[78-L] e: Story of the LP

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote: 

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wright" <vintage at jabw.demon.co.uk> 

BBC Radio 2 have an upcoming four part weekly series on the history of the LP, from Tuesday 18th 
Is it 60 years since they started commercially? 

Technically, yes...IF you ignore Victor's "Program Transcriptions" and the 
many 33-1/3rpm non-commercial recordings pressed before 1948...?! 

....stevenc 
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Actually, none of the pre-1948 items was called "LP". Columbia named it that and launched it in June 1948, so to be specific, yes it's 60 years for the LP, an anniversary which didn't seem to get much attention that I was aware of. 

dl