Ongoing History Daily: What Sounds Better? A Vinyl LP or a 7-Inch Single?
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
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Remembering the introduction of the 45 RPM record in 1949
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
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McDonalds–yes, the restaurant chain–releases a 7-inch single.
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
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The world’s most valuable 7-inch record was just sold for HOW MUCH?
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
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It was 70 years ago this month that the 45 RPM record was introduced, accidentally helping to give birth to rock’n’roll
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
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A Handy Guide to Which Music Storage Format Sounds Best–and Why
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
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Happy 67th Birthday, 7-Inch Single!
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
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A Good Question: Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length?
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
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