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

[David Lennick]

Did you ever qas birn? Pretty agonizing.

dl

On 1/2/2015 2:50 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
>
> Poor guy.
>
> dc
>
>> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:31:13 +0100
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> From: ekluwer at gmail.com.invalid
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Oldest living person to have made a 78?
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>