Guess The Genre #3441 (Gathered by Ken Anderson)

WorldOfStomuYamashTa
January 11, 1971 - world's first made
commercial digital recording
The World Of Stomu Yamash'ta		 SteveMarcusJiroInagakiSomething
February 1972 - world's first released
commercial digital recording
Something by Steve Marcus & Jiro Inagaki
SantaFeOperaMotherOfUsAll
1976 - the first U.S. digital recording
The Mother of Us All by the Santa Fe Opera		 ArchieSheppOnGreenDolphinStreet
November 28, 1977 - first U.S.-released
digitally recorded commercial album
Archie Shepp - On Green Dolphin Street
ClevelandSymphonicWindsHandelRoyalFireworks
April 5, 1978 - first U.S.-recorded digital
classical release
Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks /
Frederick Fennell Cleveland Symph. Winds		 StPaulChamberOrchestraAppalachianSpring
June 2, 1978 - first digital recording to win
a Grammy (1980)
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring /
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - Davies
RyCooderBopTillYouDrop
July 11, 1979 - first U.S.-recorded digitally
recorded LP of popular music (with vocals)
Bop Till You Drop - Ry Cooder		 ChristopherCross2
December 1, 1979 - first digitally recorded
album to chart
Christopher Cross
ClaudioArrauChopinWaltzes
August 17, 1982: - first classical Compact
Disc ever commercially manufactured
Claudio Arrau / Frederic Chopin waltzes
(Philips 400 025)		 ABBATheVisitors
August 17, 1982 - first popular Compact
Disc ever manufactured
ABBA - The Visitors
BillyJoel52ndStreet
October 1, 1982 - first CD to hit the market
in Japan
Billy Joel - 52nd Street		 Flim&TheBBsTricycle
Early 1983 - first non-classical fully-digital
CD released
Flim & the BB's - Tricycle

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