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    • Daly, Kevin (1942 – 1989) Decca engineer, Producer and Record Company Executive.
    • Derbyshire, Delia 1937 – 2001
    • Gaisberg, Fred (1873 – 1951)
    • Nichols, Roger (1944-2011) Steely Dan’s recording man
    • Rushent, Martin (1948 to 2011)
    • Sir John Read (1918 – April 4 2015) chairman of EMI
    • Sterling, Louis (1879-1958)
    • Wallace, Roy Decca Engineer (1927-2007)
    • Wallich Isabella (1917 – 2001) Niece of Fred Gaisberg
  • Engineers & Producers
  • Fred Gaisberg’s progress
    • Ringo Starr
      • Musicians
  • Record Shops
    • HMV 363 Oxford Street
    • J. Hollier’s Phonograph & Record Supply, Bristol, England 1909
    • Jazz Record Mart, 27 East Illinois, Chicago
    • Now that’s what I call a record shop. Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.
    • Probe Records, The Culture Bunker
    • Spillers Records: the oldest record shop in the world?
  • Recording Studios
    • 1. Recording studio logos
    • Herne Place Studios
    • The Townhouse Studios Cutting Department
    • Abbey Road Studio 3 circa 1973 where Pink Floyd recorded Dark Side of the Moon
    • Bob Dylan (again) at The Power Plant in the 1980’s
    • Bob Dylan in Columbia Records Studio August 1963, making The Times They Are A Changing
    • Elvis Presley. Sun Studios. February 5th 1955
    • Joe Meek working in his studio at 304 Holloway Road, London circa 1961
    • Olympic Studios, London, 2008. U2 are the final artists in Studio 1 before Olympic Studios close.
    • Sometimes a recording is perfect
    • The Rolling Stones in Olympic Studios 1968
    • When the last recording studio goes, what will go with it? From Word Magazine March 2010
    • Trident Studios Control Rooms late 1970’s
  • Podcasts
    • Episode 1: Fred Gaisburg arrives in London
    • Episode 2 – Syria Lamonte, the world’s first female recording star
    • Episode 3 – The first propaganda record
    • Episode 4 – Russian revolutions (part one)
    • Episode 5 – Russian revolutions (part two)
    • Episode 6 – The last castrato
    • Episode 7 – The Caruso breakthrough
    • Episode 8 – James Hall on The Industry of Human Happiness
    • Episode 9 – Interview with Joe Boyd

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Mr Locantro knows his onions, from Berliner’s to HMV!

By Tony Locantro When The Gramophone Company first started to operate in the UK, the discs were 7-inches in diameter and carried the title: ‘E. BERLINER’S GRAMOPHONE’. This was soon replaced by the drawing of a recording Angel, and the Angel remained in use for about ten years. Playing time on the 7-inch discs wasContinue reading “Mr Locantro knows his onions, from Berliner’s to HMV!”

Posted byNipperMarch 29, 2012March 30, 2012Posted in1909, 1910Tags:1905, 1980s, angel logo, emile berliner, hmv, the gramophone company, tony locantroLeave a comment on Mr Locantro knows his onions, from Berliner’s to HMV!

Fred Gaisberg’s first foreign recording trip..London to Leipzig

The Gramophone Company decided to step up their recording programme in 1899 by sending Fred Gaisberg to the continent to record local artists in several countries. He was to take the recently arrived William Sinkler Darby with him as his assistant. It was to be the first of many great adventures that the two wouldContinue reading “Fred Gaisberg’s first foreign recording trip..London to Leipzig”

Posted byNipperJuly 2, 2011July 2, 2011Posted in1899Tags:1899, angel logo, berlin, EMI, fred gaisberg, germany, hanover, leipzig, Leipziger Musiker Vereiningung, the gramophone company, thomas birnbaum, william sinkler darbyLeave a comment on Fred Gaisberg’s first foreign recording trip..London to Leipzig

Every picture tells a story.

This is a scanned page of a Gramophone Company catalogue from 1902. The company had progressed from making 7″ records to 10″ records by late 1901 and this catalogue shows the new range of discs retailing at 5 shillings a piece. There were 20 shillings to a £, so five shillings expressed in modern moneyContinue reading “Every picture tells a story.”

Posted byNipperJune 4, 2011June 4, 2011Posted in1902, gramophones, HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC, PEOPLE, RECORDING EQUIPMENT, recording legendsTags:angel logo, angel records, fred gaisberg, gramophone, john sousa, sousaphone, the columbia phonograph company, the gramophone company, thunderer march1 Comment on Every picture tells a story.

Welcome to The Sound Of The Hound

This dog blog is dedicated to the history of recorded music. We are specifically interested in the fine work of the EMI Group Archive Trust but we want to look wider at how the sound got on the rounds and all the widgets that made the digits.

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  • Interview with Joe Boyd May 20, 2020
    The first series of Sound of the Hound wraps up with something a bit different: an interview with legendary Pink Floyd and Nick Drake producer Joe Boyd. Just like Fred, Joe is an American who moved to London in his twenties to establish an overseas office for a record company. And just like Fred, he became a recording pioneer. Immersing himself in London lif […]
  • James Hall on The Industry of Human Happiness May 13, 2020
    Dave interviews James about his novel on the early days of recorded sound, The Industry of Human Happiness. James tells how he chanced upon the adventures of Fred Gaisberg and Sinkler Darby in the sleeve notes of a CD that he bought outside a concert, and how they inspired him to write a fictional account of those heady days of format wars, skulduggery and b […]
  • The Caruso breakthrough May 6, 2020
    It’s the spring of 1902. Italian tenor Enrico Caruso is due to sing in Covent Garden later in the year, and Fred and Will are still in Milan desperate to record him. Their plan – in what predates the now-ubiquitous music industry ‘360’ marketing deal by over 100 years – is to print the master discs onto shellac and release the records in London in time for C […]
  • The last castrato April 29, 2020
    Fred and his brother William travel to Milan in 1902 with the aim of convincing opera superstar Enrico Caruso to record for them. However Caruso is busy and non-committal, so the men seek out other forms of sound to record while they wait for an answer. Aiming high, they approach the Pope to ask if he’d be up for recording something (as you would). The ponti […]
  • Russian revolutions (part two) April 22, 2020
    After the mixed success of the recording trip to Russia in 1900, it is a curious decision of Fred’s to return to the country the following year. But back he goes – twice ­– with a point to prove. Still waiting for that elusive breakthrough, The Gramophone Company has diversified into typewriters and Fred’s not happy. He needs good music, fast. He records ope […]
  • Russian revolutions (part one) April 15, 2020
    The first of two episodes following Fred on recording expeditions to Russia. In early 1900, with their bosses dissatisfied with what they’ve recorded to date, Fred and his colleague Sinker Darby are under pressure to find fascinating sounds. Their agents in St Petersburg, charged with finding singers and musicians, are useless and corrupt so Fred and Sinkler […]
  • The first propaganda record April 8, 2020
    In the early days of recorded sound, no one can quite figure out the purpose of gramophones. Are they serious bits of kit for replicating music or are they toys? Should gramophone discs play music or comedy or something else entirely? One man trying to work out this conundrum is an American actor called Russell Hunting. An eccentric hustler, Hunting invents […]
  • Syria Lamonte, the world’s first female recording star March 18, 2020
    Just weeks after arriving in London, Fred makes the world’s first disc recording of a female singer outside of America. The lady’s name is Syria Lamonte and, according to Fred, she’s a barmaid in Rule’s restaurant, next to his studio on Maiden Lane. Lamonte – real name Sarah Cohen – is an Australian who arrived in London from Sydney in 1896. Her recordings, […]
  • Fred Gaisberg arrives in London March 9, 2020
    Summer 1898. Fred Gaisberg arrives in London to set up The Gramophone Company at the behest of his American boss Emile Berliner, who invented the flat-disc gramophone. Before Berliner, music only lasted for as long as the notes hung in the air. Now, Fred is under orders to commit as many artists as possible to disc. The recording technology is rudimentary to […]

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  • City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
  • Delia Derbyshire
  • First Sounds
  • Historic Masters
  • Johnson Victrola Museum
  • Music Preserved
  • Phonozoic
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  • The official site of EMI Group Archive Trust
  • The Rocking Vicar
  • The Sound Archive at the British Library

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