[78-L] Story of the LP (sic)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 1 09:56:56 PST 2008


And in the undated (1932) catalog, under "Program Transcriptions" it says "See 
Long-Playing Records".

dl

David Weiner wrote:
> I have a 1931 RCA brochure promoting their Program Transcriptions - and
> while it states that the records are called PTs, it encourages buyers to
> come in and "ask for the new long-playing record." 
> 
> Dave W.
> --------
> 
> Thus Columbia never intended their system to be called an LP,  Long 
> Playing, or long playing, it was always to be Lp or Long playing.  
> Upper- case L, lower-case p.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com



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