MP3 of the Day
On this Day in 1950 RCA Victor announced it would start manufacturing long-playing (LP) records. One side of a 12-inch LP would now play for 23 minutes, compared with four minutes for one side of a standard 78 rpm record. Some record companies resisted the LP, and it took several years for the standard to become universally accepted. Today we have Hold Onto Your Breath by SIMON JOYNER.
posted by Sean at 9:46 AM
3 Comments:
You left out the exciting part! RCA Victor's announcement was actually an admission of defeat, as Columbia had introduced the LP two years earlier, while RCA had countered with the 7-inch, 45 rpm single as their microgroove competitor. The idea was that "albums" would continue to be multi-disc sets of short records, as with 78s. Columbia won, in the album sweepstakes at least, and RCA caved and started making LPs. 45s continued as a medium for singles, propelled mostly by jukeboxes, and even 78s carried on limpingly in the jukebox market until about 1960. But albums have been LPs until the present day (because compact discs and MP3s don't exist).
And even more... this just in from the indie-pop list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYf4u-oEqhI
How & Why They Still Manufacture Vinyl LPs!
I dare say it is porn for the record store clerk-snob in all of us.
Mmmmm warm sounds from grooves in the vinyl.
i never knew the tullycraft site would be so educational
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