[78-L] e: Story of the LP

[don ward]

I seem to remember  that the first  "LP's" to show up in the local record store were 10", both red and  blue labels. Red pop and blue classical.
Right or wrong ??
dnward  

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>From: David Lennick <dplennick at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Nov 16, 2008 9:01 PM
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>Subject: [78-L] e:  Story of the LP
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>Steven C. Barr wrote: 
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wright" <vintage at jabw.demon.co.uk> 
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>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? 
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>Technically, yes...IF you ignore Victor's "Program Transcriptions" and the 
>many 33-1/3rpm non-commercial recordings pressed before 1948...?! 
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>....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. 
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