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The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The First Recording of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer”

Chris Ware and Scott Yoo discuss the history behind the first recording of Scott Joplin's ragtime classic "The Entertainer." ...
Yahoo

'90s Country Queen Recording First Album in Over 10 Years

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country powerhouse Jo Dee Messina, the voice behind some of the biggest hits of the late 1990s and early 2000s — “Heads Carolina, ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1953, Elvis Presley Made His First Ever Recording for $3.98

In 1953, Elvis Presley was a spry young lad working as a truck driver. Specifically, in 1953, Presley was 18 years old and was driving trucks for Crown Electric Company based out of Memphis, Tennessee ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1963, This Song Became the First Live Recording To Hit No. 1 in the US (And I Bet You Can’t Guess Who It Is)

On this day in 1963, an R&B and soul song climbed to the top of the charts in the US. It was also the first of its kind. Before this song came out, no other live recording of a performance had charted ...