Musings On Music History: The First Sound Recording, The Biggest ’60s Music Fest, and Madonna Walk Into A Bar…
08.12: On this day way back in 1877, the first sound recording ever is made by Thomas Edison. What was that first recording? It was Edison reciting “Mary Had A Little Lamb.” Little did he know, at the time, the power of recorded sound and the directions it would take popular culture. Or that his…