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

Fri Jan 2 11:04:42 PST 2015

In terms of Southern music, Polk Miller and John Pattee were born in 1844, Henry C. Gilliland in 1845, and Uncle Jimmy Thompson in 1848.  All but Uncle Jimmy Thompson were Civil War veterans.

Gregg 

---- Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid> wrote: 
> 
> Earliest born person to record was probably Prussian military Helmuth 
> Karl Bernhrad von Moltke whose voice 78 list members Stefan Puille and 
> Patrick Feaster discovered on a cylinder a few years ago.
> Here's an article about ir; the headlines boast of people born in the 
> 18th century, but Moltke, in fact, was born in 1800.
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/edisons-files-reveal-the-only-known-voice-recording-of-someone-born-in-the-18th-century/252283/
> Kristjan
> 
> 
> 
> On 2015-01-02 18:17, 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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