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The 45 rpm speed was chosen to allow a 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 minute playing time from the 7-inch disc. [11] The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released March 31, 1949, by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for the 78 rpm shellac discs. [12] The first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As ...
Phonograph record; Single (music), including the 45-rpm format; Albums. 45 RPM or the title song, by Paul Van Dyk, 1994;
The most common rotational speeds for gramophone records are 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 revolutions per minute (rpm), 45 rpm, and 78 rpm. Established as the only common rotational speed prior to the 1940s, the 78 became increasingly less common throughout the 1950s and into more modern decades as the 33 and the 45 became established as the new standards for ...
45 RPM is the debut album by Paul van Dyk. It was released in Germany on the MFS label on December 5, 1994. It was then released on Deviant Records in the UK and Mute Records in the US in 1998. Initial copies of the German album came with a bonus disc of remixes van Dyk had done for other artists called 45 Remixes Per Minute.
RCA Victor issued boxed sets of four to six 45s, each set providing about the same amount of music as one LP (an extreme example of these 45 rpm boxed sets was the complete 1951 recording of the opera Carmen, featuring Risë Stevens and Jan Peerce, conducted by Fritz Reiner, which consisted of sixteen 45 rpm discs). In the case of operas ...
45 RPM singles records were usually drilled with a hole through the label, or stamped "C.O." A special section of a record store devoted to such items was known as the "cut-out bin" or bargain bin. [1] [2] As tapes and CDs supplanted LPs, the mechanisms for indicating a cut-out changed.
The song was the first official release by the Alarm since 1991, although it was originally credited as a recording by the Poppy Fields.. The single was released on 7" vinyl and two CD editions.
Although it was the first stereo single to come out of the major record companies, edging out the RCA Victor release of Perry Como's "Love Makes the World Go 'Round" by mere days, the single was issued in September 1958, while the first overall 45 rpm records to be released in stereophonic sound were issued by Bel Canto Records in June 1958. [7 ...