![]() On close inspection, the original painting still shows the contours of the Edison-Bell phonograph beneath the paint of the gramophone. Owen gave Barraud an entire gramophone and asked him to paint it into the picture, offering to buy the result. Barraud paid a visit with a photograph of the painting and asked to borrow a horn. The Gramophone Company in London was founded and managed by an American, William Barry Owen. The horn on the Edison-Bell machine was black and after a failed attempt at selling the painting to a cylinder record supplier of Edison Phonographs in the UK, a friend of Barraud's suggested that the painting could be brightened up (and possibly made more marketable) by substituting one of the brass-belled horns on display in the window at the new gramophone shop on Maiden Lane. Barraud's original painting depicts Nipper staring intently into the horn of an Edison-Bell while both sit on a polished wooden surface. Herbert Rose Barraud's deceased brother, a London photographer, willed him his estate, including his DC-powered Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph with a case of cylinders and his dog, named Nipper. Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan. Of these four accounts, the first two are the most generally accepted." The first use of the Victor title on a letterhead, on March 28, 1901, nine weeks after the death of British Queen Victoria. A third story is that Johnson's partner, Leon Douglass, derived the word from his wife's name 'Victoria.' Finally, a fourth story is that Johnson took the name from the popular 'Victor' bicycle, which he had admired for its superior engineering. RCA historian Fred Barnum gives various possible origins of the name in "His Master's Voice" In America, he writes, "One story claims that Johnson considered his first improved Gramophone to be both a scientific and business 'victory.' A second account is that Johnson emerged as the 'Victor' from the lengthy and costly patent litigations involving Berliner and Frank Seaman's Zonophone. There are different accounts as to how the "Victor" name came about. In 1896, Emile Berliner, the inventor of the gramophone and disc record, contracted machinist Eldridge R. After Victor merged with RCA in 1929, the company maintained its eminence as America's foremost producer of records and phonographs until the 1960s. Headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, Victor was the largest and most eminent firm of its kind in the world, best known for its use of the iconic " His Master's Voice" trademark, the production, marketing, and design of the popular "Victrola" line of phonographs and the company's extensive catalog of operatic and classical music recordings by world famous artists on the prestigious Red Seal label. The company operated independently until it was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in 1929 and subsequently operated as the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America. The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. ![]() The Isley Brothers: The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters (1959-83) will be released on 24 August 2015.Acquired by RCA in 1929 known today as RCA RecordsĬlassical, blues, popular, jazz, country, bluegrass, folk ![]() ![]() The music has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios. This Isley Brothers anthology was compiled and produced by Leo Sacks, with the help of Jeffrey James and Jeremy Holiday. This is newly restored and for the first time it is being released in its entirety.Īs can be seen from the image above, the CDs come in card sleeves accompanied by a booklet with everything residing in what looks like a clamshell box. One of the most significant inclusions is the ‘lost’ live-in-the-studio album Wild In Woodstock: The Isley Brothers Live At Bearsville Sound Studio 1980. In total this new collection includes 84 rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks. This will feature newly remastered versions of The Isley Brothers’ 21 albums released for both labels, nearly all of which are expanded with rare mixes and tracks making their CD and digital debuts. In August this year, Sony’s Legacy Recordings will release a massive 23-disc box set: The Isley Brothers: The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters (1959-1983). ![]()
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