[78-L] The difference between 78 and 33 RPM records

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Wed Dec 30 17:50:05 PST 2009


From: "Jeff Lichtman" <jeff at swazoo.com>
>>> How interesting to learn that 78s could hold only one song
>>> because they had no grooves:
 http://www.ehow.com/facts_5777428_difference-_amp_-33-rpm-records.html
>>> - Jeff Lichtman

From: fnarf at comcast.net
>> Those aren't really grooves, they're just, you know, suggestions.
>> Where the needle might like to go.

From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> No grooves in 78's . Hmmmm. So sez Yale University. I understand
> that many of our "intelligence" people attended that U.  As well
> as some political notables. No names pliz.  Al S.

Bush.

But actually he does not say that Yale says there were no grooves.  Read
the paragraph again.  Yale told him when they were made and what speed
they ran at.  He is changing the source at the word "Since".  For this
asinine statement his source was some music business know-it-all named
Jinjer Hundley at
http://www.musicbizadvice.com/the_difference_between_33_45_and_78_%20rpm.htm

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com





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