The Music Thread

I know I’m way behind the times, but I recently discovered Teddy Swims. I love his music. It has a 1960s Motown vibe.

 
On another note. Why not take a few minutes and learn something instead of banging your head listening to Snowfall today.

American inventor Thomas Edison patented the phonograph

phonograph, instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus, or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc. A phonograph disc, or record, stores a replica of sound waves as a series of undulations in a sinuous groove inscribed on its rotating surface by the stylus. When the record is played back, another stylus responds to the undulations, and its motions are then reconverted into sound.


Thomas Edison's phonograph of 1877
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Thomas Edison's phonograph of 1877Thomas Edison's phonograph of 1877.By transcribing sound vibrations as a series of tiny pits on the tinfoil surface of a revolving cylinder, this became the first device to play back recorded sound.
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gramophoneEmile Berliner's gramophone of 1888.By recording sound as an undulating side-to-side groove on a flat disc, Berliner's invention established the basic design for the next 100 years of phonographic record players.
Though experimental mechanisms of this type appeared as early as 1857, the invention of the phonograph is generally credited to the American inventor Thomas Edison (1877). His first recordings were indentations embossed into a sheet of tinfoil by a vibrating stylus; the tinfoil was wrapped around a cylinder that was rotated as the sounds were being recorded. Improvements in Edison’s process followed, notable among which were Emil Berliner’s innovation in 1887 of tracing sound grooves in a spiral on a flat disc rather than in a helix on a cylinder. A negative was made from the flat master disc, and the negative then used as a mold for making many copies that reproduced the original master disc. These “records,” as they came to be known, could be played on a reproducing machine Berliner named a Gramophone.


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Improved methods of molding disc records followed in the early 20th century, and by 1915 the 78-RPM (revolutions-per-minute) record, with a playing time of about 4 1/2 minutes per side, had become standard. In the early 1920s electric loudspeakers were adopted to amplify the volume of reproduced sound. In 1948 Columbia Records introduced the long-playing (LP) record, which, with a rotational speed of 331/3 RPM and the use of very fine grooves, could yield up to 30 minutes of playing time per side. Shortly afterward RCA Corporation introduced the 45-RPM disc, which could play for up to 8 minutes per side. These LP’s and “singles” supplanted 78s in the 1950s, and stereophonic (or “stereo”) systems, with two separate channels of information in a single groove, became a commercial reality in 1958. Stereo phonographs capable of the undistorted reproduction of sound became one component of what is known as a high-fidelity sound system.
 
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Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker was born February 20, 1950.
This song is about Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who produced the finest LSD known to mankind. I first sampled Owsley's product in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, courtesy of a member of Hells Angels, in fall 1967.

 
This one may have been posted already... hope so. If it hasn't - here ya go. The cool back story is Smokey was given the track (music only) by Stevie Wonder and was asked if he could come up with a song, lyrics, melody... for the already recorded track. Smokey said he heard Barnum and Bailey right off the bat. Decided he wanted to write a song about Pagliacci . Smokey had heard a story when he was younger, About how the clown would smile all during the circus performances but would go back to his tent when all alone and cry because he didn't have the love of a woman... the love of 1000's of adoring fans, but not the love of a woman.

A side note - I was 100% positive Motown bass player James Jamerson played bass on the original track (and he may have on the original 1967 track - the one Stevie gave to Smokey) but the 1970 massive hit may have had Bob Babbitt playing the iconic bass line. Fuck me if that Motown stuff wasn't the shit! Still is! Ain't too Proud to Beg; RESPECT; Ain't No Mountain High Enough; Tears of a Clown; Uptight (Everything is Alright);...

 
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