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Phonograph record; Single (music), including the 45-rpm format; Albums. 45 RPM or the title song, by Paul Van Dyk, 1994;
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 ...
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 ...
The single was released under the pseudonym band name the Poppy Fields. [4] Radio 1 DJs such as Mark and Lard and Steve Lamacq were taken in by the stunt. Music reviewers were raving about the Poppy Fields based on them being a bunch of punky teenagers. Record company executives desperately wanted to find out more about the unheard band.
Conventions shifted in the early 1960s, at which point record companies started assigning the song they wanted radio stations to play to side A, as 45 rpm single records ("45s") dominated most markets in terms of cash sales in comparison to albums, which did not fare as well financially. Throughout the decade the industry would slowly shift to ...
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.
Columbia used this label for its 45 r.p.m. records from 1951 until 1958. Transitional 1955 promo 45 r.p.m. label showing both the old notes and mike and new walking eye logos. In 1951, Columbia US began issuing records in the 45 rpm format RCA Victor had introduced two years earlier. [36]
Tempo Records was a mid-20th century United States–based record label headquartered in Hollywood, California. It was run by Irving Fogel . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Tempo bridged the 78 rpm, 45 rpm and 33⅓ rpm generations, releasing discs in all three formats.