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

[Malcolm Rockwell]

The researcher Helen Roberts recorded a female chanter on the island of 
Kauai who was almost 100 years old in 1928. That would make her birthday 
around 1830 and so probably the oldest known person to record. However, 
Roberts used an Edison cylinder recorder, which puts the artist out of 
the running for a disc 78.
Without major diggage locating her name is problematic, but I will do so 
if there's any interest.
Malcolm

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On 1/2/2015 6:57 AM, gdkimball at cox.net.invalid wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>> dl
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