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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Keith Harrison - Recorded Sound: the First Two

First Sounds.Org

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

British Record Shop Archive

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

23-10-22 Listen here

Further Information:

* CLPGS Website

Photo: Gramophone Company Studio 1898 First Commercial Disc Recording Studio in Europe Fred Gaisberg Diary EMI Archive Trust