This is the web site where you can hear the earliest recorded sound (and song). This is 1860, twenty years before Edison -- reconstituted from a kind of mapping of sound.   There was some press about it in 2008 -- "Au Clair de La Lune" is the first song, just a single line fragment. The original re-release was too fast, and the most recent re-release has slowed it down somewhat:


http://firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php


yours,

Peter T.