According to my new best friend Artie Israel (AI): The first Long Playing Record albums–LPs–were released in 1948 when Columbia Records introduced the long-playing (LP) record format, which could hold up to 23 minutes of music per side. The first 12-inch LP was Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E Minor (ML 4001),
When I was a kid growing up in the 1970s our ginormous Magnavox console living room stereo was the center of my after school universe. In addition to my ever-growing collection of jazz LPs, a great deal of my time was spent listening to comedy records my parents had bought
The recently deceased actor David McCallum was born into a serious musical family–his father was an accomplished enough violinist to be named first chair (and thus technical leader) of the London Philharmonic. McCallum himself was trained as as Oboe player before stumbling (so it seems) into his career as an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ja3NxeLhWghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFevOxOn7Ow Yesterday I posted several K-Tel records commercials along with a nice little history and discussion of the brand and the recordings. But did you know that, in addition to somewhat cheesy LP compilations, K-Tel made more-than-somewhat cheesy home products? Above are two commercials. The first is the K-Tel ‘Record