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A full list of all Registry-named recordings with descriptions noting their aesthetic, historic or cultural significance. For many recordings, nationally-known scholars have kindly contributed short essays describing further the work's importance, and are available as indicated.
In late 1853 or early 1854, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville captured the first recorded sounds by etching ontoblackened glass plates the movements of a boar's-bristle stylus, vibrating in sympathy with a guitar and a humanvoice. Later, Scott made recordings on paper wrapped around a drum. The resulting "phonautograms" proved crucial tothe development of recorded sound. Scott was interested solely in the visible tracings of sound waves in order tostudy acoustics and did not record with the intention of playing back or listening to his recordings. Nevertheless,in 2008, researchers from the First Sounds group, using contemporary audio technology (developed with the supportof several institutions, including the Library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board) were ableto play back Scott's recordings for the very first time. Selected for the 2010 registry.
Few, if any, sound recordings can lay claim to as many "firsts" as the small, mangled artifact of a failedbusiness venture discovered in 1967 in the desk of an assistant to Thomas Edison. This cylinder recording, only5/8-inches wide, represents the foundjohations of many aspects of recording history. It was created in 1888 by ashort-lived Edison company established to make talking dolls for children, and it is the only surviving example fromthe experimental stage of the Edison dolls production when the cylinders were made of tin. As such, this recordingof "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," as sung by an anonymous Edison employee, is the earliest known commercial soundrecording in existence. It is also the first children's recording and, quite possibly, the first recording to bemade by someone who was paid to perform for a sound recording. Due to its poor condition, the recording wasconsidered unplayable until 2011 when its surface was scanned in three dimensions using digital mapping toolscreated at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and developed in collaboration with the Library of Congress. Selected for the 2011 registry.
Thomas Edison debuted his "perfected" wax-cylinder phonograph in the summer of 1888, rendering obsolete his 1877tinfoil model and preventing a coup against his "favorite invention" by Bell and Tainter's insurgent Graphophone.The first phonograph to leave Edison's factory was sent to his friend and agent, Civil War hero Col. George Gouraud,an American living in London, who had a knack for promoting and marketing new technologies. In the second half of1888, Gouraud marketed the machine by hosting recording demonstrations with celebrity guests and, perhapsaccidentally, preserved for posterity the voices of prominent poets, scientists, musicians and politicians,including future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan. The firstof these recordings was the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace. Hugh DeCoursey Hamilton, who worked for Gouraudand Edison, captured a 4,000-voice chorus performing "Israel in Egypt" from the press balcony 100 yards away.Gouraud also recorded his friends, family and business partners. Selected for the 2016 registry.
A trio of cylinders selected by Edison contemporaries to represent the birth of commercial sound recording--as anindustry, as a practical technology, and as a means to preserve music and spoken word. Selected for the 2002 registry.
Fewkes' cylinder recordings, 30 in total and made in Calais, Maine, are considered to be the first ethnographicrecordings made produced "in the field," as well as the first recordings of Native American music. The cylinders areheld by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Selected for the 2002 registry.
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked inWashington, D.C. A contemporary of Thomas Edison, Berliner believed that the wax cylinder developed by Edison andhis partners was too soft and fragile for making a permanent recording. Hence, he developed the first process formass-production of disc recordings. These are two of his early recordings. Selected for the 2003 registry.
Offering a rare and revealing glimpse into the lives of regular people, the Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordingsconsists of 600 homemade cylinder recordings made primarily during the 1890s, 1900s, and 1910s. The core of thecollection is based on several decades of purposeful acquisition by anthropologist Donald R. Hill and soundhistorian David Giovannoni. From its commercial introduction in the 1890s through its demise in the 1920s, thecylinder phonograph allowed its owners to make sound recordings at home. These UCSB audio "snapshots" of everydaylife are perhaps the most authentic audio documents of the period: songs sung by children, instrumentals, jokes, andad-libbed narratives. The vast majority of vernacular wax recordings remain in private hands or uncatalogued ininstitutions. UCSB's extensive collection serves as a beacon for the recognition and assertive preservation of thesehighly endangered audio treasures. Selected for the 2014 registry.
Benjamin Ives Gilman, Harvard psychologist, and, later, curator for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, made 101 waxcylinder recordings at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. These recordings contain Fijian, Samoan, Uvean, Javanese,Turkish, Kwakiutl or Vancouver Island Indian songs and ceremonies along with recordings of other Middle Eastern,South Seas and Native American musicians and singers who performed in specially constructed "villages" along themidway. In addition to being the first recordings ever made at any World's Fair, these are also the earliest knownrecordings of many non-western musical styles, such as the Javanese Gamelan. Selected for the 2014 registry.
George W. Johnson was the first African American to make commercial records; he began in 1890. Born nearWheatland, Virginia, Johnson made his living as a street singer during the 1870s, busking in New York City. "TheLaughing Song" was Johnson's most famous and long-lived number. This familiar sounding and uncomplicated tune wassung by Johnson in a down-home, gruff baritone and completed with his infectious laughter, all remarkably free ofthe caricature and forced dialect that marked most African American-themed material of the period. "Laughing Song"was tremendously successful, with versions released in the US and Europe. With its ragtime-imbued accompaniment, itsstature is inestimable: here is perhaps the most popular recording of the 1890s, and probably the first "hit" sungby an African American. Selected for the 2013 registry.
The first recording of America's favorite march. "The Stars and Stripes Forever," John Philip Sousa's most famouscomposition, was recorded by the company of the inventor of the 78-rpm gramophone disc, Emile Berliner, for hiscompany Berliner Gramophone. Selected for the 2002 registry.
Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta, "The Fortune Teller," was the composer's first popular success for the stage. TheBerliner Gramophone Company captured bass Eugene Cowles' performance of one of the operetta's hits, "Gypsy LoveSong," on what was one of the very first "original cast recordings." Selected for the 2004 registry.
During the era of ragtime music's greatest popularity -- the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- the syncopatedmusic was typically recorded by bands, orchestras, or small ensembles, or accordion, xylophone, or banjo soloists.Vess Ossman, called "The Banjo King," was the one of the most prolific recording artists of that time. His "HonoluluCake Walk" is a prime example of recorded ragtime banjo. Selected for the 2003 registry.
Scott Joplin is today regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions. Joplin himself performed someof these "rags" for piano roll sales. These rolls represent the way these compositions were originally listened toand enjoyed--on home player pianos. They are outstanding examples of a less-familiar, now nearly-obsolete soundrecording format. This selection consists of the titles "Maple Leaf Rag," "Magnetic Rag," "Weeping Willow Rag,""Something Doing," "Pleasant Moments," and "Ole Miss Rag." Selected for the 2002 registry.
In the early 1900s, Lionel Mapleson set up a phonograph in the New York City Metropolitan Opera House to recordexcerpts of live performances there. These cylinders preserve a special window on the spontaneous artistry of thisera and are the only known extant recordings of some performers, including Jean de Reszke. Selected for the 2002 registry.
This vaudeville and musical theater duo, among America's first African-American recording artists, recorded manysides for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. But as effective as the comic duo were on record, GeorgeWalker disliked recording and made only one other disc. Bert Williams, however, had a very successful recordingcareer, which included two versions of his signature song, "Nobody," before his death in 1922. The Victor discs arequite rare. Two of them, "The Fortune Telling Man " (Victor 1083) and "The Ghost of a Coon" (Victor 998), aremissing from any known collection. Selected for the 2003 registry.
These cylinders originally produced by the Standard Phonograph Company of New York are believed to be the earliestrecordings of Yiddish songs. Eventually released by the Thomas Lambert Company of Chicago, these releases (somemanufactured in unusually vibrant colors) also represent the first releases by an ethnically-owned andethnically-focused record company, a risky venture at a time when a US-based audience for foreign-language music hadyet to be established. These surviving 20 cylinders of 48 once produced, provide an insight not only into theYiddish-speaking community of the era but also into the difficult assimilation of Jewish immigrants arriving toAmerica at the turn of the century. In 2016, the Archeophone label lovingly restored and packed the cylinder into aCD-set. Selected for the 2018 registry.
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