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The 78 rpm (rotations per minute) phonograph record became the standard for audio playback in the mid-1920s, and along with the Victor Talking Machines Company's Victrola phonograph drove a surge of popularity for recorded music.

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An Interview With 78 RPM Record Collector Gary Herzenstiel

I have about 20,000 records in my collection at my house and another 7,000 at another house. I keep them in a room in the basement… [more]

An Interview With 78 RPM Record Collector Ted Staunton

Ted Staunton was born in England, but now lives an active retired lifestyle in Vancouver, Canada. Ted has an outstanding collectio… [more]

Vinyl Is Smashing Again New!

I know I’m going to date myself when I say this, but the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” is my favorit… [more]

An Interview With Beatles Record and Memorabilia Collector Jesse Barron

About 12 years ago a coworker told me that they saw a picture sleeve on eBay from The Beatles selling for 500 dollars. My sister h… [more]

An Interview With Psych Vinyl Record Collector Patrick Lundborg

I’ve been interested in psych records for about 25 years now. It started with just 1960s music, the Beatles and stuff like that, a… [more]

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Brewster's Miller shoots 63, makes US Amateur
The Journal News | LoHud.com, July 27th

"It was phenomenal," the 18-year-old Brewster resident said at 78 rpm. "I really didn't think anything of it until I got to 7-under and then I was like,...Read more

Concert review: The Black Keys at DAR Constitution Hall
Washington Post, July 27th

who governed the 90-minute set's speed, thumping through two dozen fierce, choppy songs that were short enough to have been written for 78 RPM release...Read more

Pop songs: does size matter?
Independent, July 27th

The three-minute rule originated in the length that was imposed on composers and musicians by the 10-inch 78rpm single format that arrived in the early 20th...Read more

The REAL Great Escape
The Star, July 23rd

lard and an empty fish paste tin, then demonstrated how to make a compass from a melted 78rpm record, a gramophone needle and a magnetised razor blade...Read more

Bit by Electronic Bit, a Cantor's Voice Is Restored
New York Times, July 20th

But his was a time when music was recorded on heavy shellac or celluloid 78 rpm records. The quality of those recordings was never that faithful in the...Read more

Are the days of books numbered?
ITworld.com, July 20th

And, when 2050 rolls around, books may be seen in the same way we now see 78-RPM records — odd historical relics with little relevance to how we spend our...Read more

7-7-10: Ian Nagoski and His Rare Old Sounds
Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast, July 6th

Ian Nagoski is a musician, a musicologist, and a collector of rare 78RPM records. He's the host of Fonotopia, a radio show he's developing with a couple of...Read more

Ronan Keating Shows His Wife A Merry Old Time At The Zoo
hecklerspray, July 6th

Listening to old Ronan Keating songs on our old dusty 78RPM records, it seems that the Boyzone frontman had predicted his own extra marital-cock dipping...Read more

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