[78-L] just found: voice recording of earliest person born to record (b:1800)

[Rodger Holtin]

Right.  Exactly.  Read the articles.  There's a framed copy of one of them in the computer science building lobby next door to my office.  Great stuff.  
 
Historians have known or suspected these to have existed for decades.  Such were mentioned in Tin Foil to Stereo.  After reading that, in 1967 I was excited to see an album in the Music Lovers Shoppe in Rochester called "Tom Edison's Greatest Hits" which purported to be some of those records.  The liner notes extolled the wonderfind of the "Frederick Kolbe Collection" and since it read so much like a Jim Walsh article, I fell for it and plunked down $3.98 plus tax and took it home.  When I heard Wild Bill Hickock order "a brandy Alexsander, pleasse" I know I had been had, and pulled it off the TT and buried it.  Years later I dug it out again and it has become a real family favorite.  I'm glad I didn't trash it - I almost did!  Some of my kids can quote the William S. Gilbert track.
 
Here's my real point: With all the notices of these things popping up even in the popular press, I have to wonder why that album has not been reissued on CD.  I share different tracks with students once in a while, always to great amusement, and it's an amazement that Harris and Kukoff nailed those personalities so well.  I had to read a lot about Nietzsche to grasp what they distilled into three hilarious minutes.
 
http://www.amazon.com/Edisons-Greatest-Hits-Thomas-Edison/product-reviews/B001AP15EE
 
 
 

Rodger Still Laughing Holtin

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--- On Fri, 2/3/12, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:


From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] just found: voice recording of earliest person born to record (b:1800)
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 10:32 PM




On 2/3/2012 8:33 AM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Could this be the fabled "Frederick Kolb collection"?
> :-)
>
>
> Rodger

Read the article.  Plus, this find has been mentioned here in two other 
threads here "Early European Edison Phonograph Recordings Released" and 
"Patrick Feaster talk on Theo Wangemann at the Edison Lab, Feb. 4".

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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> --- On Fri, 2/3/12, Erwin Kluwer<ekluwer at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> From: Erwin Kluwer<ekluwer at gmail.com>
> Subject: [78-L] just found: voice recording of earliest person born to record (b:1800)
> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 6:17 AM
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/bismarcks-voice-among-restored-edison-recordings.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210
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