[78-L] Oldest living person to have made a 78?

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I assume that it was only in retrospect that it became iconic. There had been many southern field sessions by 1927, so it wasn't a big deal at the time. Stoneman and some of the other participants had aleady made plenty of records. Atlanta might have a better claim as the "Birthplace of County Music" in terms of timing and volume of recordings. 

Gregg


---- Rodger Holtin iPod <rjh334578 at gmail.com.invalid> wrote: 
> 
> That has been my thought, too.
> 
> I am really impressed withthe writer.  No references to "vinyl" or  
> "RCA" but did use "Orthophonic"!
> 
> I have that record and often wondered about who all participated.  
> There are a lot of churches in this part of the world - the American  
> south - (I am in west Tennessee) that still sing just exactly like that.
> 
> And now my question
> The story references Johnny Cash's acknowledgement of the Bristol  
> sessions.  I know it got some publicity when it was current news but I  
> have to wonder at what point was it known by scholars?  When was this  
> known by the music fraternity?  Cash, of course, married into the  
> family but was he or anybody else really aware of its significance  
> prior to the Country Music Hall of Fame that really brought it to the  
> fore?  Surely they wee just old records for a long time.
> 
> Sent from my iPod - which explainz any bad typjng
> 
> 
> On Jan 2, 2015, at 7:06 AM, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I always thought there might turn up an acoustic recording with
> > childrens' voices, and some of the participants still alive. This was
> > pretty close.
> > Kristjan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2015-01-02 06:37, David Lennick wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.tricities.com/article_0d690b26-3385-11e4-8cbe-001a4bcf6878.html
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