![]() ![]() File formats we work with are WAV, AIFF, FLAC (lossless).Something you can hold.Īnd no matter what next big thing comes along, they will NEVER go out of style. Nevertheless, there is something about the 45 that an MP3 simply cannot mimic. By 1990 however, record companies began discontinuing the 45, except for jukebox releases and collector's items. CBS noticed this and test marketed the one sided single. In 1987, A&M released the first cassette single and other record companies quickly followed suit. If he went any longer, he risked tripping the automatic changing mechanism of many of these record changers.īy the beginning of the 80’s, sales of 45s were beginning to gradually slip as sales of cassettes and blank tape began ushering the "mixtape" era. However, bear in mind he was also taking into account standard groove width and the automatic record changer, which was very popular in those days. 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. Alternatively, sometimes, a completely original song. Nevertheless, 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. The reason there were detachable centers was for compatibility with some foreign record changers (like the early RCA changer, which was extremely popular) and jukeboxes.Ĥ5s also had the B-side. 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 centers. The very first Stereo 45 RPM record was introduced by Bel Canto Records in June of 1958. Portable battery operated phonographs were also made for taking your music anywhere. Fun to collect, share and trade with friends. Moreover, the 45s themselves were super cheap too, less than a dollar each. 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. The 78-RPM single began disappearing in the early 50’s 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 and 45 and 78 RPM for singles. 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. This era in the turn of the 50’s was called "The Battle of The Speeds". 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. However, the 45 RPM record and RCA 45 players DID have a few problems. 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 recordings Popular releases were on standard black vinyl. The RCA 7 inch 45-RPM record was cute, VERY small, and RCA's very colorful vinyl (each genre of music had its own colour of vinyl!) made it an instant hit with younger people. 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. Nevertheless, very little had changed with the records themselves. We had gone from unresponsive acoustic recording horns and direct to disc master recording to full electrical recording and tape masters. ![]() Recording technology had changed tremendously since Emile Berliner's first gramophone records in the 1890’s. However, 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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