![]() Just when you think you've seen and heard it all. "Little Boxes" The Womenfolk (1964) at 1:03 actually charted in the Billboard Hot 100!īut that's the fun of record collecting. Shortest one I've seen is " Beside" by The Fastest Group Alive, Valiant V-754 (B side) :35". ( UPDATE 4/30/15 - Wayne Whitehorne says "Longest one I've ever seen is "Lunar Sea" by Camel, Janus J-262 (B side) 10:27. John Lennon once asked this to George Martin in 1968 and George Martin, after some experimenting, found the answer - 7 minutes, 11 seconds. There's also been the question of how long can one side of a 45 play. Most of them are collector's items and many were never released to CD. Most of the B-sides of Elton John's 45s had songs recorded just for them, as Elton John felt it gave his fans better value for their money. Or sometimes, a completely original song. ![]() But sometimes, it would be a live track, an instrumental version of the A-Side song, an outtake from the parent album session. Most were a second, non-single track from the parent album. In Australia, most 45s had standard LP spindle holes.Ĥ5s also had the B-side. The reason there were detachable centres was for compatibility with some foreign record changers (like the early RCA changer, which was extremely popular) and jukeboxes. In other European countries, 45s were pressed with a standard 45 spindle hole. In the UK, Japan and some European countries 45s were pressed with detachable centres. ![]() Before the cassette tape, CD and MP3 player, 45s were the perfect portable personal music medium. The last American commercially released 78 RPM singles appeared in 1959, however they were still made for children's records and older jukeboxes until 1964.Īnd thus began the era of the 45s. The 78 RPM single began disappearing in the early '50s and the 78 RPM speed regulated to children's records through hand-me-down phonographs from their parents. The other major labels mostly aligned with the 33 1/3 RPM LP for albums (Capitol however released albums in all three speeds) and 45 and 78 RPM for singles. This era in the turn of the '50s was called "The Battle of The Speeds" Some people preferred the 33 1/3 RPM LP, others the new 45 RPM players and old timers who insisted on the 78 RPM speed. Something the 33 1/3 RPM record rarely had. Second, classical music fans still had to put up with the same mid-movement breaks that plagued symphonic fans since the dawn of classical recording. First, the players could only play 45 RPM records. Country releases were on green vinyl, Children's records were on yellow vinyl, Classical releases were on red vinyl, "Race" (or R&B and Gospel) records were on orange vinyl, Blue vinyl/blue label was used for semi-classical instrumental music and blue vinyl/black label for international recordingsīut the 45 RPM record and RCA 45 players DID have a few problems. Popular releases were on standard black vinyl. The RCA 7" inch 45 RPM record was cute, VERY small, and RCA's very colourful vinyl (each genre of music had it's own colour of vinyl!) made it an instant hit with younger people. " "Texarkana Baby" Eddy Arnold (1949), the world's first commercially released 45 RPM record. When Columbia came out with the LP record, RCA scrambled on it's own project and in 1949, unveiled the 45 RPM record. RCA Victor, Columbia's long time rival was also working on a newer and better record at the same time as Columbia. It played for about 20 minutes per side and made of thick and much quieter vinyl. In 1948, Columbia Records unveiled the 33 1/3 RPM long playing record. They still rotated at 78 RPM, still made of noisy shellac and extremely fragile. ![]() We had gone from unresponsive acoustic recording horns and direct to disc master recording to full electrical recording and tape masters.īut very little had changed with the records themselves. ![]() Recording technology had changed tremendously since Emile Berliner's first gramophone records in the 1890s. Just sit back and relax, Truman was going to take care of everything.īut there WAS one little problem.the records themselves. The Depression and the war had passed and America was entering a new period of comfort and affluence. In the late 1940s, record sales were great. ![]()
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