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    Hector commented on the post, Cyril Ramon Newton – The Voice of the 1920's (Part 2) 1 year, 8 months ago

    ERRATUM – a typo – ‘Mrs Hardy’ was married to Harold John Hardy (I inadvertently reversed the given names in the above). Hardy was prominent in tunny fishing out of Scarborough; and was admonished by the judge (see above) to do less of that and spend more time with his wife!

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    Hector commented on the post, Alan Dower Blumlein – The Inventor of Stereo 1 year, 9 months ago

    The tale is told that a meeting of the leading record companies was held in the USA in the 1950s. The Americans had independently developed a stereo technology with the two channels on the two groove walls, each cut at 45-degrees to the vertical and phased so the lateral motion summed as mono, and anticipated imposing a lucrative licencing system…[Read more]

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    Hector commented on the post, Cyril Ramon Newton – The Voice of the 1920's (Part 2) 1 year, 9 months ago

    Cyril Newton had three sons, not one. This information is in my 2015 biography of Newton printed in Memory Lane magazine (issue 189, Winter 2015, page 43). The primary sources are public official genealogical records and the Manifest of Alien Passengers on the SS American Merchant which departed London on 27 October 1933 and arrived New York on…[Read more]

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    Hector commented on the post, Cyril Ramon Newton – The Voice of the 1920's (Part 1) 1 year, 9 months ago

    The ‘World of Motion’ movie-theatre was in Fort Edward in upstate New York, not far from Glen Falls where Newton performed at the Bijou movie-theatre. It was not in Fort Edward Nova Scotia. This information is in my 2015 biography of Newton printed in Memory Lane magazine (issue 189, Winter 2015, page 39) and the source is a newspaper report in…[Read more]

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March 1, 2019 Comments Off on Featured Gallery – Fonotipia Posters

Fonotipia Records, or Dischi Fonotipia, was an Italian gramophone record label established in 1904 with a charter to record the art of leading opera singers and some other celebrity musicians, chiefly violinists. Fonotipia continued to […]

Why Nerdy White Guys Who Love the Blues Are Obsessed With a Wisconsin Chair Factory

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March 1, 2019 Comments Off on Why Nerdy White Guys Who Love the Blues Are Obsessed With a Wisconsin Chair Factory

Written by Lisa Hix [Article used with permission] This article originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of our magazine – The Discographer Magazine (pp.86-107) In the 2001 movie “Ghost World,” 18-year-old Enid picks up […]

The 78rpm Project Movie

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The 78rpm Community (and) Discographer Magazine recently had a conversation with Director/ Producer Alex Steyermark and Producer/Recordist Lavinia Jones Wright on their latest film project – The 78 Project. Tell us what your new film […]

A Whisper That Roars

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Written by Wayne Shevlin Used with permission of the EMI Archive Trust I’d like to celebrate the microphone and the revolutionary impact it has had on music. As technology, the microphone is a marvel: converting […]

Reginald Foresythe – Discography

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Researched and Prepared by Terry Brown For a biography on Reginald Foresythe, please see article here (part 1) and here (part 2) [Key: ⦿ 78rpm Electric] PAUL HOWARD’S Quality Serenaders: Paul Howard (ts), George Orendorff […]

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