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:
People tend to forget the 45 RPM albums RCA offered for a while.
I have good memories of those.
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
Yikes.
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