I just wrote a neat piece for Science News magazine online on the coming of age of the phonograph and the first sound bites recorded by candidates running for the White House, exactly 100 years ago in 1908. William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft recorded their voices
Point is, were the voices recorded and sold ACTUALLY Bryan and Taft...?! The "recording industry" of that era often offered...or CLAIMED to...various "noted orators" and their speeches! However, most of these were actually recorded by standard recording artists, like Len Spencer...!