A producer I work with—who’s a big Grateful Dead fan—asked me if I had ever heard about Betty Boards, some of the most iconic recordings to Deadheads. I’d heard of the Grateful Dead, of course. But I didn’t … Read More
I dove into everything I could find on Marion. In retrospect, I was lucky that she was my first real “case study” on women in the audio industry. Marion’s name an appeared in books, articles, and even discussions on Elvis fan sites.
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When I first started looking for the earliest women in sound recording history, I really didn’t think I would find anyone prior to 1950. If the culture of recording studios wasn’t welcoming of women in … Read More
I recently connected with a couple who are also looking at early women in recording history and I learned of two women I hadn’t come across before: Ursula Greville and Gloria Chandler. Ursula Greville Leslie … Read More
Timeline of Female Engineers Timeline of Female Producers Timeline of Female-Owned Record Labels Miscellaneous History Female Engineers 1895 – Ethnomusicologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher recorded the music of Native American tribes in addition to her study … Read More
After researching Marion Keisker last year, I became really interested in learning more about early women in audio. How many were there? What roles did they have in recordings? How early were women recording? I … Read More
A microphone company recently posed the question to the audience, ” Should microphones have ‘male’ and ‘female’ settings? There are many reasons male and female settings don’t exist… and shouldn’t exist. The most obvious reason … Read More
In 2018, I researched Marion Keisker, a woman known for helping Elvis Presley early in his career while she worked at Sun Records/Memphis Recording Service. Marion is sometimes credited for recording Elvis for the first … Read More