Barbara Holdridge, who helped pave the way for the billion-dollar audiobook industry as a co-founder of Caedmon Records — a women-owned label that created a treasury of spoken-word recordings by ...

The 2025 Grammy Awards will air on Sunday, February 2 at 8 p.m. on CBS and Paramount Plus. Presidents, first ladies, and senators have been recognized for their recording achievements. Jimmy Carter ...

Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work. By Glenn Rifkin Barbara Holdridge, who ...

The word saw, ahem, record usage in The New York Times in 2008. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper. On Dec.

The first sounds ever heard on a phonograph were neither sung nor played, but spoken. “Mary had a little lamb,” Thomas A. Edison shouted into his primitive cylindrical recording machine, which ...

In 1987, L.A. Theatre Works took the audio world by storm with a word-by-word recording of "Babbitt," the seminal novel by Sinclair Lewis, starring Edward Asner in the title role and with a 33-member ...

Everything in Jimmy Page’s music career was a building block for Led Zeppelin. The guitarist learned studio tricks used by producers during his time as a session musician. He also learned how to work ...

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