Fact #3089
When:
Short story:
Billboard magazine announces that, for the first time, sales of seven-inch 45rpm singles have overtaken sales of the old ten-inch 78rpm discs.
Full article:
Bruce 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow (deejay, WCBS-FM, New York City) :/ The music developed when the 45 rpm came out. I think that was the thing that really broke the camel's back, besides radio. It gave them the music that they could actually hold and that they could afford. That was their piece of plastic, their piece of black shellac. That belonged to them and not their parents. The 45 rpm record, I think, was the flag of youth in those days. And that really helped stimulate the thing.
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