National Vinyl Day!!!

Today is National Vinyl Day for 2023! What a flashback. . .

Happy National Vinyl Day ! ! ! 

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A Brief History:
Origination: The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in the year of 1877. He was able to attribute his skill at inventing a product that was able to render an audio signal out of a pressed vinyl “record”, and have the record on a turntable style “phonograph”. The origination of vinyl progressed through the invention of more products and players throughout the years. The days of most availability of all of the mediums was in the 1950’s when an era called “The Battle of The Speeds” existed, where some people preferred the 33-1/3 RPM LP record, others preferring the new 45 RPM single, and yet the old timers kept insisting on the 78 RPM speed record.

78 RPM: The first rendition of a record that I remember was my parents record collection of 10 inch diameter records that were 78 revolutions per minute (RPM), a single song per side style record. You could get vertigo by watching the revolving turntable. Due to a shellac shortage during World War II, the end of the 78 RPM record era came about. The last 78 records were produced in 1959.

33-1/3 RPM: In the year 1931, RCA Victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long-playing (LP) record, a program of disks that were marketed as program-transcription discs. These revolutionary discs were designed for playback at 33-1⁄3 RPM and pressed on a 12 inch diameter flexible plastic disc, with an initial duration of about ten minutes playing time per side. Records went through some tinkering, and RCA was able to render a final playtime of 22 minutes per side, or 44 minutes total album playtime, by flipping the disk on side “B”, after which time, the original ten minute disks were renamed “EP’s” for Extended Play. The term DJ stands for a disk (record) jockey.

45 RPM: The “45”, named after its 45 RPM property was also known as the seven inch record. It used to be the most common type of vinyl single produced, initially released back in 1949 again by RCA. It was considerably more durable as compared to a 78 RPM record, and much cheaper to produce than the 12-inch LP record. In order to play the single on most record players, the hub had a 1-1/2 inch diameter, so the turntable either had to have a built in adapter that could be raised into an “up” position in order to play the to attach the widely hubbed record to the spindle.

The “45” continued into the 1980’s when all vinyl came to a grinding halt due to the popularity of the cassette tape.

The Comeback of Vinyl: The record was abandoned until the Rock ‘n Roll connoisseur’s era of the early 80’s. Even later, the impressive vinyl ability to be a mainstream factor of DJ’s in and out of radio. Rap music, concerts and and club music notoriously established the backing and forward spinning of the disk to give it that “wow”. The vinyl resurrection of the last few years, many companies are back making turntable and pressing vinyl.

Celebrated: August 12^th every year!

A Few Facts:
I am sharing my personal favorite playlist for vinyl records. . .

My Personal Favorite Collection of Hits on Vinyl: