More than 100 years ago, a London family man decided he wanted to record his family’s holiday get-togethers. But rather than pull out an iPhone, he recorded audio on wax cylinders. Amazingly, those cylinders survived and are now in a London museum.
America’s earliest recordings preserved and remastered
Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey are the husband-and-wife team behind Archeophone Records in Chicago. Archeophone has rescued and preserved some of America’s richest recording history.
Music: While CD Sales Droop, Vinyl Abides
Let the holiday shopping season begin! With the explosion of intangible mp3s, music may have lost its luster as a nice Christmas gift. But it looks like music might have a savior in the form of an old friend: good old reliable vinyl.
We hear from Craig Reece, of the Scottish vinyl-record label Starla Records. He says Starla likes to record Scottish artists doing their version of American soul and rock classics.