17 hours ago by maeve

Ted Staunton tiene una WEB increíble y bien surtida de etiquetas de vinilos de 78 RPM. Es un museo online (tanto que aparece citado en Collectibles-Museum), en donde puedes observar los diseños y la evolución de éstos a través del tiempo, concretamente de 1900 a 1960. Cada disco tiene una breve expl ...

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3 days ago by recentkickass78s

Laura C. Boulton (1899-1980) was a famous and eager ethnomusicologist from Conneaut, Ohio. She made many trips to remote, strange and otherwise misunderstood parts of the world to record the music of “pre-civilized” peoples: Nepal and Ethiopia to name a couple. She also made recordings of African mu ...

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8 days ago by Sound Recorder

Jacob Ganz hit many right notes on his NPR blog last week. It got me thinking about how quickly things change. Edison’s wax cylinders stored two to four minutes of music; that meant getting up and changing them over and over in order to enjoy one of the symphonies or operas that were the standard un ...

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9 days ago by recentkickass78s

Alexandre Brailowsky was born in 1896 in the city of Kiev. He was a prodigious child musician, first studying piano with his father and then at the Kiev Conservatory. Other teachers included Leschetizky (Vienna 1911 to about 1914) and Ferruccio Busoni (Zurich); Brailowsky completed master studies in ...

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12 days ago by CapS

Hier soir n’était pas un soir comme les autres pour les Trans Musicales. En effet il marquait le retour du festival dans le lieu qui l’a accueilli pendant des années: le Liberté. Le Liberté C’est un retour au Liberté réussi pour les Trans Musicales, effectivement la soirée affichait complet. Un publ ...

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12 days ago by recentkickass78s

Bob, Joe and Merle were the Shelton Brothers. As country musicians, they were popular enough in the 1930’s through the 1960’s to “cut” over 150 sides, and a good number of those were a steady poppin’ just like this right here. Look these dudes up//From the Decca label, 1939. Personal note: this song ...

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13 days ago by recentkickass78s

There has been a long standing dispute as to the origins of the song “Key to the Highway.” It has been played and recorded by many, in many contexts: blues, folk, a capella, instrumental etc. Big Bill Broonzy, a true Chicago blues heavyweight, recorded it in the 50’s and made it famous; some say (an ...

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20 days ago by 78list

Following on from my other posts regarding what 78s were made of from the US perspective, one interesting member of the 78L list provided a UK perspective: From a UK perspective…. We didn’t get the vinyl/metrolite and other so called ‘unbreakable’ 78s that were issued in the USA and elsewhere until ...

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22 days ago by CapS

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26 days ago by 78list

Interested in starting up a thread on where 78s can still be bought. My contribution: The Diskery, 99-102 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham B5 6QB Tel: 0121-622-2219

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