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Initially operating as Stark Record and Tape Service, the company placed racks of LPs, 45 rpm records and cassettes in rented store space and maintained their stock and displays. In 1965, the company opened its first retail store as Camelot Music in North Canton, Ohio with another store opening in the Mellett Mall (now Canton Centre) a few ...
United Record Pressing in 2013. United was founded by Ozell Simpkins, John Dunn, and Joe Talbot under the name "Southern Plastics" in 1949, the same year that RCA introduced the 45 rpm record. They found success by working with independent labels like Motown to produce 45 rpm singles for jukeboxes and the everyday consumer. [3]
Rooky Ricardo's Records is a record store in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco, California, which features mainly soul music 45 rpm records. Dick Vivien, the sole proprietor and owner of Rooky Ricardo's, has been an inspiration to local musicians and disc jockeys in the San Francisco area for 25 years. [ 1 ]
As sons of radio and TV host Zaki, the Dewaele Brothers grew up among vinyl records and started collecting them themselves. [43] [44] [45] On 26 March 2014, students of the PXL university digitalized 5.000 of the more than 40.000 vinyl records owned by the Dewaele Brothers. As a gift back, the brothers played a set at a student afterparty.
Two different ways of marking cut-out records on LP jackets. When LPs were the primary medium for the commercial distribution of sound recordings, manufacturers would cut the corner, punch a hole, or add a notch to the spine of the jacket of unsold records returned from retailers; these "cut-outs" might then be re-sold to record retailers or other sales outlets for sale at a discounted price.
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 ...
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RCA Victor began selling the first all-electric Victrola in 1930 and in 1931 the company attempted to revitalize record sales with the introduction of 33 1 ⁄ 3 revolutions-per-minute (rpm) long play records, which were a commercial failure during the Great Depression, partly because the Victrolas with two speed turntables required to play ...