Category: Vintage Collection

Happy New Year – Discover Staff Favorites from 2020

By , January 14, 2021 4:04 pm

Discover Staff Favorites from 2020!

Happy 5th Anniversary Fallout 4! – Lets Talk Vintage Music!

By , November 10, 2020 11:27 pm
Promotional graphic with old 78 rpm record labels and bold text ‘Happy 5th Anniversary Fallout 4’ and ‘Discover the Collection.

Happy 5th Anniversary Fallout 4! Did you know that the whole Fallout video game franchise features vintage music from the early 1930s-50s?

This year in celebration of Fallout 4’s 5th anniversary we created this collection highlighting original recordings that can be heard throughout the Fallout 4 video game series. Read More About This…

Lola Flores Coloring Page – Celebrate Hispanic Heritage through Music and Portraits

By , October 16, 2020 12:35 am
Illustration of Lola Flores’s face with text ‘Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month – Drawing Lola Flores’ in a graphic.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Recorded Sound Archives is exploring music through portraits.  This week discover and learn more about Spanish singer, actress, dancer and business woman Lola Flores in the video below.

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Join Ben Roth-Aroni as he shares some new and old tunes on his player piano

By , September 14, 2020 5:35 pm

Do you think player pianos are a thing of the past? Join Ben Roth-Aroni as he shares some new and old tunes on his player piano at home during National Piano month!

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RSA Staff’s Favorite Eddy Duchin Songs!

By , August 17, 2020 8:04 pm
Graphic with text promoting a Recorded Sound Archives feature on Eddy Duchin, showing his name and vintage piano imagery

Here at the Recorded Sound Archives, we listen to A LOT of music, while digitizing and scanning recordings for research.

With the library being closed, we’ve had to get a little creative in how our department works since we’re so dependent on the physical recordings. So we’ve been working hard behind the scenes doing quality control on recordings and meta data since we haven’t been recording as much these days. Read More About This…