Question: which form of vinyl has better sound? Is it the long-playing 12-inch album that plays at 33 1/3 RPM? Or is it the 7-inch single that spins at 45 RPM? Well, it’
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In June 1948, Columbia Records shocked the recorded music industry by introducing a replacement for the venerable 10-inch 78 RPM record, the standard format for selling music for almost 50 years. The new
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If you follow developments in the world of fast food, you’ll know that we’re deep into what some are calling the Chicken Sandwich Wars. Everyone is chasing Popeye’s in a bid for chicken
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I’ve never really understood Northern Soul, a peculiarly British phenomenon where obscure Motown and Motown-like R&B/soul recordings are treasured like diamond-infused slabs of platinum. And because these 7-inch singles are insanely rare, aficionados
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For the first fifty years of the recorded music industry, everyone had to make do with scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records. These 10-inch discs dating from the late 1800s and generally worked fine.
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I’m currently working on a children’s book for Kids Can Press which traces the evolution of the gadgets we’ve used to listen to music over the decades. The people at EnjoyTheMusic.com have come
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In the years after WWII, the recording industry knew that after almost fifty years, it was time to move beyond the 1o-inch 78 RPM single. Columbia, one of the industry’s behemoths, bet the
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When much of my day involved setting up playlists and rotations for a radio station in complicated music schedulers, we had to create dummy slots in order to help time out an hour
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