Phonographic memory

[PussyCat]

[someone] who remembers [everything] they [hear]

[Dave Paprocki]

A person blessed with a Phonographic Memory has the ability to instantly recall and name the origin of sounds, chords, bass lines, drum fills, and guitar licks from the records he/she/they heard in their youth. Everybody recognizes the opening licks of Satisfaction, but a person with Phonographic Memory ...can name that song in one note.
It is not the hearing of a train whistle and being reminded of the long summer evenings in Iowa. It is not recognizing a song being played faintly in the background of a Budweiser commercial. It is directly related to the graphic recording ( [the LP] or 45 [rpm] record, quite likely ) of those particular notes, and a [instantaneous] and pinpoint recognition of the song. Phonographic Memory (PM) is like muscle memory, as it is developed by [repetition].

[Julian]

For those too young to remember, music used to be distributed on vinyl records (commonly known as a [phonograph] record). These records were played using a needle that would pick up the inscribed [spiral] grooves in the [disk] and, with the use of an [amplifier], emit from a set of speakers.
Inevitably these records would get a scratch in them causing the record to skip a groove. The result was that a few milliseconds of the song would be missed. As audio tradition would have it, the listener would end up memorizing the song and lyric precisely as it was played back...skip and all. This is referred to as phonographic memory.