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![]() ![]() ![]() Each page was numbered and in the front of each book was a ledger in which the titles of the 78s could be entered for easy access. ![]() The solution was to start offering bound books into which 10 or 12 10-inch 78s could be filed. This, of course, began to present a problem for anyone planning on collecting music, since stacking such items has never been desireable and uncontained, these could quickly get out of hand. This is what 90 cents would have gotten you in 1945 (45 cents each, about the same as $5 today): Pictured below are two mid-40's ten inch 78s in representative paper sleeves. These were different days, and not only did it take some time for 78 records to start coming with a song on each side (after all, cylinders could only contain a single song of a certain length), but these records were purchased singly, in little brown paper sleeves at the local department or music store. And unlike those flexible LPs, made of elastic vinyl, many 78 records were made of the thick and heavy shellac. Early records ran fast - very fast, 78 rotations per minute, roughly the same speed as that very earliest of recorded sound devices - the wax or embrol cylinder - and pretty speedy compared to the 33 rotations per minute called for by the later LPs. I am especially fixated on early records, back before the variable microgroove was invented and the groove on the record's playable surface had to be uniformly as wide as the loudest portions of the music track, whether this width was used throughout the entire track or not. They're not only fun and exciting, but sound better than your MP3s! So there. You know - those vinyl things you drag a stylus across to play music. It will be Disney related "stuff", I assure you.Īs readers of this blog may have guessed a few months back, I am a collector of records. Look At My Stuff! My stuff and you looking. Merry Christmas! Since we're celebrating the Most Material Time of the Year here at Passport to Dreams, I thought I'd offer a special year-end "light break" from our usual through discourse here and start a limited run of articles where you, the appreciative consumer. ![]()
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