Maybe you are remembering Dr. Lintgen? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-record-reader/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-record-reader/ "Dr. Arthur L

Maybe you are remembering Dr. Lintgen? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-record-reader/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-record-reader/ "Dr. Arthur Lintgen, a Philadelphia physician, can — within prescribed limits — determine which works of classical music are present on a phonograph record by “reading” the record’s grooves. His ability is not the result of any trickery — he performs the feat by combining a thorough knowledge of classical music with the technique of determining the structure and dynamics of a piece of music by examining the spacing and pattern of the grooves."