Reminiscences of Joe Higgins : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Recording industry executive.

Scope and Contents

Technical aspects of early recording; description of typical work day of 1920s; changes in the recording industry with the advent of new machines, the Depression, more advanced radios, changes in the public's taste; personal reaction to rock and roll; description of 1920s record marketing and older equipment; working with recording Feodor Chaliapin and Frank Sinatra.

Subjects

• Executives--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Higgins, Joe, 1889-
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Sound recording industry.

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