Category: Early Recording Industry

Celebrating Black Performers in the New and Expanded National Jukebox!

July 12, 2021

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

This post was written by David Sager, Reference Specialist in the Recorded Sound Section. The Library of Congress National Jukebox has been updated and expanded! With a new URL, //www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/about-this-collection/, and a new user-friendly player, the Jukebox is not only more flexible, but far more massive in scope, with the addition over 4,000 recordings from …

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On the Recording Registry: “The OKeh Laughing Record” (1922)

June 24, 2021

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

“The OKeh Laughing Record” original label Imported into the United States in 1922, “The OKeh Laughing Record” is one of the most unusual, (in its way) influential, and surprisingly enduring novelty records ever recorded. Actually, there is nothing overly complicated about the recording itself. On it, a solo cornetist begins a rather slow, sad, even …

Posted in: Early Recording Industry, National Recording Registry, Recorded Sound