[78-L] Albums

[David Lennick]

I still hear popular artists refer to "my new album". The funny thing is how 
often you'll encounter e-bay dealers or folks finding the stuff up in their 
grandmother's attic who say "It's a book of records" or "a folder"..album ISN'T 
a familiar term to them.

As for a single 78 referred to as an album, you're all forgetting some specific 
releases, often kiddie discs, that (a) used single number AND album numbers as 
catalogue numbers (Decca did this a lot) and that (b) on occasion consisted of 
one record in an actual "album", often with illustrations or the printed text. 
"The King who Wouldn't Dance" is a perfect example.

dl

On 10/8/2010 10:22 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I'm afraid common sense is in the minority now. Any CD release is called
> an "album" these days, whether it has one disc or multiple discs. The
> "album" label was put on LPs almost from the very beginning of their
> existence. So this egregious and nonsensical error is fully engrained
> into the public's lexicon and there's nothing we can do about it.
>
> Cary Ginell
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> It is true that that the term "album" was used throughout the LP era, but
> usually to refer to a record containing several songs.  This, of course, evolved
> from the fact that an LP was equivalent to an album of 78s.  But I don't think
> the term "album" was used as often to refer to an LP with one work on it unless
> you are referring to a collection of such records -  you might look at a shelf
> of records and call them classical albums, but I don't think you'd look at a
> recording of Schubert's 9th and call it an album.
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> I don't hear the term applied to a CD very often, simply because "CD" is easier
> to say.
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> But I agree with Dr. Biel, I have never heard of a single 78 referred to as an
> album.
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