Just read this article. Comes with an mp3 file of a short clip of a singer crooning "Au Claire de lune"... and the recording is believed to be from... 1860!!! Predates Edison's invention by like 20 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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