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

[Cary Ginell]

"Oldest person to make a 78" would be incorrect in this case. It should be "earliest born person"

Cary Ginell


On Jan 2, 2015, at 9:25 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:

> 
> In this case, I meant "still living". She could have recorded on cylinder as 
> well, as with folklorists who recorded the peasants. Songcatchers, don'tcha 
> know. And Bartok and Marius Barbeau.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 1/2/2015 12:17 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> *******
>> 
>> 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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