Truth is stranger than fiction, as they say, and this story is a perfect case in point. Earlier this year, an ISRI coworker--Anne Marie Horvath--waltzed into my office holding an old vinyl album with the intriguing title The Sounds of the Junk Yard. She had found that gem on sale at a Washington, B.C., library and picked it up for 1 dollar. The album, it turns out, was made by Folkways Records & Service Corp., an innovative firm that sought "to document the entire world of sound." From 1948 to 1986, the company released 2,168 albums encompassing music, poetry, spoken word, instruction, individuals, communities, current events, and natural sounds--including sounds of the scrapyard.
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机译：正如他们所说，真理比小说更陌生，而这个故事就是一个很好的例子。今年早些时候，一位ISRI的同事安妮·玛丽·霍瓦斯（Anne Marie Horvath）走进了我的办公室，手里拿着一张老黑胶唱片，上面有个有趣的标题：《垃圾场》。她在华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的一家图书馆发现了这颗宝石，并以1美元的价格将其买下。事实证明，该专辑是由创新公司Folkways Records＆Service Corp.制作的，该公司寻求“记录整个声音世界”。从1948年到1986年，该公司发行了2168张专辑，涵盖音乐，诗歌，口语，教学，个人，社区，时事和自然声音-包括废品场的声音。
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