born: .... 1880, ........., USA
died: 25 Jan 1946, Hendon, Middlesex (64y) (see footnote in Fred Gaisberg's Music on Record, p. 261) (GRO/D 3a 812)
PARENTS:
LIFE:
Began working for the Columbia Phonograph Company in 1894.
According to Fred Gaisberg Charles Gregory joined him at Columbia November 1893, Washington DC (source: unpublished typescript article, entitled 'Charlie Gregory's fifty years of talking machine', by Fred Gaisberg.
In 1899 he went to Europe in connection with Columbia's first European recordings (see: EMI book, p. 92-93/95/102/120/129).
In 1900 he arrived in London.
Charles Gregory died on 25 Jan 1946, ........... (source: footnote on p. 261 of Fred Gaisberg's Music on Record) and "A Gramophone Pioneer Passes: An Appreciation of Charles B. Gregory" by Herbert C. Ridout (The Gramophone of March 1946, p. 19)
NOTES:
100 years EMI by Peter Martland (the website picture of Gregory comes from this book)
Music on Record by Fred Gaisberg
A Voice in Time by Jerrold Northrop Moore (pp. 13, note 1; 215, 217-218, 221)
On p. 13, note 1 it says: Typescript article, 'Charlie Gregory's fifty years of talking machine', by Fred Gaisberg [Who has this article? - HS]
series of articles entitled "Behind the Needle" by Herbert C. Ridout (in: The Gramophone (1941-1943))
Fifty Years in Recording (The Gramophone of December 1944, p. 16)
"A Gramophone Pioneer Passes: An Appreciation of Charles B. Gregory" by Herbert C. Ridout (The Gramophone of March 1946, p. 19)
