That really was in the very old days, before electric recording arrived in the mid-twenties.
Leonard Bernstein made an electric recording of the score with the New York Philharmonic in 1958, which has just been reissued by Sony, with the original cover art.
Telephone transmissions by radio waves, the electric recording and reproduction of sound, and television were made possible by the development of the triode tube.
You put one of these sneery, sweet, hyperactive, electric records on as a force field to ward off the dead, grey creep of the everyday, to remind you what a good time sounds like.
Then he went electric, recording (uncredited) with Miles Davis on "Bitches Brew," with the drummer Tony Williams and the guitarist John McLaughlin in the hard-edged jazz-rock band Lifetime, with McLaughlin on "Devotion," and with McLaughlin and Carlos Santana on "Love Devotion Surrender".
Date of birth and gender were routinely recorded and verified on the SLAM electronic patient electric records in designated fields.
Self-completed SDQs were found on electric records in 50% of cases (30/60) and on paper in 42 (37%) of cases.
In the patch-clamp experiment, one probe coated with CdSe QDs was placed on the cell for light excitation while another one, without QDs, was used for electric recording.
Although cheap and durable vinyl had yet to replace shellac as the recording industry's medium of choice, and all-electric record players had only recently superseded acoustic ones, Harrison confidently assured his readers that they were on the cusp of a new, "high-fidelity" era.
It was one of the first electric recordings (older records were made by the acoustic process), and one of the first made in a church, not a studio.
