I do feel a bit guilty about it, and it isn't some old widow lady with "oldheimers". Looks to me like you took advantage of some poor old widow lady with oldheimers. But you should be feeling guilty about theat $19.99 price tag. I was a poor boy, mowing lawns all summer long to support my 45rpm record buying habit. I continued to buy top hit 45s at $1 each. I was intrigued by the album covers, but the $5 price tag kept me from buying any. I was buying 45s at that time and I remember when the record shop got its first albums in. The local record shop I frequented while growing up didn't get any 33rpm LP records until the mid 1950s.
It didn't get popular until the mid to late 50s. The 33rpm microgroove record, as we know it, came out in 1948. I'm from Missouri (not really), so show me.įrom what I have gathered, RCA did market some 20 inch 33rpm transcription discs in the 30s for radio station use, but none were ever made available to the general public with popular music on them. I seriously don't believe there were any 33rpm changers in 1935, or records either, for that matter. It was a bad time to introduce a new record system, using phonographs that were more expensive.
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Almost all RCA record players, be they manual motor boards, or changers, had the 33 1/3 RPM turntable speed through the 1935 model year.
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RCA launched a long playing record series that year. RCA's first multi-speed changer was on models like the RAE-59, in 1932. I wonder now, who has the most RCA players: Moses or Van Cleave? They must be nearly neck and neck! Mine has a Garrard RC-80, but it's not original.
I was going to say that the Berkshires had 3 speeds in them, but they didn't. I have a few of them, and they are far from good sounding.Īlso, after RCA did start making 33 1/3 LPmicrogroove records in late 1950, didn't they put out a 3 speed changer? I sort of thought that they were doing that in 1951.Quick, Doug V, fish me out, again! At least, they were putting a V-M 2 speed, and the 45 changer in sets around that time. Most of the LP discs were dubs from 78 RPM discs. It was a bad time to introduce a new record system, using phonographs that were more expensive.Īdded to that, the "Program Transcriptions" were short on sound quality.