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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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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]

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

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]

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]

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]

Ted Staunton's fabulous record label collection spanning six decades (1900-1960). Browsable by decade or label name… [read review or visit site]

Even more compelling than Adam Miller’s collection of 78 rpm record labels from New Zealand and Australia are hi… [read review or visit site]

A quick tour of 45 rpm label designs from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Do the whole slide show or use the alphabetical i… [read review or visit site]

Jesse Barron's collection of Beatles 45s, picture sleeves, magazines, books, and memorabilia. Browse singles and al… [read review or visit site]

This great site, from the Association of Vogue Picture Record Collectors, offers detailed background information an… [read review or visit site]
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"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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