The FIRST song ever recorded

Well, how did we get here?

It all started with the first known song to ever be recorded on a sound recording device - the phonautograph.

On the 9th of April, 1860, 28 years before Edisons phonographic recording of a Handel chorus from the oratorio "Israel in Egypt", Mr. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville unleashed the below monstrosity of what was possibly his own voice, performing the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune".



Initially it was believed this was the inventors own daughter singing, before experts discovered that the recording was played at twice normal speed and was probably monsieur Scott de Martinville own voice.

Yes, its creepy...But it was a start...