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  2. Video Music Box - Wikipedia

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    Video Music Box is an American music television program. The series is the first to feature hip hop videos primarily, [3] [4] and was created in 1983 by Ralph McDaniels and Lionel C. Martin, who also serve as the series' hosts. [1] It aired on the New York City-owned public television station WNYC-TV (now WPXN-TV) from 1984 to 1996.

  3. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    Tinfoil Phonograph: In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first recorder that could also play back Analog; sound waveform transcribed to tinfoil 1883 Piano roll: A piano roll used in a player piano Digital (vacuum-operated piano) 1886 Music Box disc 8'' disc for playback on a music box Digital (vacuum-operated music box) Late 1880s Brown Wax cylinder

  4. Music Box Dancer - Wikipedia

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    He liked "Music Box Dancer" and added it to his station's playlist. The song's success at CFRA was swift. "Music Box Dancer" premiered on CFRA's top 30 chart on May 5, 1978; [5] by June 30, it was the #1 song on the station's playlist. [6] "Music Box Dancer" also began picking up play on other Canadian stations around this time, becoming a ...

  5. Phonograph - Wikipedia

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    Heumann, Michael. "Metal Machine Music: The Phonograph's Voice and the Transformation of Writing." eContact! 14.3 — Turntablism (January 2013). Montréal: CEC. Koenigsberg, Allen. The Patent History of the Phonograph, 1877–1912. APM Press, 1991. Reddie, Lovell N. (1908). "The Gramophone And The Mechanical Recording And Reproduction Of ...

  6. Jukebox - Wikipedia

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    In 1889, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, in San Francisco. [3] This was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of 'Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph'. The music was heard via one of four listening tubes. [4]

  7. Blue Amberol Records - Wikipedia

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    Blue Amberol Records was the trademark name for cylinder records manufactured by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in the US from 1912 to 1929. They replaced the 4-minute black wax Amberol cylinders introduced in 1908, which had replaced the 2-minute wax cylinders that had been the standard format since the late 1880s.

  8. Photograph (Def Leppard song) - Wikipedia

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    The track served as the lead single from the band's third studio album, which was titled Pyromania and came out in 1983. Although it has frequently been described as being a tribute to the entertainer Marilyn Monroe , the group's lead vocalist, Joe Elliott , has described the song as broadly about "something you can't ever get your hands on".

  9. Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia

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    Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.Commonly known simply as "records" in their heyday (c. 1896–1916), a name which has been passed on to their disc-shaped successor, these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which can ...