Charles B. GREGORY

PIONEER

Charles B. GREGORY

nationality
occupation

birth	.... 1880, ........., USA
baptism
death	25 Jan 1946, Hendon, Middlesex (64y) (see footnote in Fred Gaisberg's Music on Record, p. 261) (GRO/D 3a 812)
burial

PARENTS

father
mother
children

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According to Fred Gaisberg Charles Gregory joined him at Columbia November 1893, Washington DC (source: unpublished typescript article, entitled 'Charlie Gregory's fifty years of talking machine', by Fred Gaisberg.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)

COMPANIES & LABELS

COLUMBIA (UK)

PHOTOS

THANK YOU

Dave Mason
George Brock-Nannestad