Recording Technology History links

• 78-l list and and Forum and Archive by Alex Maddocks
• 8-Track Heaven
• Deutsche Grammophon history in about us section
• Aaron Copland Collection from the Library of Congress American Memory
• Ad*Access database from Duke University with 7,000 images 1911-55 including radio and TV
• Alchemy Pro Audio Web Directory
• Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers 1862-1939 at the Library of Congress
• America's Jazz Heritage from the Smithsonian Institution and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
• American Roots Music website for PBS 4-part film of 2001
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 includes sound recordings selected from vintage Edison phonograph Diamond Discs released from 1913-1927
• American West: As Portrayed in Modern Media and Music from the WWW Virtual Library
• Antique Radio Page from Don Adamson
• Antique Record Machines articles from Tim Gracyk
• Audio Annals portal for the History of Audio Technology from Emory Straus includes links to U. S. Patent Office
• Audio Engineering Society Historical Committee of AES
• Audio Tape Recording Links
• Bell Labs History from AT&T
• Bing Crosby article in Michael Kassel's ezine ready.to.ware
• Bing Crosby Home Page from Steven Lewis
• Bing Crosby pictures from Judy MacDonald
• Birthplace of Country Music Alliance (BCMA) from Tim White
• Boombox Museum and history 1976-1989
• California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties from the Library of Congress American Memory
• Chip Stern's Epicenter of Hip
• Classical Vinyl Artwork from Tom Brannigan
• Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) sponsor of the annual CES
• CVC Productions from Cristian Coban restores old recordings on shellac, vinyl, tape and sells CD restorations
• Dead Media Project from Ian Campbell
• Dead Recording Media from David Morton
• Edison National Historic Site from National Park Service has online collections - see list of photo samples
• Edison Papers web page at Rutgers University
• Edison wax cylinders and links from Glenn Sage
• Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry from American Memory
• Fiddle Tunes Of The Old Frontier, the Henry Reed Collection from American Memory
• Film Sound Design from Sven E Carlsson includes links and articles
• Gramophone Hobby Page from Helmut Weber
• Grammy Awards from the Recording Academy and history
• Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande collected in 1940 by Juan Bautista Rael, from the Library of Congress American Memory
• History of Communication Media Technologies from Katherine Ross at University of Minnesota
• History of Radio Broadcast Recordings by Michael Biel
• In STEREO! The History of Stereo Sound in the Movies from George A. Flaxman
• InfoAge includes the Marconi wireless station at Camp Evans NJ, from Fred Carl
• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies from the Library of Congress American Memory
• Keeton's Antique Musical Connection from Kenneth Keeton
• la Page du Phonographe et du Gramophone
• Lansing Heritage from Don McRitchie
• Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter from the University of Pennsylvania Library
• Lost and Found Sound: An American Record radio series began Jan. 29, 1999 on National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Louis Armstrong Discography
• Magnetic Recording links
• Motion Picture Sound links
• Muse's Muse Songwriter Resource includes the Bridge On Fire column by Jerry Flattum with articles on "What Is A Broadcast Quality Recording?"
• M.U.S.I.C. from John Chase
• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 from the Library of Congress American Memory
• Omaha Indian Music including 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, from the Library of Congress American Memory
• Online Antique Phonograph Gallery from Rick Salsman
• Phonographen Museum in Switzerland
• Phonophan from Tim Fabrizio
• Radio links
• Radiola Guy from Sonny Clutter
• Record Collectors Guild
• Recorded Sound Reference Center from the Library of Congress includes the SONIC catalog and NBC collection
• Recording FAQ from Erwin Timmerman
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) includes gold/platinum record list since 1958
• Red Hot Jazz Archive
• Resources for Phonograph Collectors from Allen Koenigsberg has an excellent list of books and his Birth of the Recording Industry is adapted from an essay delivered at the Patent Office in 1990
• Rolf Bergendorff Radio Tekniska Museum in Sweden
• Rootster.Com is an edited collection of cultural web sites for words, music, images and ideas
• Sarnoff Library
• Scientific American report of Oct. 2000 on the wireless web
• Sound Recordings and Copyright from Tony Kent
• Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip from the Library of Congress American Memory
• Swinging Through Time: The Greystone Museum and the Story of Detroit Jazzfrom the Internet Public Library
• Tape Restoration Services from Richard L. Hess
• Television links
• time-warp the archive of vintage technology through the decades is an interactive virtual technology history museum with pictures and descriptions of artifacts of consumer technology of the twentieth century, from Laura Greenfield
• Triple Disc Industry Links
• Video Format identification Guide from Sarah Stauderman , Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives
• Vinyl Records Australia & DJ Resources
• Vintage Microphone Collectors from Jim Steele
• Virtual Gramophone web site
• Webster Chicago Corporation (Webcor) History
• Western Electric History
• Wolverine Antique Music Society
• World Payphones
• Yahoo index pages for Communications and Entertainment and Consumer Electronics

Archives & Museums:

• American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Cincinnati OH.
• AT&T Archives in Warren, NJ.
• Belfer Audio Laboratory & Archive Syracuse University in Syracuse NY.
• Boswell Museum of Music in East Springfield NY.
• British Library National Sound Archive in London, UK, from BL
• Canada Recorded Sound and Video Collection from the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, Canada.
• Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR) in San Diego
• Ditton Park Radio Research Station Archive in the Rutherford Laboratory at Chilton in Oxfordshire
• Edison National Historic Site in West Orange NJ.
• Fuerth Broadcast Museum
• IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in Rutgers NJ.
• J. A. Cooley Museum in San Diego CA.
• John J. Ward, Jr. Irish Music Archives in the Irish Fest Center in Wauwatosa WI.
• Library of American Broadcasting founded in 1972 as the Broadcast Pioneers Library, at the University of Maryland since 1994.
• Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center in Washington DC.
• Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri, Kansas City
• Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago
• Museum of Radio and Technology in Huntington, West Virginia
• Museum of Sound Recording in New York City
• Museum of Television and Radio in New York NY and Los Angeles CA.
• National Museum of American History in Washington DC.
• National Sound Archive in London
• Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in Minnesota
• Radio Museum in Rottenburg, Germany.
• Recordist includes AES Historical Committee and Ampex Virtual Museum and Studer List
• Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center, New York NY.
• Screensound Australia The National Collection of Screen & Sound in Canberra AU.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division at the New York Public Library in New York NY.
• Stanford and Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University
• Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University in Palo Alto CA.
• Templeton Music Museum and Archives at Mississippi State University in Starkville MS.
• Yale Historical Sound Recordings Collection at Yale University in New Haven CT.

DVD/CD/VHS:

• Audio Engineering Society special publications include "An Afternoon with Jack Mullin" (VHS) and "A Chronology of American Tape Recording" (VHS)
• Lost & Found Sound, vol. 1, double CD companion to the radio series, "Lost & Found Sound," broadcast 1999-2000 on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. CD available from NPR.
• Southern Journey V. 1: Voices from the American South - Blues, Ballads, Hymns, Reels, Shouts, Chanteys and Work Songs. "A voyage of the road and the mind, pioneering the use of stereo recording in the field, Alan Lomax's Southern Journey is a 13-volume series of original recordings evoking the musical world of the rural South and an era before radio, movies and television. In 1959 and 1960 Alan Lomax returned to the South to rediscover the still-vibrant traditions of our country. " CD available from Rounders Records, ROUN1701
• Tailenders, The. A Documentary by Adele Horne. "Filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India, and the United States,The Tailenders examines a missionary organization's use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces. Joy Ridderhoff founded Gospel Recordings in 1939 in Los Angeles. She remembered how crowds had gathered around gramophones in the Honduran villages where she had worked as a missionary, and decided that rather than compete with this medium, she would use it to preach. The organization that she founded has now produced audio recordings of Bible stories in over 5,000 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. They distribute these recordings along with hand-wind players in regions with limited access to electricity and media." DVD available from http://www.adelehorne.net/
• Unreleased Edison Laterals, CDs available from Diamond Cut Productions catalog

Journals:

• Absolute Sound
• AES Journal from Audio Engineering Society
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
• Audio World
• Electronic Musician
• Journal for Multimedia History
• Mechanical Music Digest
• Mix Magazine
• Studio Sound
• Variety.com

Sound Clips at these web sites:

• Caruso selections from BMG Classics and Stanford
• cylinder recordings from Glenn Sage at tinfoil.com
• Gramophone historical recordings from Helmut Weber
• Meloware Antique Phono Record Archive
• Radio Classics has classic radio shows using Realaudio 2.0
• Victrola IX plays an original Victor record at the Online Antique Phonograph Gallery
• Virtual Gramophone from the National Library of Canada