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

[Erwin Kluwer]

On disc: Joseph Joachim who record in 1903 and qas birn in 1831.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Joachim


on cylinder: opera singer Peter Schram who recorded in 1889 and was born in
1819 recording can be found on youtube...

Erwin

On Friday, January 2, 2015, <gdkimball at cox.net.invalid> wrote:

>
> 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
> > >>>>>
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