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Brass Band In Studio Recording(Original Caption) New York, NY: Gramophone recording session in Edison Studio in New York. Brass band performing. Photograph, ca. 1908
Frank Sinatra And Dinah Shore(Original Caption) Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore record, "Tea for Two" on a special Columbia record for the benefit of the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for5 Cancer Research. Undated photograph
French Musicians At A Recording Session(Original Caption) Grammaphone: French musicians during a recording session. Master disk can be seen in machine in front. Photograph, ca. 1905
Woody Herman & His Band Recording(Original Caption) Woody Herman, Columbia Records star, leads the "Herd" as they make another hit recording in the Columbia Studios
Tommy Dorsey Playing The Trombone(Original Caption) Tommy Dorsey playing the trombone during a recording session. Undated photo circa 1940s
Duke Ellington And Count Basie(Original Caption) Picture shows Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Count Basie (1904-1984), American Jazz musicians, together in a recording studio. Undated photo circa 1950s
Woodcut Gramophone W/Long Soundhorn(Original Caption) Woodcut, 1904. Early gramophone with a long, decorative soundhorn
John Hays Hammond, Jr(Original Caption) 12/28/1914: Photo of John Hays Hammond, JR. record producer, standing alone, full length, in a room
John Hays Hammond, Jr(Original Caption) 12/28/1914: Photo of John Hays Hammond, JR. record producer, sitting alone, full length, in a room
Indian Chief Recording War Songs(Original Caption) 2/24/1916 - Smithsonian Institute - Washington, DC: Mountain chief of the Blackfoot Indians in full tribal uniform seated infront of grammaphone singing war songs
Lenin Making RecordingBolshevik revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, speaks into a recorder
Leo the Lion Being Recorded(Original Caption) 1/28/29- Now that the talkies are making all the human stores sound their vowels and constants properly, Leo, the M.G.M. Lion has decided that he had better look to his laurels
Judy Garland Sings with Bing Crosby(Original Caption) Photograph of Judy Garland and Bing Crosby singing into a microphone in a studio, reading from sheet music. Crosby wears a hat. Undated photograph
Woody Herman at Recording SessionJazz musician and bandleader Wood Herman smiles with his clarinet during recording sessions at Columbia Recording Studios
Tommy Dorsey's Saxophone Section(Original Caption) 5/7/1940- Maestro Dorsey's five-man saxophone section is strutting its stuff here in a test pressing. The boys do a lot of blowing to make a recording
Tommy Dorsey with Engineer in Studio(Original Caption) 5/7/1940-New York
Count Basie, Richard Wright at Recording Session(Original Caption) 11/24/1940-Richard Wright (r) and Count Basie at recording session where Basie band recorded music by Clinton R. Brewer, a convict who has been in prison since 1931
Soundman Recording Ann Miller Tap DancingSwift-footed Ann Miller, Columbia's number one dancing attraction, establishes a new record in hot foot circles by tapping out 585 taps per minute
Frank Sinatra In The Recording Studio(Original Caption) 03/27/1944-New York, NY: Portrait of Frank Sinatra singing in the recording studio. Full frame photo
Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn In StudioActors on the set of the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story
Man Records Street Vendor On Phonograph(Original Caption) Paris, France: Parisian street scene: Asparagus seller's sales talk is recorded on a grammaphone. Undated photograph
Operatic Soprano Recording(Original Caption) Galli Curci, Operatic Soprano recording in early London sound Studio
Senator Warren Harding Making a Recording(Original Caption) Senator Warren Harding, campaigning in 1920, making a phonograph record of a speech in his office. Photograph
Paula And Dorothy Stone Singing Together(Original Caption) - Paula and Dorothy Stone with Hunt Stromberg, Jr
Man Recording Voice On Film(Original Caption) A man demonstrates the early process of recording sound on film. Undated photograph
Nurse Recording The Names Of Newcomers(Original Caption) The Foundling Hospital - Recording the names of newcomers. Undated illustration
Ad For Columbia Cabinet Phonograph(Original Caption) Advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola "Nonpareil" cabinet phonograph. Undated illustration
Poster For The Edison Concert Phonograph(Original Caption) Poster advertising the Edison Concert Phonograph. Illustration depicts a "conductor" playing a recording in front of a large concert hall audience. Copyright 1899
Illustration Of Early Recording Phonogra(Original Caption) A new recording phonograph from Edison; the latest apparatus presented to the Academy of Sciences by Monsieur Col. Gourand
Illustration of a Quipu, a Peruvian Calculating Device(Original Caption) Illustration of The Quipu. Employed by the ancient Peruvians for record-keeping and calculating. The cords are variously colored and are knotted as reference marks. BPA2# 869
Phonograph Recording Apparatus For Piano(Original Caption) Illustration depicting an apparatus for registering piano music by the phonograph. Woodcut circa 1890. (Photo by AS400 DB/Bettmann Archive)
Woman at Window Display RecorderWindow shopping, once wholly in the category of pastimes, has been given a new and practical turn
Sigmund Romberg Composing At Home Studio(Original Caption) 08/11/1950. Because of its "Orchestra Quality, " Sigmund Romberg does most of his actual composing at his Hammond organ
Joseph McCarthy Recording Testimony(Original Caption) 5/5/1952- Washington, DC- Senator Joseph R
Senator Joseph McCarthy Recording TestimonySenator Joseph R. McCarthy stands by the tape recorder that caused all the row at the pre-trial hearing of his slander suit against Senator William Benton
Louis Jordan In A Recording Session(Original Caption) 1/8/54-New York: Louis Jordan records under a new label, cutting 16 sides in three days. This year he is the biggest star of Aladdin Records under a new contract. UPI photograph
Peers Celebrating Caruso's 50th Anniversary(Original Caption) 1/26/1954-New York
Frank Sinatra And Rosemary Clooney(Original Caption) Rosemary Clooney and Frank Sinatra at a recording session at Columbia Field 1955
Elvis Presley PerformingA crowd of screaming teenage girls reach for Elvis Presley as he sings on stage
Dorothy Collins and Husband Raymond Scott in Recording Studio(Original Caption) 5/3/1957-Manhasset, New York: Composer-conductor Raymond Scott and his wife, singer Dorothy Collins, conduct a recording session in their home studio
Sharp NotesHand-clapping, foot-stamping and other sounds of audience participation fill the M.G.M. recording studio to get Sister Rosetta Tharp into the proper mood for a rousing spiritual
Count Basie and Frank Sinatra(Original Caption) 1962: Count Basie and Frank Sinatra recording with a big band in a studio
Sinatra and Crosby in Recording Studio(Original Caption) 7/29/1963-Hollywood, CA: Recording history is made as Frank Sinatra (L) and Bing Crosby cut their first record together for Sinatra's Reprise Records
Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg(Original Caption) LSD drug advocate Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg (L) at the Village Gate Theatre where the League for Spiritual Development sponsored film
Hank Williams, Jr. in Recording Studio(Original Caption) 12/6/1967- Hollywood, CA- One of the eariest sounds in all of show business can be found on a couple of record albums featuring the duets of Hank Willams, Jr
Erich Leinsdorf Conducting for Recording(Original Caption) 12/16/1967- Intense concentration, tremendous involvement-- conductor Erich Leinsdorf is caught during an RCA-Victor recording session
Mastering of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass(Original Caption) 10/31/70- NEW YORK: "Beatle" George Harrison, sporting below-the-shoulder-length hair
Karen and Richard Carpenter with Herb AlpertRecording artist Herb Alpert (right)
Stephen Sondheim Listens To Recording(Original Caption) 3/12/1979-New York, NY: Composer Stephen Sondheim, closeup, as he listened to playback of the original cast recording of the musical "Sweeney Todd" at the RCA Studios, NYC