A 20-something Alabama man may be sitting on a goldmine with thousands of 78 RPM records he inherited from his grandfather. Or. maybe not. Now it’s time for the thrill of the search and research. A 78 ...

Recording history in India dates back to 1902, when some of the earliest discs were cut. Soon after, recordings of legendary singer Gauhar Jaan began circulating widely.

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In June I was in Whitesburg, east Kentucky, in Letcher County. I was told that a woman outside of town had some records she was looking to get rid of—a friend of a friend found her niece’s number in ...

In August 1959, iconic Bengali actor Suchitra Sen recorded a song in her own voice at the Gramophone Company office in Kolkata, leaving behind a rare 78 rpm 'test record'. After recording the song, ...

Amanda Petrusich's fascination with 78 RPM records and the obsessives who collect them led her to the bottom of the Milwaukee River. Credit: Bret Stetka In spring 2011, New York music journalist ...

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler ...

Amanda Petrusich is a contributing writer for Pitchfork. Her work has also appeared at NPR Music. With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt ...