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Frank Crumit records I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Ben Selvin And His Orchestra record A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich And You and Poor Little Rich Girl, for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA.
EMI holds the first of its many recording sessions at Kingsway Hall, London, UK, using electrical equipment obtained from the American Western Electric company, to whom they paid a royalty on each disc sold as a result.
Radio station WOS, located beneath the Capitol Building in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, holds its first fiddling contest, which is broadcast live. 82 fiddlers from 27 counties compete in a broadcast that lasts 'well into the morning of New Year's Day, 1926.' Listeners are encouraged to vote by sending letters, telegrams and postcards, and by making telephone calls to the station, and more 5,500 do so. Two weeks later, it is announced that the winner had been Thomas Jasper Massie of Nevada.