#MusicMonday: Music Streaming & All Access in 2021

#MusicMonday and music streaming: a web-based service that lets users stream songs to their computers or mobile devices. It's 2021 and you can have it all; record players and vinyl, cassette tapes and CDs, a walkman and an iPod or some other type of MP3/PMP player, headphones or not... all access listening to diverse and eclectic music or your favorite songs cycled on repeat... play on!

• Amazon Music
• Apple Music
• Deezer
• iHeartRadio
• Pandora
• SoundCloud
• Spotify
• TIDAL
• YouTube Music

Catch up on the history leading up to music streaming in 2021.

• #MusicMonday: Phonograph 1870's
• #MusicMonday: Graphophone & Gramophone 1880's
• #MusicMonday: Berliner & National Gramophone Companies 1890's
• #MusicMonday: Developing Records Late 1890's - Early 1900's
• #MusicMonday: Shellac, RCA & EMI - Early 1900's Continued
• #MusicMonday: Vinyl, Record Company Growth - Mid 1900's
• #MusicMonday: How Vinyl Records Are Made
• #MusicMonday - American Independent Record Labels
• #MusicMonday: Cassette Tapes & Walkman - 1960's & 1970's
• #MusicMonday: Compact Discs (CDs) - 1980's
• #MusicMonday: Digital Music & MP3 Players - 1990's
• #MusicMonday: Portable Media Players (PMP) - 2000's

#MusicMonday - American Independent Record Labels

#MusicMonday is dedicated to American independent record labels emerging in the mid-1900's, introducing jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, gospel, early rock and roll artists.

• Atlantic Records (New York): Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Otis Redding.
• Chess / Aristocrat / Checker Records (Chicago): Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire
• King Records (Cincinnati): Etta Jones, James Brown, Freddie King
• Speciality Records (Los Angeles): Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Percy Mayfield
• Sun Records (Memphis): Elvis Presley, Ray Orbison, Johnny Cash

#MusicMonday: How Vinyl Records Are Made

#MusicMonday is a dedicated flash forward to how vinyl records are currently made. Check out the videos below! 

• Discogs Blog
• How Stuff Is Made | Refinery29
• Insider

Follow along on the history leading up to the continued popularity of vinyl records.

• #MusicMonday: Phonograph 1870's
• #MusicMonday: Graphophone & Gramophone 1880's
• #MusicMonday: Berliner & National Gramophone Companies 1890's
• #MusicMonday: Developing Records Late 1890's - Early 1900's
• #MusicMonday: Shellac, RCA & EMI - Early 1900's Continued
• #MusicMonday: Vinyl, Record Company Growth - Mid 1900's

#MusicMonday: Vinyl, Record Company Growth - Mid 1900's

#MusicMonday is dedicated to records officially transitioning from shellac 78s to vinyl 33s (long play or LPs) and 45s (extended play or EPs), with the continued growth of Columbia, EMI, and RCA record companies.

• American Record Company (ARC) / Columbia / Decca / Epic / CBS
• EMI / Capitol / Universal Music Group
• RCA Victor

#MusicMonday: Shellac, RCA & EMI - Early 1900's Continued

#MusicMonday is dedicated to the phonograph disc record, also called a gramophone disc record, disc record, or record originally made from shellac and the continued development of record companies in the early 1900's, with Victor Company officially transitioning to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). 

#MusicMonday: Developing Records Late 1890's - Early 1900's

#MusicMonday is dedicated to the companies in the late 1890's to early 1900's who developed new ways to mass produce cylinders by adjusting sizes and materials to create records that could be widely distributed to further advance the growth of the recording industry.

• Columbia Phonograph Company
• North American Phonograph Company & National Phonograph Company
• Edison Gold-Moulded Cylinders
• Edison Amberol Cylinders
• Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Red Seal, Monarch and De Luxe

Edison "Blue Amberol" cylinder record posted by Jason Curtis (2017) with update by Slyadam (2018).

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#MusicMonday: Berliner & National Gramophone Companies 1890's

#MusicMonday is dedicated to disc albums, also called records and the birth of the recording industry.

"The recorded sound-component of the Berliner Collection consists of several hundred disc albums produced by the Berliner Gramophone Company. These records represent one of the first successful attempts to mass-market and commercially distribute popular sound recordings. All the Berliner discs were produced from the mid-1890s to 1900."

"François Barraud (in his studio, painting Nipper - 'His Master's Voice' - 1899)" posted by Cea. 
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