8 to the Bar 8 to the Bar 8 to the Bar is a studio album released by Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons in 1941 on Victor 78rpm set P-69, record numbers 27504 through 27507. It was recorded in two sessions, May 7 and June 17, 1941. It was reissued by RCA Victor in 1952 as a 10-inch LP record as LPT-9. In the United Kingdom, this LP was released by the Gramophone Company as HMV DLP 1011. It was also released as a set of four 45rpm discs, WPT-14. The album peaked at number 2, in 1945, on Billboard's album chart. All titles
Gramophone (magazine) classical record industry. The first 50 were revealed in the May 2012 issue and on "Gramophone"’s website, and each year will see another intake of honorees into the Hall of Fame. Glenn Gould wrote a parody review in the style of "Gramophone" for the liner notes to his 1968 recording of Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" transcribed for solo piano by Liszt. The review, which purports to be from "the English magazine "The Phonograph"" includes this passage: Unusual recordings of the Beethoven Fifth are, of course, no novelty to the British collector. One calls to mind that elegiac statement Sir Joshua committed