[78-L] The Talking Machine

[Royal Pemberton]

That Department of the Inferior production reminds me of something I
heard on a radio station a few months back that tried to give a
synopsis of the story of Eldridge Johnson.  I think it was called
'That's how it was' or such like.  I can't remember anywhere near all
the details of what they got wrong (I lost count!) but I'll never
forget the guy pronouncing a name to sound like 'Emily Berleaner'!

On 1/16/09, bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am so glad to see our tax dollars are being wasted to produce a grossly
> inaccurate history of the progress of recorded sound technology. I am sure
> they payed a pretty penny to some no nothing bureaucratic pinhead to
> research and produce this nonsense.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lewis" <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
> To: "78 78" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:11:58 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [78-L] The Talking Machine
>
>
> Just saw, on Discovery, a short film produced by the Dept. of the Interior
> about the history of recording from the perspective of 1977, the centennial
> of recording playback.
>
> About 98.8 percent of it was wrong - millions of people were listening to
> phonographs before 1880, in 1892, the flat disc record was introduced to
> replace cylinders, jukeboxes in the 1940s are recognized as a major
> technological development, as is high fidelity which was coined because they
> were able to make records "sound so good."
>
> I'm glad Dr. B wasn't sitting next to me when I watched it; I doubt I could
> have heard it over his screaming, and believe me, the screaming would have
> been justified. However, it did make me marvel how long we've come since
> 1977 - the whole RIAA sponsored "centenary of recording" seems now like a
> disinformation campaign, and I really believe we are taking strides, not
> steps, in making things right. Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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