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From “Zachavis“…

Obscure music that isn’t on the internet elsewhere. Digitizing, archiving, researching, and sharing interesting music to keep these songs and artists from being forgotten. I don’t own the rights to any of these songs; I only take credit for finding the records, doing the research, and uploading the audio.

I include any biographical information I find in the video descriptions. Most of the information I include is compiled from various sources on the internet, but in many cases these artists are little-known and it is difficult to find information about their lives and music careers…

Over 400 records, available for audio stream at the Internet Archive or on YouTube: The Vinyl Archive.

* Friedrich Nietzsche

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As we hum along we might recall that it was on this date in 1955 that Sam Phillips— founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf— launched WHER, the first “all-girl” radio station in the world, in Memphis, TN. Each of the young women who auditioned for the station assumed there would only be one position for a female announcer like many other stations at that time. It wasn’t until a few days before the first broadcast that they learned of the “All Girl Radio” format and that almost every position at the station was held by a woman, including sales staff, management, record librarians, copy writers. Phillips had used a portion of the $35,000 he made from the sale of Elvis Presley’s recording contract to RCA Records to finance the station; additional funding came from Holiday Inn founder Kemmons Wilson, who also provided the station’s first home, in the third Holiday Inn ever built.

The Kitchen Sisters tell the tale: “WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts, The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation.”

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