📚 Sound Recordings

Captured and replayed: from wax cylinders to digital files, and the industry built around the take.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sound recordings in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chaos	James Gleick	1987	37
	How Music Got Free	Stephen Witt	2015	10
	Record label marketing	Amy Macy	2005	9
	Mixing secrets for the small studio	Mike Senior	2011	9
	The art of record production	Simon Frith	2012	9
	1001 albums you must hear before you die	Robert Dimery	1769	8
	The Penguin guide to jazz on CD, LP, and cassette	Richard Cook	1992	8
	All Music Guide to Country	Hal Leonard Corp.	1997	8
	Christgau's record guide	Robert Christgau	1981	7
	The Billboard book of number one hits	Fred Bronson	1985	7
	The recording angel	Evan Eisenberg	1986	7
	The Routledge guide to music technology	Thom Holmes	2006	7
	Godfather of the Music Business	Richard Carlin	2016	6
	Mixing with Impact	Wessel Oltheten	2018	6
	Major Label Mastering	Evren Göknar	2020	6
	Bootleg	Clinton Heylin	1995	5
	All music guide to Electronica	Michael Erlewine	1999	5
	Goldmine Record Album Price Guide	Tim Neely	1999	5
	All Music Guide	Vladimir Bogdanov	2001	5
	How to DJ (properly)	Frank Broughton	2002	5
	Howling at the Moon	Walter Yetnikoff	2004	5
	The music producer's handbook	Bobby Owsinski	2010	5
	Marketing Recorded Music	Amy Macy	2022	5
	The Penguin stereo record guide	Edward Greenfield	1975	4
	The Art of Recording	William Moylan	1991	4
	1000 Record Covers	Michael Ochs	1996	4
	Console confessions	Anthony Savona	2005	4
	Vinyl	Richard Osborne	2014	4
	The art of music production	Richard James Burgess	2002	3
	The Mojo collection	Jim Irvin	2003	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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