When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

The first of the re-releases was The Chaplin Revue ( 1959 ), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, and How to Make Movies, a film he had made in 1918 to show his new studio and which had never before been released.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

In 1929, Gini founded the Italian Committee for the Study of Population Problems ( Comitato italiano per lo studio dei problemi della popolazione ) which, two years later, organised the first Population Congress in Rome.

Atkins also became manager of RCA Victor's Nashville studio, eventually inspiring and seeing the completion of the legendary RCA Studio B, the first studio built specifically for the purpose of recording on the now-famous Music Row.

* Clone ( Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon album ), the first studio album from Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

McLean recorded his first studio sessions ( with singer Lisa Kindred ) while still in prep school.

In 1883, Munch took part in his first public exhibition and shared a studio with other students.

Enter the Dragon was the first Chinese martial arts film to have been produced by a major Hollywood studio – Warner Bros. and was produced in association with Golden Harvest and Lee's Concord Production Company.

* 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses.

Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.

Hunt's studio within the building housed the first architectural school in the United States.

They quickly made friends with Hollywood insider ( and fellow Ivy Leaguer ) Allan Dwan, but Hawks landed his first important job when he used his family's wealth to loan money to studio head Jack Warner.

In total, thirty artists participated in their first exhibition, held in April 1874 at the studio of the photographer Nadar.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

Spader met his first wife, Victoria Kheel, a decorator, while working in a yoga studio, after he moved to New York in the 1980s.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, sold the first tape recorder in Japan.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

It might appear at first sight as though one connection would serve, but the differences in pressure on which these instruments depend are so minute, that the pressure of the air in the room where the recording part is placed has to be considered.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Bookkeeping involves, first of all, recording the details of all of these source documents into multi-column journals ( also known as a books of first entry or daybooks ).

After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D. C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

MFSB released " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", a 1974 hit recording featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, which became the first disco song to reach number one, after " Love's Theme ", on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it was written as the theme song for Soul Train.

In recording two interceptions and a fumble recovery during the game, Howley was the first defensive player to win the honor.

# Cornerback Larry Brown – Super Bowl XXX – Brown became the first cornerback to be named Super Bowl MVP, recording two interceptions for a total of 77 return yards.

In 1949, Jack Sheedy, the owner of a San Francisco – based record label called Coronet, was talked into making the first recording of Brubeck's octet and later his trio.

The first release of archival material since Decade and Lucky Thirteen would appear in 2006, Live at the Fillmore East, a recording from a 1970 concert featuring Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten.

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

It was while working with Brown that Day scored her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", released in early 1945.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.