Another Anniversary! (who knew???)

Today, August 12th, is an Official Forgotten Hits Holiday!  A Day Off for Forgotten Hitters everywhere!  

For today is NATIONAL VINYL RECORD DAY, a day to acknowledge Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877, a critical moment in History without which could have very well prevented the creation years later of Kent Kotal establishing Forgotten Hits!

Altho his original first recording has been lost, in a later year, Edison did recreate for posterity his rendition of what is generally credited as being the very first recorded Forgotten Hit, “Mary Had a Little Lamb!”

 

But revolving back to 1877 at 160 RPMs, the spinning speed of Edison’s Sound Recording Cylinder, to a recently uncovered weekend event a short time after his first historical recording, a lesser-known historical event was discovered when Edison got some of his inventor buddies together in his barn and formed the first known garage band, “Thomas Edison and His Men in Rotating Cylinders!” The featured song they played and sang most of the day? An improved and revised version of his first recorded song!

 

OK, I might have made the last part of the story up but still . . .

 

CB ( which stands for “Cylinder Boy!”

 

For those of you out there keeping score, this is Chuck Buell's THIRD post for the month of August!  (Thanks, Buddy, for helping to fill some of the gaps when I just can't pull things together in time!)

  

If you scroll back to August 1st, you'll find Chuck's piece on recorded music rockin' in outer space ...

 

The very next day, he reminded us all about The First Day Of School ... along with a quick education on the #2 pencil.

 

And now today, a salute to vinyl records ... and Thomas Edison's discovery and invention as to how to record your voice for others to hear.

 

In fact, I suppose that if I were a clever enough person, I might even suggest that you could "bookend" this little CB triolgy as ...

 

SPACE ... The Vinyl Frontier

 

but I'm just not that guy!!!

 

(I know, I know ... that's pretty bad ... 

 

So just grab your Portable, Handheld, User-Friendly, No Batteries Required, Word-Processing Device from article #2 ... and pretend I never said it!)

 

[thanks, Chuck!]

 

P.S.  In the middle of all of these dedicated posts, you'll also find CB's review of the Rod Stewart concert he attended last week with his son!  

That's an Ooga-Chucka-Lotsa-Chucka Buell on display of late!  (kk)