james brooks's List: OAA Timeline Assignment

Pandora Media and launched Pandora Radio on July 21, 2005.^[17] The Music Genome Project is one of core technologies currently used by Pandora to play music for Internet users based on their preferences.Today, there are over 35 million listeners, and the radio has become an app for many smartphones, including the iPhone, Android, and Windows phones.^[18]

In April 2013 Pandora announced that their radio streaming service had passed 200 million users, about 70 million of whom are active monthly.^[19]

Reel to Reel recorders have a long history having originally been invented in Germany in the 1920's, the format used today is based on the format conceived by German companies Telefunken and BASF in 1934. Although most R2R recorders are analogue there exist digital recorders as well, electromechanically the only difference between the digital recorders and the analogue ones can lie in the heads, ordinary tape heads are fine sandwiches of magnets but the heads on digital recorders are sometimes lithographed. The processing electronics are very different between those 2 types obviously.

 Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album had a release date of November 30, 1982, but it officially came out in 1983. As of 2009, it is still the best-selling album in music history. 

 The single "Thriller" was released in the UK in November, 1983 and the music video on December 2, 1983. US release of the single was in January, 1984.

The song was released as a 45rpm single on September 24, 1957, to coincide with the release of Presley's motion picture, Jailhouse Rock.

The song as sung by Elvis Presley is #67 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time^[1] and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

It was 50 years ago today….a Beatles album came out in the U.K. That would be the Fab Four’s debut album, “Please Please Me,” released March 22, 1963.

Are You Experienced is the debut album by English/American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, it was the first LP for Track Records. The album highlighted Hendrix's R&B-based, psychedelic, distortion-and feedback-laden electric guitar playing and launched him as a major new international star.

My Girl" is a 1964 song recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label which became a number one hit in 1965. Written and produced by The Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, the song became the Temptations' first U.S. number-one single, and is today their signature song. Robinson's inspiration for writing this song was his wife, Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson. The song was featured on the Temptations album The Temptations Sing Smokey.

Hip hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue as the starting point for Hip-Hop and rap music worldwide. It's where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the basement community room. Beginning with the advent of beat match DJing, in which Bronx DJs including Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc extended the breaks of funk records, a major new musical genre emerged that sought to isolate the percussion breaks of hit funk, disco and soul songs.

As hip hop's popularity grew, performers began speaking ("rapping") in sync with the beats, and became known as MCs or emcees. The Herculoids, made up of Herc, Coke La Rock, and Clark Kent, were the earliest to gain major fame. The Bronx is referred to in hip-hop slang as "The Boogie Down Bronx", or just "The Boogie Down". This was hip-hop pioneer KRS-One's inspiration for his thought provoking group BDP, or Boogie Down Productions, which included DJ Scott La Rock.