The LP turns 64 Today. Kids Under 30 say, "What?"
[If you play it backwards, it says “Napster’s Dead.”]
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On this day 64 years ago Columbia Records began producing the Long-Playing (or LP) 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record. Before the introduction of the LP, records were 10” in size and pressed at 78 RPM and could hold only about 3 minutes of music on each side. LP’s were 12” in size and could hold more than 22 minutes of music per side. Eight years later, in 1956. Harry Belafonte became the first artist in history to sell one million copies of an LP when he released “Calypso.”
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