According to a BBC news article, the oldest computer-generated digital music recording has been discovered dating back to 1951. This analog recording which has now been digitized and uploaded onto the Internet features the United Kingdom's national anthem, a rendition of 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' and a snippet of 'In the Mood'.

The digital music was generated on a room-busting Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the university of Manchester in 1951 and recorded by the BBC. In an interview with BBC news, Paul Doornbusch who is a computer music composer and historian said, "I think it's historically significant. As far as I know it's the earliest recording of a computer playing music in the world, probably by quite a wide margin." Mr. Doornbusch added that until now, the oldest know digital music recording was created in 1957 by Bell Laboratories in the United States using an IBM mainframe computer.

To hear the 57 year-old recording, read this BBC news article. Isn't it amazing how far we have come in such a short space of time?