Jumbo Scrambled Word
Game of Beatles in Recording Studio Making a Record, Lincoln
Journal, April 9, 2024 - See Answer HERE.
The Internet is making what virtually
extinct?
The April 23, 2010 issue of PC
World 10 listed 10 things. What was Number 5?
5. Listening
to albums
Remember putting "Dark Side of the
Moon" on the turntable or slipping "Graceland" into your CD tray?
Your kids won't. Not only will the concept of music delivered
via molecules -- hard media -- seem totally 20th century, but
the entire concept of an album (let alone a "concept album") will
be lost on them. Over the past decade, sales of complete albums
-- even the nonmolecular versions -- declined 55 percent to less
than 400 million in 2009, according to Nielsen SoundScan. During
roughly the same period, sales of individual digital tracks have
soared from zero to nearly 1.2 billion. Apple iTunes and file-sharing
networks have nearly obliterated the notion of listening to more
than one song by one artist in a row. "Gee Dad, what did you do
before Apple invented 'shuffle'? God, you're so old."
"13 things kids born after
2011 will never know"
Likewise, an article/slide-show in
the June 2014 in the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper identified
"13 things kids born after 2011 will never know" suggesting
again that the end was near. Records and six other media devices
related to "recording" (i.e., Discman", "WalkMan",
"Boombox", "Video Cassettes", "35mm Cameras"
and "Floppy Discs") were included in that JournalStar
obituary.
10 Sounds You May Never
Hear Again which included "Needle of Vinyl."
- Slideshow on MSN LifeStyle,
April 7, 2015
Mailer for Brass Trio Concert used
a Victor Gramophone with a trombone connected to where the tone
arm would normally be and a trumpet in the rear and the phonograph
horn as its promotional logo. February 6, 2007.
ARTHUR - Scene where there is confusion
between what's a telephone and what's a phonograph
Source: Television show "Arthur"
Episode Number: 10 Season Num: 1
First Aired: Monday November 11,
1996 Prod Code: 1-10
#11002 "Francine Frensky, Superstar"
Francine has always gotten the worst
roles in school plays, so everyone in the Ratburn class asks Mr.
Ratburn to give her a good part in the next one. The play is about
Thomas Edison, and Francine is given the role of Edison himself.
She takes her role very seriously, to the point where she starts
to trying to run everything her way and insults her friends. After
the hurt and the anger, they set out to show her that she can't
just forget their needs.
In the Edison play, the characters
have the following roles: Francine plays Thomas Edison, Arthur is
the first phonograph, Buster is the first incandescent lamp, Sue
Ellen plays a kinetoscope, Binky is the train in The Great Train
Robbery, Jenna, Fern and Steve (the gray-rabbit boy) are news reporters,
and Muffy is a cowgirl.
Francine: Prepare to be amazed.
Arthur: (he is supposed to
be playing a phonograph) All operators are busy. Please hang up
and dial again.
Francine: (she hisses in
his ear) You're a phonograph. Play music.
Arthur: If you are calling
from a touch-tone phone, press one now.
Additional Phonograph Reference:
Mr. Ratburn's line about Thomas Edison
inventing the record player can be heard echoing in the remixed
version of the main title theme available on the Arthur's Really
Rockin' Music Mix album
Word of the Day for Monday, February
1, 2010
mondegreen \MON-di-green\,
noun: A word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word
or phrase that has been heard.
Mondegreens can be found in
every area of the spoken word, from the record buyer who
asks for a copy of the Queen single "Bohemian Rap City" to the schoolchild
who is convinced that the Pledge of Allegiance begins "I led the
pigeons to the flag." -- Gavin Edwards, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss
This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics.
Turntable Icon Welcomes Visitors to Yerba Buena Neighborhood
August 2011 - San Francisco
Banners on lightposts in downtown
San Francisco include a turntable stylized to represent dining.
The Yerba Buena website states
the following: "Yerba Buena is a San Francisco neighborhood
of artists, patrons, urbanistas, fashionistas, movie lovers, night
clubbers, shop keepers, score keepers, entrepreneurs, restauranteurs,
worker bees, retirees, technologists and mixologists."
The Google Doodle for February
11, 2011 - In honor of
Thomas Edison's 164th birthday this Google Doodle was posted.
Google Doodle celebrates Thomas
Edison's birthday
USA Today, February 11,
2011 by Emily Banks, Mashable
It is probably safe to say that without
Thomas Edison, technology — and life, in general — as we know it
would be completely different. From the light bulb, to the phonograph,
to the motion picture camera, and his hundreds of other patents,
Edison's inventions have shaped our world.
And today, February 11, the inventor
and scientist is celebrated on Google's homepage with a special
Doodle for what would be his 164th birthday.
The Doodle showcases animated sketches
of some of the above-mentioned inventions, including a glowing incandescent
bulb and whirring type-writing machine. The handful of Edison-inspired
sketches in the Doodle are only a small fraction of the inventor's
patents.
Nipper in a modern advertisement
for Radio Shack and True Value Hardware, 2011
This storefront on Highway 101 in
Ft. Bragg, CA, represents another marketing cycle for Nipper and
the gramophone.
.
.
.August 2011 - Fort
Bragg, CA
Ebay the Talking Auction
Game (2001 Hasbro) where one of the bidding cards on the box
is an Edison "Standard" Phonograph, an iconic "antique"
for 21st century Ebay bidders.
Salt and Pepper
Shakers
Novelty salt and pepper shakers are
seldom seen in modern homes. If
one of the following sets is put on the table young children might
be seeing a gramophone or Nipper for the first time.
Home Decorations
- Figurines and Music Boxes
Teapots
Jingle Bells
On Sunday Morning
(CBS News) on December 24, 2023 the Young People's Chorus of NYC
performed "Jingle
Bells." At the end of the song the "Sunday Index"
identified three Factolas about "Jingle Bells:" 1) "Jingle
Bells" was originally called "The One Horse Open Sleigh"
2) "Jingle Bells" (played by a banjo but not sung) was
recorded on an Edison cylinder in 1889 and is believed to be the
very first Christmas recording; and 3) "Jingle Bells"
was written in 1850 by James Lord Pierpont (the uncle of J.P. Morgan).
Sunday Morning
(CBS News), December 24, 2023
FACTOLA: The
Edison cylinder record "Jingle Bells" played by banjoist Will Lyle,
October 30,1889, is believed to be the first recording of what is
now known in popular culture as a Christmas record. "One horse open
Sleigh" by J. Pierpont was published in 1857 as the original title
but was soon renamed "Jingle Bells" and appeared as such on the
front panel of the sheet music in 1859 (and thereafter).
See Phonographia's Jingle
Bells and Sleighride Party to listen and learn about the history
of "Jingle Bells" and its recordings.
See Wikipedia's
"Jingle Bells" for more details about the history
of the song, lyrics, composition, authorship, and recordings.
