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Songs by Tom Lehrer

Songs by Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer (1953)
cover: VG+
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Runaround Sue

Runaround Sue
Laurie Records/George Werthner

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash
The Finger

A Music Lovers Guide to Record Collecting

A Music Lovers Guide to Record Collecting
Dave Thompson



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The Laughing Papillon: A Short History of Vinyl Records

1930-1939

Magnetic Tape and Stereo Developments

1930   Bing Crosby records his first solo record - "I Remember Dear"

1930   Widespread radio broadcast causes a decline in the manufacture of records as radio delivers free music

1931   Alan Blumlein develops the "binaural" (stereo) recording at Bell Telephone laboratories

1931   Thomas Edison the inventor of recorded sound dies

1931   EMI studio opens in Abbey Road and employs Alan Blumlein to install his stereo recording system

1934   Wurlitzer introduces multiple-selection juke boxes

1939   Invention of the magnetic tape.

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