WEBVTT NEWS 8'S SUSAN SHAPIROVISITED A COMPANY INPHILADELPHIA THAT IS MAKING ITHAPPEN.REPORTER THE SOUND OF LONG AGOSTASHED IN BASEMENTS AND STORAGEAREAS.THOSE 78 RECORDS POPULAR FROMTHE LATE 1800'S ...

Oct. 13—Richard Hinds settles the tonearm gently into the grooves of the 78 record, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers rises from the rotating disc and buzzes the room. " ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...

In 1952, a twenty-nine-year-old record collector named Harry Everett Smith squirreled himself away in a two-room office at 111 West Forty-Seventh Street, chewing on peyote buttons and compiling a ...

In the early ‘70s, a group of friends started importing the blues and jazz records they wanted to listen to but couldn’t find. Their cottage industry quickly blossomed into 78 Records, which – through ...

Records and machines to play them on have been around for over 100 years. Mass-produced recorded music for the home began in the early 1900s with Thomas Edison's cylinder players. After a few short ...

Made of ground stone mixed with carbon black and the secretion of the South Asian lac beetle, 78 RPM discs were the dominant sound-recording medium for a half-century. Nowadays, we often think of them ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...