"I remember the moment I got interested in music. I was 10 years old, sitting in a friend’s attic in our eastside Dayton neighborhood. His teenage brother played a 45 rpm single of Elvis Presley singing “(You Ain’t Nothin’ But a) Hound Dog” on a portable record player, and I was hooked. I felt guilty at the time, recalling that a few years earlier my mom had boycotted the “Ed Sullivan Show” when Elvis made his first appearanc there. I had no idea who Elvis Presley was. I was 7. But in 1956, rock and roll was scary for many parents.In a way, of course, all this goes back to Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph 80 years earlier. Back then, he thought he was inventing a playback dictaphone machine, which would make life easier for clerks taking notation from bosses. He had no idea that his invention would spawn a multi-billion dollar global music business...."
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Richard Campbell, Professor emeritus and founding chair of the Department of Media, Journalism & Film at at Oxford Ohio, writing as a guest columnist the Dayton Daily News' March 23, 2025 edition, in an article entitled " The sound of music … Edison to Elvis"
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Elvis Presley
film actor, singer, composer
1935 – 1977 · United States
(8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
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