ABSTRACT
British recording expert, known as Johnnie Johnston. He worked with Colonel George E. Gouraud’s Edison Phonograph Co. in London, then with Edison Bell, Clarion, Pathé, and Marathon records. He recorded various notable persons for Gouraud, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Florence Nightingale, and explorer Henry M. Stanley. He was with the Orchestrelle Co., Ltd., in London in 1917. During 1918 he was in New York, working in the recording laboratory of the Aeolian Co. Johnston was the recording expert for Chicago’s Rodeheaver Record Co. in 1921, and in 1922 he was director of recording and then vice president of Bell Recording Laboratories.
