Electrical recording and microphones were introduced in 1925, so Marion Harris is of the old school, where you had to project your voice to the back row, and sing loudly into a megaphone to be recorded via a mica diaphragm vibrating a needle into a wax disc. Big changes were ahead for performers. The dividing line was a century ago. It is hard to believe, because I still play my acoustic discs on the phonographs.
The Comedian Harmonists recorded Tea For Two in 1934, and you can tell that artists were adapting to the new technology.
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