National Vinyl Record Day
If you are of the proper age (if you know, you know) then you must be having that nostalgic feeling right now. For my friends and me, it was a Friday or Saturday night destination. The record store was the place to buy the latest albums (and later, CDs) from your favorite artists. Yes, National Vinyl Record Day brings back some fond memories of my adolescence. The music was always pumpin’ and people were wearing community headphones to listen to samples of music before they purchased it. Heads were bobbing to the music they were listening to and the cashiers were always eccentric individuals, for some unknown reason. For me, there were two big places to see all that I write of.
History of vinyl records #NationalVinylRecordDay
- The phonautograph was invented on 25 March 1857
- Edison invented the phonograph in 1877
- As early as 1894 the United States Gramophone Company was selling single-sided 7-inch discs
- In 1912, the Grammophone Company set 78 rpm as their recording standard
- In the first half of the 1920s, engineers at Western Electric, (et. el.) developed technology for capturing sound with a microphone
- Sales of records plummeted during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the entire record industry in America nearly foundered.
- In 1931, RCA Victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long-playing record, marketed as program-transcription discs
The in-depth information for the above timeline can be found here on Wikipedia. (my excerpts are from the same link.
What are some other days to celebrate today?
If you missed yesterday’s National Day then click here.
