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HAPPY BIRTHDAY 33 1/3


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Actually the 33 1/3 is 72 this year.

RCA released the first 33 rpm records in 1931.

Due to the depression at the time however people didn't seem to feel like buying into a new format.

In 1948 Columbia re-introduced the 33 rpm record format to much greater success.

1948 is also the year that RCA released the 45rpm record format.

Extra points if you know who was the first commercial artist to use magnetic tape recordings way back in 1947.

Peace, Josh

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Yup,

Bing Crosby it was.

The tape machines he used were based off of the germans magnetophones.

I believe a Major John Mullin was the officer who had the magnetophones sent back to the states to be examined.

He then demonstrated rebuilt versions based on the german schematics at the institute of radio engineers in 1946 and went on to become the recording engineer for Bing Crosby.

Peace, Josh

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