#78s

[thedevilsgun]

A dream cane true recently - Beautiful Kriesler 11-91 “Multi Sonic Stereo Hi Fi” Stereogram - it came with about 200 shellac 78s, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Williams, Slim Whitman, Marty Robbins, Everly Brothers, Johnny Ray, The Crickets, Duane Eddy, Carl Perkins… to name a few, like I said dream come true

[retropopcult]

A factory line worker lifts a copy of Leon Rusk's "Air Mail Special on the Fly" from a stamper at the King Record Company pressing plant in Cincinnati, 1946.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A young couple playing records in Washington Square Park, ca. 1946.

The album on the boy's lap is typical of the cases that housed the shellac records of the time, which rotated at 78 rpm. They could hold only a few minutes of music per side, and a song was sometimes split between the two sides of the disc. Originally they were issued singly, but record companies noticed that consumers were storing them in photo album-like cases, and began to follow suit.

Photo: Weegee via the Int'l Center of Photography/Getty Images/Old New York City Facebook

[oldshowbiz]

Native American jazz singer Mildred Bailey

[nemfrog]

Lionel Hampton. Hot Jazz. 1945. Cover.

Smithsonian

[regalwright]

We are spinning the 78's from the top of the world. Arctic Outpost Radio AM1270

I've discovered a ton of great music from this station! They're ad-free, and broadcasting 24/7 from Longyearbyen, Norway. They also have a good amount of non-English language stuff too. Do be warned: since they play shellac from 1902-1952, some problematic stuff does occasionally make it's way in.

[mosaicrecords]

Matthew Rivera: The Apostle of Shellac

There is hope in the world, setting politics aside for the moment, in the ranks of young jazz fans who collect, research and listen to jazz that were first issued on 78 RPM recordings. One such person is Matthew Rivera, who hosts radio programs dedicated to the medium on WKCR and is host of a New York Hot Club; he tells his story to Michael Steinman for The Syncopated Times.

-Scott Wenzel

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