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johnfowles · 08-14-2010, 09:53 AM

OK hrmmph i guess the PBS website's search is as poorly organised as corfid's becsuse a further google this morning for "soundtrack of our lives" afrer searching within the 289,000 results for "PBS" which weeds out a lot of results pertaining to a stoopid punk band from Sweden,one result reveals that the series has been put back a year
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/o/...OUR-LIVES.aspx
Coming to PBS in Fall 2011
ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is an eight-hour series that traces the history of recorded music and its impact on popular culture. Featuring hundreds of artists from all genres of music, ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is slated to air nationally as a primetime series in the Fall of 2011 on PBS. Sir George Martin, legendary producer of the Beatles, will host. Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey will narrate.
and handily provides two contacts
Alisse Kingsley
Muse Media
323-467-8508
alissethemuse@aol/com
Carrie Johnson
PBS
703-739-5129
cjohnson@pbs/orga
another result is at
http://pressroom.pbs.org/Search.aspx...ram&sort=score
ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
Program
Coming to PBS in Fall 2011 ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is an eight-hour series that traces the history of recorded
also a webpage by the producers
http://www.wildheartgroup.com/onRecord.asp
which reports:-
On December 7, 1877, the world of music changed forever – and with it human history.
Standing in his kitchen laboratory in a small New Jersey town, Thomas Edison had no idea that he had just ignited the most powerful, the most pervasive mass medium of the twentieth century; one that would change forever the way we live, think, work and play.
On that fateful day, with the invention of a quirky little tin-foil contraption to record sound, a revolution was born. Not since Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, has a single invention so completely transformed western civilization.
Today, we cannot imagine what our world would be like without recorded music. It is the invention that spawned radio, movies, television, the digital age, computers and the internet.
On Record is a television series that tells the story about the impact of recorded music for the first time; how the world’s most universal mass entertainment medium gave birth to popular culture; how music became immortal.
Told as a narrative tapestry, weaving the words of today’s living legends together with the memorable musical moments, the landmark cultural events, the inspiring inventions and innovations, the extraordinary creative genius of yesterday and today; the wow moments.
On Record illustrates how, in little more than a century, recording technology has moved from the first wax cylinders to digital downloads. And how these extraordinary changes have come to re-define, not only music, but who we are.
It is the story of the twentieth century. On Record, The Soundtrack of our Lives
The "small New jersey town" was Menlo Park a township since renamed Edison in his hono(U)r but the name lives on as the name of a large shopping center nearby a few miles south of me now in Roselle NJ
on
http://www.boroughofroselle.com/history.htm
is this note on Roselle's claim to fame:-
Roselle was the first village in the world to be lighted by Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb. Set up as an experiment to prove that a town could be lighted by electricity from a single generating station, the generator was started on January 19, 1883. From its location on the north-east corner of Locust Street and West First Avenue it sent power through overhead wires to a store, railroad station, about forty houses, and one-hundred-fifty street lights. In April of that year the First Presbyterian Church of Roselle became the first church in the world to be so lighted when the thirty-bulb "electrolier" was installed within it. Although damaged by fire in 1949, the electrolier was salvaged, restored and re-hung in the church where it can be seen today. The steam-driven generator which stood on the corner of Locust and West First Avenue no longer exists, but the people of the town operated it for nearly ten years after Edison went on to other things, and bigger generating stations took over the task of lighting much larger areas

Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879

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johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Re: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Sir George Martin OK hrmmph i guess the PBS website's search is as poorly organised as corfid's becsuse a further google this morning for "soundtrack of our lives" afrer searching within the 289,000 results for "PBS" which weeds out a lot of results pertaining to a stoopid punk band from Sweden,one result reveals that the series has been put back a year http://pressroom.pbs.org/Programs/o/...OUR-LIVES.aspx Coming to PBS in Fall 2011 ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is an eight-hour series that traces the history of recorded music and its impact on popular culture. Featuring hundreds of artists from all genres of music, ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is slated to air nationally as a primetime series in the Fall of 2011 on PBS. Sir George Martin, legendary producer of the Beatles, will host. Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey will narrate. and handily provides two contacts Alisse Kingsley Muse Media 323-467-8508 alissethemuse@aol/com Carrie Johnson PBS 703-739-5129 cjohnson@pbs/orga another result is at http://pressroom.pbs.org/Search.aspx...ram&sort=score ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES Program Coming to PBS in Fall 2011 ON RECORD: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is an eight-hour series that traces the history of recorded also a webpage by the producers http://www.wildheartgroup.com/onRecord.asp which reports:- On December 7, 1877, the world of music changed forever – and with it human history. Standing in his kitchen laboratory in a small New Jersey town, Thomas Edison had no idea that he had just ignited the most powerful, the most pervasive mass medium of the twentieth century; one that would change forever the way we live, think, work and play. On that fateful day, with the invention of a quirky little tin-foil contraption to record sound, a revolution was born. Not since Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, has a single invention so completely transformed western civilization. Today, we cannot imagine what our world would be like without recorded music. It is the invention that spawned radio, movies, television, the digital age, computers and the internet. On Record is a television series that tells the story about the impact of recorded music for the first time; how the world’s most universal mass entertainment medium gave birth to popular culture; how music became immortal. Told as a narrative tapestry, weaving the words of today’s living legends together with the memorable musical moments, the landmark cultural events, the inspiring inventions and innovations, the extraordinary creative genius of yesterday and today; the wow moments. On Record illustrates how, in little more than a century, recording technology has moved from the first wax cylinders to digital downloads. And how these extraordinary changes have come to re-define, not only music, but who we are. It is the story of the twentieth century. On Record, The Soundtrack of our Lives The "small New jersey town" was Menlo Park a township since renamed Edison in his hono(U)r but the name lives on as the name of a large shopping center nearby a few miles south of me now in Roselle NJ on http://www.boroughofroselle.com/history.htm is this note on Roselle's claim to fame:- Roselle was the first village in the world to be lighted by Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb. Set up as an experiment to prove that a town could be lighted by electricity from a single generating station, the generator was started on January 19, 1883. From its location on the north-east corner of Locust Street and West First Avenue it sent power through overhead wires to a store, railroad station, about forty houses, and one-hundred-fifty street lights. In April of that year the First Presbyterian Church of Roselle became the first church in the world to be so lighted when the thirty-bulb "electrolier" was installed within it. Although damaged by fire in 1949, the electrolier was salvaged, restored and re-hung in the church where it can be seen today. The steam-driven generator which stood on the corner of Locust and West First Avenue no longer exists, but the people of the town operated it for nearly ten years after Edison went on to other things, and bigger generating stations took over the task of lighting much larger areas Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879 Last edited by johnfowles; 08-14-2010 at 11:30 AM.