On February 25, 1925, Art Gillham made history as he recorded the first commercial electrical recording using a microphone at the Columbia Phonograph Company in New York City. This innovation marked a pivotal transition in the music industry, as artists began to adapt their techniques to leverage the technology of the microphone. Despite its significance, no memorial exists at the location, now the site of the Rose Theater. Sound engineer Todd Whitelock emphasizes that the microphone's introduction was the most crucial advancement in recorded music, surpassing prior acoustic methods.
By the end of the year, a writer for the Washington, D.C. newspaper the Evening Star marveled at the capitulation of the world's leading musical artists to the power of the microphone.
Todd Whitelock called the advent of the microphone the most important technological development in recorded music. It's got to be the top of the pyramid.
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