gramophone record

He called Alfred Hugenberg, a key political opponent, a “woof-woof,” and President Hindenburg a “gramophone record” who kept repeating himself.

"It was absolutely incredible - other than playing a gramophone record you couldn't hear music or speech from elsewhere."

Luckily, the aluminum core of the gramophone record “acts as a heat sink if the record catches fire,” one archiving expert says.

Take, for example, Les Baxter’s 1947 gramophone record Music Out of the Moon, which arranged lunar themes for the theremin and a lounge jazz ensemble.

"Nothing, sir. We got orders—by letter again—to prepare the rooms for a house party, and then yesterday by the afternoon post I got another letter from Mr. Owen. It said he and Mrs. Owen were detained and to do the best we could, and it gave the instructions about dinner and coffee and putting on the gramophone record."