January 2026 Speaker:
January 2026 Guest Speaker: John Lehman
Topic: “The History of American Music – Part 2”
John Lehman is a pioneer and serial entrepreneur in search software and technology. He began his musicology hobby-career in 1960 when he received a 1951 jukebox for his birthday which came with 100 records. Since 1960 he has turned that hobby into a collection of 600,000 records (78s, 45s, 33s), and four million digital songs, one of the world’s largest private song collections. It includes every song of every genre which reached any published popularity, covering 1890 to the present.
John previously presented to SIR Branch 35 in 2023. This presentation picks up where he left off, beginning with the 1960’s and going through the 2000’s. It consists of song clips and song/performer descriptions.
by Scott Hiller