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March 15th, 1949
- On March 15th, 1949, RCA Victor became the first label to roll out records that were smaller (seven inches in diameter) and held less music (only a few minutes a side) than the in-vogue 78s.
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Mar 15, 2019 · AP. When it arrived 70 years ago today, the 45 rpm single, a format that would revolutionize pop music, seemed less radical than simply confusing. On March 15th, 1949, RCA Victor became the...
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In 1948 the Columbia company had perfected the 12" Long Playing Vinyl disc. Spinning at 33 rpm the new format could play up to 25 minutes per side. This new record medium also had a much lower level of surface noise than did its older shellac cousin. However, Columbia's big rival, RCA Victor then produced the seven inch 45 rpm vinyl disc.
Mar 12, 1976 · Finally, in 1950, RCA capitulated, sort of. It began making 33-1/3 records using the Columbia system. But it didn’t discontinue the 45. Instead, it spent $5 million advertising 45 RPM as the preferred speed for popular music. In reality, of course, the speed didn’t make any difference.
Although it had been teased since late 1948 and early 1949 (RCA wanted to sabotage Columbia’s album sales), the 7-inch 45 RPM single had its official debut on March 31, 1949, after years of teasing. PVC was sliced into microgrooves for the 45 like Columbia’s LP. The similarities cease there, however. The 45 had a 1.5-inch-wide hole in the ...
In January 1961, the Compact 33 discs were released simultaneously with their 45 rpm counterparts. The long-term goal was to phase out the 45 rpm disc, but sales of the new records were poor and by early 1962 the campaign had failed.
Mar 17, 2019 · Digging deep into the history of the 45, it appears that the first record to go into regular production was “PeeWee the Piccolo,” pressed at a plant in Indianapolis on December 7, 1948. This...
Jul 25, 2019 · Google the history of the 45, and you’ll often read that RCA Victor invented it in 1949 as a response to rival Columbia’s introduction of the 33 1/3 RPM long-playing record a year earlier. Wrong. RCA Victor had secretly developed the 45—and its own phonograph for playing it—some 10 years earlier. (How secret?
