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Follow [Victor Ola’s] advice and raid your grandparent’s record cabinet for some old 78 records. Modern records are made from vinyl. The stiff, brittle old 78’s from the 1960’s and earlier ...
How one group is salvaging old "78" records. Non-profit group "Internet Archive" is digitizing music from decades past. Share ...
Unless your records are rare rock 'n' roll or blues recordings, ... Put another way, visit any flea market and you'll see boxes of old 78 recordings marked at around 25 cents each, ...
I just missed the era of the 78 rpm record. I was a teen-ager in the 1950s, and by that time the 45 rpm record was king. This is not to say that the 78 rpms did not play a vital role in my life. I … ...
Before streaming services, black music was pressed onto 78-rpm records, even before vinyl. As we wrap up our Black Music ...
Agustin Gurza of UCLA's Frontera Collection has been studying stickers affixed to old 78 rpm records. It has allowed him to uncover a history of Mexican American music in the United States.
Our series on how technology affects art continues with a report on how those old 78 RPM records set the stage for music today's recordings. Sponsor Message. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: ...
In 1968, Elvis selected 26 of his favourite old 78 records, which he had owned since he was a teenager, wrapped them in newspaper, packed them in a small suitcase and headed for Nashville.
A 78-year-old woman in Missouri was charged with attempting to rob a bank, the third time she's faced such charges, reports say. On April 5, police officers in Pleasant Hill, just southeast of ...
Oct. 13—Richard Hinds settles the tonearm gently into the grooves of the 78 record, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers rises from the rotating disc and buzzes the room.
A Lansing man bought an old record from a thrift store on a whim, only to later learn it had been made by a group associated with the Ku Klux Klan.