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CLPGS Lectures
Audio Recordings from the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
Lectures on the History of the Phonograph and Gramophone: Music, Technology and Industry
All Content provided has been organised by CLPGS
Delivered at London, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Ethical Society
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Uploads to Ambientscape beginning from October 2022
John Kobylecky - Pop Music Hits in Britain During the 2nd World War
20-05-25 Listen here
Ben Jackson/Robert Hazle - Noel Howard: The Master's Voice
15-04-25 Listen here
Peter Martland - The Major German Recording Industry Pioneer
18-03-25 Listen here
Ferenc Szabo - Eternola Edison Bell Ltd in Hungary
18-02-25 Listen here
Barbara Gentili - Singing at the Time of Verismo
21-01-25 Listen here
Catherine Tackley - The Music of the British Dance Bands
View Powerpoint presentation
Stream the music
19-11-24 Listen here
Steve Paget - Different Sized 78rpm and Other Discs
15-10-24 Listen here
Alan Dein - Petticoat Lane Foxtrot (Extract Part 1)
View Powerpoint presentation
Stream his selected records
17-09-24 Listen here
William Sheffield - Personifying the Talking Machine
View PowerpointPoint presentation
20-08-24 Listen here
Howard Hope - Alternative Sound Recording Technologies
20-08-24 Listen here
Robert Girling - Durium Flexible Records
16-07-24 Listen here
Elaine Hedger - Collecting and Beyond
16-07-24 Listen here
Tim Wood-Woolley - A Presention on the Mighty Radio
18-06-24 Listen here
Theo Morgan - Britain's First Number Ones
View Powerpoint presentation
21-05-24 Listen here
Tony Clayden - The Golden Age of Library Music
16-04-24 Listen here
Aurea Dominguez - The Role of Women in the Phonograph
and Gramophone Industries
19-03-24 Listen here
Inya Stanovic - New Takes on Old Machines
20-02-24 Listen here
Peter Martland - 1902 G&T Recording Expedition to Italy
21-11-23 Listen here
Nick Dellow - Electric Cylinder & Sound Restoration
17-10-23 Listen here
Mike Purton - Both Sides of the Microphone
19-09-23 Listen here
Keith Hubbard - Jamaica's First Recording Studio
15-08-23 Listen here
Christopher Proudfoot - A Look at the Gramophone
15-08-23 Listen here
William Sheffield - Song Slides: The Phonograph
15-08-23 Listen here
Theo Morgan - The Last Survivors of Shellac
View PowerPoint presentation
18-07-23 Listen here
John Dale - The National Jazz Archive
20-06-23 Listen here
Keith Harrison - Recorded Sound: the First Two
16-05-23 Listen here
Tim Wood-Woolley - One Hit Wonders on Blue Amberol
16-05-23 Listen here
Garth Cartwright - A Century of UK Record Shops
18-04-23 Listen here
Tom Stephenson - The Signs of Music
Certain tracks have been edited out
21-03-23 Listen here
Simon Heighes - Great British Choral Tradition on Record
View PowerPoint presentation
21-03-23 Listen here
Theo Morgan - Bob and Alf Pearson: The Musical Duo
View PowerPoint presentation
21-02-23 Listen here
Howard Hope - Advertising Records
Stream his selected records
17-01-23 Listen here
Theo Morgan - First UK Singles Chart 70th Anniversary
View PowerPoint presentation
15-11-22 Listen here
Steve Paget - American Musicians in Great Britain
18-10-22 Listen here
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