Wednesday, April 02, 2014

I Miss the Old Days

Yorkshire Post: It was in 1949 that the Radio Corporation of America invented the 45 as a replacement for the brittle 78rpm shellac discs that had endured since the late 19th century. Like the 12-inch long players introduced a year earlier by rival Columbia, they sounded better and were virtually unbreakable.

4 comments:

Todd Mason said...

People tend to forget the 45 RPM albums RCA offered for a while.

mybillcrider said...

I have good memories of those.

Anonymous said...

Nowadays the hot format in the High End audiophile world is the 12"/45 rpm vinyl disc, uniting the two warring formats at last. Cost you a $50 bill, though.
Art Scott

mybillcrider said...

Yikes.