Source: Good News Network
On this day 70 years ago, the RCA Victor company introduced the 45-rpm record, an advancement that had taken almost a decade to develop. The 7-inch single was designed to offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78-rpm record currently in use. Most importantly, using the new record players, listeners could stack the disks, and hear up to ten records in a row with “speedy, silent, hardly noticeable changes,” as the advertisements boasted.
The music system was designed to compete with the Long Playing records (LPs) introduced by Columbia a year earlier. The ‘45s’ became a staple in jukeboxes and homes for decades to come… (1949)Every episode of the television sit-com Happy Days began with a 45-record dropping into place to play the theme song.MORE Good News on this Date:
- Johann Sebastian Bach, the composer who revolutionized religious and secular music and inspired Mozart, was born (1685)
- Composer Joseph Haydn (Father of the Symphony and String Quartet, and mentor to Beethoven. was born in Austria (1732)
- The Eiffel Tower, designed by architect Gustave Eiffel, officially opened to commemorate the French Revolution (1889)
- Albert Einstein lectured in New York on his new theory of relativity (1921)
- Britain & France agreed to support Poland if it were invaded by Germany (1939)
- Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire for the first time, ascending to a new level with his stage persona, two months before Are You Experienced was released…
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