Decca released the recording 14004 on November 18, 1934: Rothermarches Rant, Braes of Auchertyre, Moonlight Clog & Hennessey Hornpipes.
He performed on the John Allan Cameron show with the Cape Breton Symphony, a group of fiddlers that included Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald, Jerry Holland, Joe Cormier, Wilfred Gillis and John Donald Cameron.
The group appeared regularly on CBC television on The John Allan Cameron Show and other programs.
Chisholm was born in Margaree Forks, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1908.
[3] His ancestor, also named Archibald Chisholm, emigrated from Strathglass, Scotland, to Nova Scotia in 1809.