Monthly Archives: September 2015
September’s Songs
On the sixstr stories calendar of historic days in music, no month has as many dates commemorating individual pieces of music than September. Here’s the list! (Happy listening!) September 4th On this date in 1962, The Beatles – 21-year-old John … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lomax, Ashley & Foster, Black Bottom Stomp, Georgia Turner, James Taylor, Jelly Roll Morton, Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers, Love Me Do, Oh Susanna, Rising Sun Blues, Stephen Foster, T-Bone Walker, The Beatles, They Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)
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Thomas Edison’s First Phonograph
“Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best.” Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) Thomas Edison wrote the date – November 29, 1877 – in the upper right-hand corner of the piece of paper on which he had drawn the sketch of … Continue reading
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Tagged John Kruesi, Menlo Park, Phonograph, Scientific American, Thomas Alva Edison, Tinfoil Phonograph
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