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LP record

Index LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 74 relations: Album cover, Album era, Analog recording, Argentina, Audiophile, Billboard (magazine), Bruno Walter, Cassette tape, Cast recording, CBS Laboratories, Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Collectors Weekly, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Conservation and restoration of vinyl discs, CX (noise reduction), Data storage, Direct metal mastering, Discography of American Historical Recordings, Dr. Demento, Dynaflex (RCA), Early adopter, Edison Disc Record, Edison Records, Extended play, Felix Mendelssohn, Format war, Gene Kelly, Giacomo Puccini, Great Depression, Half-speed mastering, Hansel and Gretel (opera), Howard H. Scott, Humperdinck, Johann Sebastian Bach, King Biscuit Flower Hour, La bohème, Leopold Stokowski, Les Gray, Magnetic cartridge, Nathan Milstein, New York Philharmonic, Noise, Peter Carl Goldmark, Philadelphia Orchestra, Phonograph, Phonograph record, Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart), Polyvinyl chloride, Popular music, ... Expand index (24 more) »

  2. 1948 in music
  3. 1948 in technology
  4. Album types
  5. Audiovisual introductions in 1948
  6. Products introduced in 1948
  7. Recorded music

Album cover

An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings.

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Album era

The album era was a period in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century in which the physical album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption. LP record and album era are recorded music.

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Analog recording

Analog recording is a category of techniques used for the recording of analog signals.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Audiophile

An audiophile (from +) is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Bruno Walter

Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer.

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Cassette tape

The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. LP record and cassette tape are audio storage.

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Cast recording

A cast recording is a recording of a stage musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience. LP record and cast recording are album types.

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CBS Laboratories

CBS Laboratories or CBS Labs (later known as the CBS Technology Center or CTC) was the technology research and development organization of the CBS television network.

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Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies

Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau.

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Collectors Weekly

Collectors Weekly is an online resource for people interested in antiques, collectibles, and vintage items.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Conservation and restoration of vinyl discs

The conservation and restoration of vinyl discs refers to the preventive measures taken to defend against damage and slow degradation, and to maintain fidelity of singles, 12" singles, EP’s, and LP’s in 45 or 33⅓ rpm 10" disc recordings. LP record and conservation and restoration of vinyl discs are audio storage.

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CX (noise reduction)

CX is a noise reduction system for recorded analog audio.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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Direct metal mastering

Direct metal mastering (DMM) is an analog audio disc mastering technique jointly developed by two German companies, Telefunken-Decca (Teldec) and Georg Neumann GmbH, toward the end of the 20th century after having seen the same technology used by RCA Princeton Labs for its SelectaVision videodiscs in the late 1970s. LP record and Direct metal mastering are audio storage.

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Discography of American Historical Recordings

The Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is a database catalog of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era.

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Dr. Demento

Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), known professionally as Dr.

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Dynaflex (RCA)

Dynaflex is a trademark for a thin, lightweight vinyl LP phonograph record introduced by RCA Records in late 1969. LP record and Dynaflex (RCA) are audio storage.

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Early adopter

An early adopter or lighthouse customer is an early customer of a given company, product, or technology.

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Edison Disc Record

The Edison Diamond Disc Record is a type of phonograph record marketed by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. on their Edison Record label from 1912 to 1929. LP record and Edison Disc Record are audio storage.

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Edison Records

Edison Records was one of the early record labels that pioneered sound recording and reproduction, and was an important and successful company in the early recording industry.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. LP record and Extended play are album types, audio storage and recorded music.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

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Format war

A format war is a competition between similar but mutually incompatible technical standards that compete for the same market, such as for data storage devices and recording formats for electronic media.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Half-speed mastering

Half-speed mastering is a technique occasionally used when cutting the acetate lacquers from which phonograph records are produced. LP record and Half-speed mastering are audio storage.

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Hansel and Gretel (opera)

Hansel and Gretel (German) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a (fairy-tale opera).

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Howard H. Scott

Howard Hillison Scott (May 31, 1920 – September 22, 2012) was a sound engineer and producer.

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Humperdinck

Humperdinck or Humperdink is a surname.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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King Biscuit Flower Hour

The King Biscuit Flower Hour was an American syndicated radio show presented by the D.I.R. Radio Network that featured concert performances by various rock music recording artists.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadri, tableaux or "images", rather than atti (acts).

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor.

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Les Gray

Thomas Leslie Gray (9 April 1946 – 21 February 2004) was an English musician best known for his work with glam rock pop band Mud.

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Magnetic cartridge

A magnetic cartridge, more commonly called a phonograph cartridge or phono cartridge or (colloquially) a pickup, is an electromechanical transducer that is used to play phonograph records on a turntable.

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Nathan Milstein

Nathan Mironovich Milstein (– December 21, 1992) was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City.

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Noise

Noise is sound, chiefly unwanted, unintentional, or harmful sound considered unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to mental or hearing faculties.

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Peter Carl Goldmark

Peter Carl Goldmark (born Péter Károly Goldmark; December 2, 1906 – December 7, 1977) was a Hungarian-American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33 rpm phonograph disc, the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations.

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Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.

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Phonograph

A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. LP record and phonograph record are audio storage and recorded music.

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Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride (alternatively: poly(vinyl chloride), colloquial: vinyl or polyvinyl; abbreviated: PVC) is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic polymer of plastic (after polyethylene and polypropylene).

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Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Pre-echo

In audio signal processing, pre-echo, sometimes called a forward echo, (not to be confused with reverse echo) is a digital audio compression artifact where a sound is heard before it occurs (hence the name).

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.

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Quadraphonic sound

Quadraphonic (or quadrophonic and sometimes quadrasonic) sound – equivalent to what is now called 4.0 surround sound – uses four audio channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of a listening space.

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RCA Records

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Record press

A record press is a machine for manufacturing vinyl records. LP record and record press are audio storage.

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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels. LP record and reel-to-reel audio tape recording are audio storage.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Shellac

Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks. LP record and single (music) are audio storage.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Sound-on-film

Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying a picture is recorded on photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture.

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Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Voice of Frank Sinatra

The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the debut studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Columbia Records, catalogue C-112, March 4, 1946.

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Ticknor and Fields

Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Trademark

A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.

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Vinyl revival

The vinyl revival, also known as the vinyl resurgence, is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records, or gramophone records, that has been taking place in the music industry.

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Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14, is his last concerto.

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Waldorf Astoria New York

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and condominium residence in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Westwood One

Westwood One, Inc. is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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8-track cartridge

The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. LP record and 8-track cartridge are audio storage.

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See also

1948 in music

1948 in technology

Album types

Audiovisual introductions in 1948

Products introduced in 1948

Recorded music

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record

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