It's
scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded
blooper.
The modern
masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of
an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance, thanks
to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy
tinfoil to computer.
The
recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St.
Louis in 1878.