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    • Trident Studios Control Rooms late 1970’s
  • Podcasts
    • Episode 20 – Simon Blumlein on Alan Blumlein
    • Episode 19 – Giles Martin
    • Episode 18: Adelina Patti
    • Episode 17: Dame Nellie Melba
    • Episode 16: William Barry Owen
    • Episode 15 – Sinkler Darby
    • Episode 14 – Feodor Chaliapin
    • Episode 13 – Emma Calvé
    • Episode 12 – To Japan
    • Episode 11 – To India
    • Episode 10 – Fred’s plaque
    • Episode 9 – Interview with Joe Boyd
    • Episode 8 – James Hall on The Industry of Human Happiness
    • Episode 7 – The Caruso breakthrough
    • Episode 6 – The last castrato
    • Episode 5 – Russian revolutions (part two)
    • Episode 4 – Russian revolutions (part one)
    • Episode 3 – The first propaganda record
    • Episode 1 – Fred Gaisberg arrives in London
    • Episode 2 – Syria Lamonte, the world’s first female recording star

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Would it be nice?

January 22nd 1966. 7pm. Gold Star Recording Studios, Los Angeles. Brian Wilson and The Wrecking Crew……would it be nice? Yes. turns out it would! Great song. Great recording.

Posted byNipperMay 5, 2011Posted in1966, great recordings, HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC, making a recording, RECORDINGSTags:1966, brian wilson, gold star studios, the beach boys, the wrecking crewLeave a comment on Would it be nice?

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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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  • #20 Simon Blumlein July 26, 2021
    In a bonus episode to round off Series 2, Dave and James talk to Simon Blumlein about his father Alan Dower Blumlein, the extraordinary man who among others things invented stereo sound.Alan Dower Blumlein was an electronic engineer and one of the most significant inventors in the first half of the twentieth century, being responsible for 128 patents in his […]
  • #19 Giles Martin July 20, 2021
    This series of The Sound of the Hound ends with an interview with Giles Martin, the Grammy-winning record producer and son of Beatles producer Sir George. With this episode it feels as though we’ve come full circle: Giles was there at the plaque unveiling that we featured in the first episode of the series. And his family has a direct connection to that Maid […]
  • #18 Adelina Patti July 6, 2021
    Bonkers, basically. The story of opera singer Adelina Patti is one of the most eye-popping of all the tales we explore in this series. The saga starts in Madrid, where Patti was born in 1843, before it takes us to Clapham in South London, moves around the world and ends in a haunted castle in Wales. As well as being in possession of a stunning voice, Patti m […]
  • #17 Nellie Melba June 29, 2021
    Melba toast. Peach Melba. Melba sauce. Why are we listing foodstuffs (and sounding a bit like Alan Partridge in the process)? Because they are all named after the subject of this episode of The Sound of the Hound, Nellie Melba. The soprano was one of the most famous singers of the era – and it was Fred who captured her voice for us to enjoy over 100 years la […]
  • #16 William Barry Owen June 22, 2021
    With these episodes focusing on the life and work of the mighty Fred Gaisberg, we may have given the impression that he was his own boss. That would be wrong. Working for The Gramophone Company in London, Fred was answerable to a man called William Barry Owen. In this episode we tell Owen’s story. It was his business acumen and vision that saw The Gramophone […]
  • #15 Sinkler Darby June 15, 2021
    Every hero has a sidekick. And in this episode we tell the story of Fred’s wingman, the wonderfully named William Sinkler Darby. Five years Fred’s junior, fellow American Sinkler was by his boss’s side as he established The Gramophone Company in London and travelled the world to capture sound. Their tale is like a buddy movie: it’s Batman & Robin meets T […]
  • #14 Feodor Chaliapin June 8, 2021
    In this episode we look at the epic – and we mean epic – story of Russian bass singer Feodor Chaliapin. The singer’s relationship with Fred spanned decades, continents, wars and revolutions. It is a tale about music but it is also a tale about the extraordinary power of friendship. And spats. It’s a story about spats. And potatoes. And backstage punch-ups. T […]
  • #13 Emma Calve June 1, 2021
    Diva alert! In episode four, Holley and Hall tell the story of the recording of one of opera’s greatest characters, Emma Calvé. Basking in the glory of having captured the voice of the mighty Enrico Caruso in Milan (as outlined in Series One of The Sound of the Hound), Fred goes on something of a recording spree back in London. But he gets more than he barga […]
  • #12 To Japan May 25, 2021
    After India, Fred goes to the Far East. But when he arrives in Tokyo in January 1903, he is rocked by some terrible family news. Stuck on the other side of the world, Fred does what he’s done countless times before: he throws himself into his job. Once the crates and crates of equipment are finally released by Japanese customs, he embarks on a recording fren […]
  • #11 To India May 18, 2021
    It’s late summer 1902. Fred heads to Tilbury Docks to board the steamer SS Coromandel and set sail for India. His objective? “To open up new markets, establish agencies, and acquire a catalogue of native records,” as he puts it in his diary. And what a trip it is. Accompanied by an assistant called George Dilnutt and a few others, Gaisberg engages in some of […]

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