12 Mind-Blowing Music Facts You Never Knew
5. Au Clair De La Lune Was The First Song Ever Recorded
In 1860, having spent the preceding years working on competent recording apparatus, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded a section of the French folk song Au Clair De La Lune.
Scott designed a phonautograph, a device not dissimilar to a phonograph, which converted sounds into 'recorded' sound waves - images of sound on paper which bear some resemblance to the medium and markings made by a polygraph (lie detector machine). Whichever way you cut it, graphs were a crucial part of music long before Nickelback arrived on the scene.
The first recorded song which could also be played back was actually Mary Had A Little Lamb, on Thomas Edison's wax cylinder. But who needs audible sound, right? It's only music.