Belfer
Library - Syracuse University Libraries -
Listen to the digital files supplied
by the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University
Libraries, which may be used for scholarly, research, or
educational purposes of a non-commercial nature. Also
see The
Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive for more details
about collection of sound recordings and related items.
The
Thomas A. Edison Papers -
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences - The Thomas A. Edison
Papers
Bless
Them All: The Songs of Fred Godfrey - A nicely created
website by Barry Norris, the grandson of Fred Godfrey
Canadian
Antique Phonograph Society - Interests
range across all aspects of sound recording and its history:
phonographs and gramophones, all types of sound recordings
of historic importance, ephemera and related memorabilia.
There is particular emphasis placed on the history of recorded
sound in Canada.
CHARM
- A Brief History of Early Recording,
Discography, Sound Files, Research Projects, Studies, Analyzing
Recordings
The
City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
(CLPGS) - The oldest such society in the world who also
publish their official journal "For the Record."
Comedy
on Vinyl - Episodes - Comedy
on Vinyl is a podcast created by writer/actor Jason Klamm
in which he discusses influential and important comedy albums
with the week’s guests. It's another reminder that the Stage
of the World, including comedy, had a period in time
when buying and listening to the record was a ticket to
front-row comedy.
Crank
Up the Phonograph - Who We Are and Where
We Came From in Early Sound Recordings by
Eric Byron and Crank
Up the Phonograph website
Discography
of American Historical Recordings (DAHR)
- a database of master recordings made
by American record companies during the 78rpm era. It is
part of the American Discography Project (ADP)—an initiative
of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Packard
Humanities Institute that is edited by a team of researchers
based at the UCSB Library. The ADP is also a partner with
the Library of Congress National Jukebox project and provides
most of the cataloging data used in the Jukebox.
Disquaires
de Paris - Using an interactive
map, this website pays tribute to the record dealers and
venders of phonograph cylinders, who allowed Parisians to
discover recorded sound as early as the end of the 19th
century.
Dust
to Digital - By combining research with images,
audio and videos, Dust-to-Digital creates access to hard-to-find
music by producing high-quality books, box sets, CDs, DVDs
and vinyl records. In 2012, Lance and April Ledbetter (founders
of Dust to Digital) started a non-profit organization Music
Memory to ensure the sounds and recordings of our past
would be preserved.
Edison
muckers - A Blog for Everything Edison, Everyday
Excavated
Shellac - A website dedicated to 78rpm recordings
of folkloric and vernacular music from around the world.
First
Sounds - Making humanity's earliest sound recordings
available to all people for all time.
For
the record: Emil Berliner and the gramophone - A virtual
exhibition by the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.
The
Great 78 Project - 78rpm records, cylinder
recordings, and other recordings from the early 20th century
on Internet Archive
Griffonage-Dot-Com
- Patrick Feaster's Blog - Ongoing explorations in historical
media, documents, inscriptions, et cetera - Be sure to also
check-out Feaster's Published
Elsewhere link
HathiTrust
- A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering
a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries
around the world.
The
Henry Ford Collection of Phonographs
How
the Phonograph Changed Music Forever by Clive
Thompson - January 2016 - Edison’s
invention redefined the entire industry - article courtesy
of Smithsonian
Magazine
i78s.org
- The Library of Historical Audio Recordings from the
David Giovanonni Collection
The
Internet Museum of Flexi / Cardboard / Oddity Records
- Cereal box records, promo, novelty and assorted plastic
and paper records are on view and playable.
Library
of Congress National Jukebox - Historical
Recordings from the Library of Congress
Library
of Historical Audio Recordings at i78s.org
- Historical Recordings from the
collection of David Giovannoni with over 46,000 sound recordings.
Great resource for scholarship and research. User registration
required.
Little
Wonder Records and Bubble Books
- Merle Sprinzen's
website with a "mission to bring together everything
that known about Little Wonder Records and their offshoots,
including Bubble Books...and give them their historical
due"
Mainspring
Press Discography
- The Leader in Forensic Discography Since 1999 -
78 RECORDS, CYLINDER RECORDS & VINTAGE PHONOGRAPHS Information
and Resources for Historic-Sound Enthusiasts - DAHR Discography
of Allan Sutton (Highly Recommended by Friends of the
Phonograph).
Media
History Digital Library - A free online resource,
featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from
the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.
Nipperhead
- Allen Koenigsberg's legacy website
with two of its original galleries of special interest:
Phonograph Ephemera
and a Gallery
of Various Phonographs.
Phonorama
- Julien Anton's excellent site dedicated
to the cylinder phonograph and its inventors.
Phonostalgia
- Research
and articles by Ryan Barna regarding talent, business, and
technology of the acoustic recording era.
ProjectMuse
- Project MUSE Mission Project MUSE promotes the creation
and dissemination of essential humanities and social science
resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers,
and scholars worldwide. ©2023 Project MUSE. Produced by
Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The
Sheridan Libraries.
78
RPM Club - The 78 rpm Club "collects and preserves
everything concerning the fragile sound carriers."
Smithsonian
Folkways Recordings - Shop, enjoy playlists and
listen to excerpts of CD and Vinyl Recordings for sale
Visit Sound
Beat for a
daily, 90 second show highlighting the archive of Recorded
Sound and Music at the Special Collections Research Center
(SCRC) at Syracuse University's Belfer Audio Laboratory
and Archive.
Sound
of the Hound - This blog is dedicated to the story
of how recording came into being and how it conquered the
world.
Stanford
Archive of Recorded Sound - Phonograph Collection
Timeline:
Recording Music - Part 1
by James Stewart, September 26, 2016 - ©Vermont Public
Radio - A brief history of the story of recording.
Tinfoil.com
- "Dedicated to the Preservation of Early Recorded
Sounds" by Glenn Sage
UC
Santa Barbara Library - Cylinder Audio Archive
- The UCSB Library, with funding from
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Grammy
Foundation, and donors, has created a digital collection
of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the UCSB
Library. Recordings are available for streaming.
The
United States Early Radio History - Thomas H. White
- Chapter 3 particularly interesting on early use of telephone
for opera, news, concerts and the reading of stories.
The
Victor-Victrola Page - Website dedicated to phonographs
made by The Victor Talking Machine Company from 1901 through
1929. Nice timelines and information. If you have a Victor
Talking Machine please register
it here.
The
Vincent Voice Library - The G. Robert Vincent Voice
Library is a collection of over 100,000 hours of spoken
word recordings, dating back to 1888. The collection includes
the voices of over 500,000 persons from all walks of life.
