On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as “the Whispering Pianist” for his gentle croon, entered Columbia Phonograph Company’s studio to test out a newly installed electrical system.

who acquired the rights to the technology and began making dictation machines — Columbia Phonograph’s first product. Columbia Record Club Founded in 1955, the mail-order Club (later known as ...

Columbia Records, which in the late 1890s was known as the Columbia Phonograph Co. and released cylinders of music performed by various minstrel shows, often white men in blackface, remains a ...

and when he was eighteen years old he went to work for the Columbia Phonograph Company in Kansas City. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War I, and upon his return took a job with the General ...

James Smith hunched over the old Victrola phonograph as he rubbed primer onto the base of the machine. Rows of Victrola, Thomas Edison and Columbia phonographs lined a shelf in his shop.

an in-car phonograph. According to an article on the UAW-DaimlerChrysler National Training Center Web site, these record players--made by Columbia and offered as options on 1956 Chrysler ...

The Schubert Centennial this year is being sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Company along lines that have added greatly both here and abroad to the ever growing popularity of this great composer.

Phonograph fans hotly disagreed ... producing $156,000 for Columbia Records. When “hillybilly” music took off, the poor white Southern musicians who created that genre fared slightly better ...

and when he was eighteen years old he went to work for the Columbia Phonograph Company in Kansas City. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War I, and upon his return took a job with the General ...