On This Day 68 Years Ago – The LP was born!
On 18th June 1948 Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new 33⅓-rpm long-playing phonograph record in New York City. The development team had exceeded by 5 minutes the 17-minute objective set by the president for a product on which could be recorded 90% of all classical music and therefore be seen to qualify for the description: long-playing record.
Philco was the first to produce a marketable phonograph to play these new records. Columbia's president, Edward Wallerstein, presented a Read more [...]