[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1469451224' post='3098357']
Often, in the old days, the composer would have written out the dots above the lyricist's words. No recording, unless we are going to call the dots a recording method which, of course, it was.
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If you make some method of returning to something it's a record, the black circular thing came much later than the word didn't it?