During the early 1990s, the Compact Disc surpassed the gramophone record in popularity, but gramophone records continued to be made ( although in very limited quantities ) into the 21st century — particularly for club DJs and for local acts recording on small regional labels.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

An early 1930s portable wind-up gramophone from His Master's Voice.

The coils of watch balance springs and the grooves of very early gramophone records form Archimedean spirals, making the grooves evenly spaced and maximizing the amount of music that could be fitted onto the record ( although this was later changed to allow better sound quality ).

Luckily, the gramophone was invented early enough to capture on disc the voices of the top Italian Verdi and Donizetti baritones of the last two decades of the 19th century, whose operatic performances were characterized by considerable re-creative freedom and a high degree of technical finish.

Five other significant Francophone baritones who recorded, too, during the early days of the gramophone / phonograph were Léon Melchissédec and Jean Noté of the Paris Opera and Gabriel Soulacroix, Henry Albers and Charles Gilibert of the Opéra-Comique.

The inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.

She became among the best known Australians of the period and participated in early gramophone recording and radio broadcasting.

Berliner Gramophone ( also known as E. Berliner's Gramophone ) was an early record label, the first company to produce disc " gramophone records " ( as opposed to the earlier phonograph cylinder records ).

The early issues were vertically cut in the gramophone record grooves, using the hill-and-dale method of a U-shaped groove and sapphire ball stylus, but they switched to the more popular lateral cut method in April 1919.

Sunshine Records was a small California-based record label of the early 1920s, producing 6 double-sided gramophone records of early jazz and blues.

An icon of the company was to become very well known-the picture of a dog listening to an early gramophone painted in England by Francis Barraud.

Most recordings purchased by Canadians in the early days of the gramophone were made by American and British performers, behind some of these international hits were Canadian songwriters.

She was one of the best-known coloratura singers of the early 20th century with her gramophone records selling in large numbers.

03033 ) was recorded twice, in October 1904 and again in February 1905, and this was one of the great early classics of the gramophone, one of those records which ' made ' the instrument a popular success, though the double celebrity single-sided title retailed at one guinea.

An album may be understood as a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution, however the concept is found in printed music dating into the early nineteenth century in works by composers such as Schumann and Mendelssohn.

For example, a worn gramophone record will have a lower fidelity than one in good condition, and a recording made by a low budget record company in the early 20th century is likely to have significantly less audio fidelity than a good modern recording.

The cover artwork does not actually depict a Victrola ( a brand name of early phonograph with the horn inside a wooden cabinet ), but rather an early 20th century outside horn gramophone or phonograph.

Although the ability to reverse the playback of recorded sounds had been known since the early days of gramophone records and can be achieved by simply placing the needle on the record and spinning it counter-clockwise, reverse effects were regarded largely as a curiosity and were little used until the 1950s.

He signed a contract in 1935 with Columbia and made five gramophone records featuring sketches involving headmistresses and schoolgirls-he was an avid reader of books for girls from childhood and had been performing skits from the early thirties for his friends.

One of the earliest 20th century practitioners of this method was The Mills Brothers whose early recordings of the 1930s clearly stated on the label that all instrumentation was done vocally.

Their third and final album, That'll Be the Day, was put together from early recordings and was released in April.

Low-cost production quality was typical for early black metal artists with low budgets, where recordings would often be done in their homes or basements.

The slap style cuts through the sound of a band better than simply plucking the strings, and allowed the bass to be more easily heard on early sound recordings, as the recording equipment of that time did not favor low frequencies.

Many historic bands and early rock music recordings used this configuration, notable users including Ringo Starr in the Beatles, Mitch Mitchell in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Barbata in the Turtles and many others.

Posthumously, two albums of demo recordings from 1974 to 1977 — Hardcore Devo: Volume One ( 1990 ) and Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ( 1991 )— were released on Rykodisc, as well as an album of early live recordings, DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years.

In the early days of hip hop, albums were rare, so most of The Egyptian Lover's successful recordings were 12 " singles.

Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM ( as early as 1937 ) and Twentieth Century Fox ( as early as 1941 ).

He created a large body of pioneering recordings using early tape recorders, studio technologies and the sounds of the manipulated human voice.

Harmonicas were heard on a handful of recordings in the early 1900s, generally labeled as a " Mouth Organ ".

Howlin ' Wolf's early recordings demonstrate great skill, particularly at blowing powerful riffs with the instrument.

That was quite a contrast with the earlier recordings, as he had written and co-written the music for much of the band's early material.

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

From the mid-1890s until the early 1920s both phonograph cylinder and disc recordings and machines to play them on were widely mass-marketed and sold.

* Listen to early recordings on the Edison Phonograph

Numerous early music ensembles specializing in music of the period give concert tours and make recordings, using a wide range of interpretive styles.

In several of his early recordings, Professor Longhair blended Afro-Cuban rhythms with rhythm and blues.

British rhythm and blues developed in the early 1960s, largely as a response to the recordings of American artists, often brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during the Cold War, or merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast.

First in the early 1940s many jazz bands began to include ragtime in their repertoire and put out ragtime recordings on 78 rpm records.

He also played a major part in Cher's early solo career with recordings such as " Bang Bang " and " You Better Sit Down Kids ".

House had been retired from the music business for many years, and was unaware of the 1960s folk blues revival and international enthusiasm regarding his early recordings.

However, without the guiding hand of Rankine, recordings were sporadic and subsequent Associates records failed to reach the charts in the UK and sold far fewer than their early albums.

Competition between people concerning who can lift the heaviest weight has been recorded in diverse and ancient civilizations as early as the earliest known recordings of such human events, including those found in Egypt, China and in ancient Greece.