WEBVTT NEWS 8'S SUSAN SHAPIROVISITED A COMPANY INPHILADELPHIA THAT IS MAKING ITHAPPEN.REPORTER THE SOUND OF LONG AGOSTASHED IN BASEMENTS AND STORAGEAREAS.THOSE 78 RECORDS POPULAR FROMTHE LATE 1800'S ...
Oct. 13—Richard Hinds settles the tonearm gently into the grooves of the 78 record, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers rises from the rotating disc and buzzes the room. " ...
Music has become more digitized than ever, yet two documentary filmmakers seek to recapture the wonder of field recordings on good ol’ acetate. Using a single microphone and a 1930s direct-to-disc ...
With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...
Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...
In the early ‘70s, a group of friends started importing the blues and jazz records they wanted to listen to but couldn’t find. Their cottage industry quickly blossomed into 78 Records, which – through ...
Made of ground stone mixed with carbon black and the secretion of the South Asian lac beetle, 78 RPM discs were the dominant sound-recording medium for a half-century. Nowadays, we often think of them ...
With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...