#78 rpm records

[stone-cold-groove]

50s era Children’s Record Guild record - The Music Listening Game.

[brawley1492]

Olden day music had its charm!

Even the "crackling" of the Vynal record was soothing ... William

[meeedeee]

"...the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm #records that are 70 to 120 years old...

Through the efforts of dedicated #librarians, #archivists and sound engineers, we have preserved hundreds of thousands of recordings that are stored on shellac resin, an obsolete and brittle medium. The resulting preserved recordings retain the scratch and pop sounds that are present in the analog artifacts; noise that modern remastering techniques remove...

These preservation recordings are used in #teaching and $research...

“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.”

#InternetArchive

#Great78Project

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

[bettiemaypagenatural]

What side do you want? Top or Bottom.

[djmossback]

King was a hell of a company. Very aggressive in Hillbilly and R&B. Years before Sun Records. Post war was a very interesting time, really wild, no rules, plenty of boundaries to transgress. All to sell records that the big labels wouldn't touch. Lots of garbage, lots of gems, sometimes both in the same record!

A factory line worker lifts a copy of Leon Rusk's "Air Mail Special on the Fly" from a stamper at the King Record Company pressing plant, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1946

[voca1ion]

The sunburst design on the mid-1920s perfect record label with the worshippers on either side has always been a favorite.

[popuprecordshop]

Fri Sep 22 & Sat Sep 23: Double #vinyl garage sale in White Bear Lake! 9am to 4pm both days, rain or shine -- two separate garages full of cheap and collectible vinyl records and much more. #1 near Lions Park More info on Craigslist and Facebook #2 Campanaro Lane More info on Craigslist

While you are up da lake, be sure to visit White Bear Lake Records (Fri noon to 6, Sat 11 to 4)

[mahgnib]

78-RPM record sleeve for the first recording of “The Hokey Pokey”, recorded in 1948, but issued in 1950, by the Sun Valley Trio.

[myvinylplaylist]

Jimmie Dodd: We're The Mouseketeers 10” 78 RPM (1958)

Walt Disney Records

[dzgrizzle]

One of the things I love about Tumblr: you can find posts like this, from 2015, in your feed nine years later. I remember my grandmother used to have an old Victrola but it wasn't as beautiful or ornate as this one. I think my grandmother sold hers at a yard sale after she determined the house was haunted and wanted to move (which she did, which was sad because it was a beautiful old house by a lake).

IvyCorrêa.

[mister---lee]

I've acquired 'The Machine' as I call it. A Model 6b30 Wilcox Gay Recordio. Constituting a radio, record player, and record cutter. Spins only at 78rpm sadly. It mostly works, just need to clean it up, buy a new needle and find a way to transfer audio to the cutter head. We will see if my little investment pays off.

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, legendary composer and bandleader, was born in Washington, DC, on this date April 29, 1899.

Duke was one of the most important creative forces in the music of the twentieth century. His influence on classical music, popular music, and, of course, jazz, simply cannot be overstated.

He is famous for his songs: “Take the A Train,” “Mood Indigo,” “It Don’t Mean A Thing,” and “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” among others.

Duke gained a national profile through his orchestra’s appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards.

Duke Ellington was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp on this date in 1986.

CARTER™️ Magazine

[retropopcult]

A promotional photograph from RCA Victor, c. 1950

From Wikipedia: "The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for the 78 rpm shellac discs. The first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc."

"As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s. Columbia Records, which had released the ​33 1⁄3 rpm 12-inch vinyl LP in June 1948, also released ​33 1⁄3 rpm 7-inch vinyl singles in March 1949, but they were soon eclipsed by the RCA Victor 45."

[detrixsta]

Happy birth anniversary to Al Dubin--

Song: “I Must Be Dreaming”

Composers: Pat Flaherty & Al Sherman

Lyricist: Al Dubin

Okeh Record: 41051 Matrix # 400706

Performed By: Joe Venuti & His New Yorkers (With Ed. Lang): Fred “Fuzzy” Farrar, Leo McConville (tp), Charlie Butterfield (tb), Arnold Brilhart, Max Farley (as, fl), Herb Spencer (ts), Don Murray (cl, bari), Joe Venuti (vln), Arthur Schutt (p, cel), Eddie Lang (g), Hank Stern (tu), Chauncey Morehouse (d, orchestra bells), Harold “Scrappy” Lambert (vcl), Fud Livingston (arr).

Recorded in New York on May 25, 1928

[meeedeee]

The Internet Archive is under attack by corporations seeking to wrest more and more of our fair use rights, our public spaces and our communities from the public good. The Archive was recently forced into a settlement for scanning and digitizing legally purchased books. They are now facing a $325 million lawsuit for accepting donations of old 78 RPM historical music records that were digitized by volunteers. The goal is not only to stop the distribution of these works, but to create new legal precedents that make it illegal to preserve or archive for any reason. This will have a significant impact on our culture, our communities, and our future

Here is how you can help them

1. Use The Internet Archive Site

2. Save websites via "Save Page Now" browser tool

3. Become a patron to get a free "library card"

4. Curate & Upload to the Archive

5. Tell People That the Internet Archive Exists

6. Browse The Many, Many Collections

7. Take care of yourself and the people you care about

(Link will take you to a blog article that goes into these suggestions in detail)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A young couple playing records in Washington Square Park, ca. 1946.

The album on the boy's lap is typical of the cases that housed the shellac records of the time, which rotated at 78 rpm. They could hold only a few minutes of music per side, and a song was sometimes split between the two sides of the disc. Originally they were issued singly, but record companies noticed that consumers were storing them in photo album-like cases, and began to follow suit.

Photo: Weegee via the Int'l Center of Photography/Getty Images/Old New York City Facebook