1.   Eventually, his partner takes over and adds his own flourishes, like scratching the record with one hand behind his back.

2.   GrandWizzard Theodore, from the South Bronx, is credited as the first to scratch a record by moving it back and forth.

3.   He scratched records, and sometimes just the needle itself, to make chirrups, whistles, shivers, whooshes, scrapes and hard-rock chords.

4.   Rap artists and DJs are steady vinyl customers, scratching records and sampling from classic songs in their music.

5.   She scratched the record with the Thunders song on it back and forth noisily, and then let her vocals flow.

6.   The disk jockeys were disrupted by repeated loss of power as they competed in scratching records to sound like wordless rapping and like pinpoint percussion cross-rhythms.