nor the Johnny Cash.

Yeah, but I've got Johnny Cash's special holiday message which is way more important. "You know it's not cool to kill for Christmas. But if you must..."

Perkins I'll post it for you.

Thanks Hec!

Thanks Hec!

You're welcome. It's up.

Listening to America's Back Forty.

Had the novel experience of hearing an actual record played on the radio. She played "Stranger in the Manger" by the Terminators of Endearment. It's a 45 I own as well. I thought at first that her copy was warped but it turns out she couldn't find the spider and tried to align the 45 on the turntable by eyeballing it. Made me realize you don't hear that kind of thing on the radio much anymore.

I play vinyl on my show all the time....

If I had a show, I'd still be playing vinyl sometimes. Hell, I'd play shellac. I last had a show in college and I definitely remember how tricky it was eyeballing where the 45 was supposed to be placed in absence of a spider.

When did they stop making records out of Bakelite?

When did wax cylinders become obsolete?

Was music ever released commercially recorded on wire? (Sound can be recorded on wire in the same way it's recorded on tape. Airplane black boxes used to record to wire.)

I don't know that anything was ever commercially released on wire, but hobbyists made wire recordings of radio broadcasts.

Here's a site of very old recordings (mostly wax cylinders). I just listened to a lead cylinder recording of an experimental "talking clock" recorded in 1878!

eta: oh, here's the link: [link]

eta² that was, "The world's earliest playable sound recording."

Yes, that tinfoil site is cool. Wish they used MP3 instead of RealAudio, though.