short-lived producer of disc phonographs and a record label founded in 1916 by Charles Taze Russell of the Watchtower, later known as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Russells voice was weak and hard to understand and Watch Tower gives different advices for adjustments on the players during this period.
The disc with the Russell sermons on has dark blue label on the hymn side and embossed sermon-side.
[2] Credited to a firm named "Angelico",[4] the discs were possibly produced by the Paroquette Record Manufacturing Company.
Motors, reproducers, tone arms and other hardware could be ordered form the big producers and furniture, department, piano or music store could put together their own phonograph and sell it under their own name.
[5] The Angelophone phonograms was put together by 13 volunteers Bethelites and was sold for a modest price to members of the Watch Tower Society.
Since there was only one year of production including trouble-solving and handling complaints, there must be a limited quantity of players put together by those 13 workers.
[6][7] Angelophone Records was mentioned as a part of the dispute and splitting of the Watch Tower society in this period.
Angelophone may have been the first disc record label devoted solely to Anglo-American religious music.