Tag: 1948

On This Day 71 Years Ago – Churchill wins a war but loses contact with the people!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 26th July 1945 Winston Churchill lost contact with the people he lead to victory in the war against Hitler and thereby lost the general election to Clement Attlee who lead the Labour Party to a landslide victory. Labour increased their seats in Parliament increasing from 164 to 393 giving them a majority of 159 seats over all other parties including the Conservative who limped home with only 213 seats. Following the announcement of the results Churchill went to Buckingham Palace to hand Read more [...]

On This Day 68 Years Ago, The LP changed the nature of the ALBUM forever!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 19th June 1948 the world woke up to a new kind of album - one that would change the way they perceived and listened to music forever! People were used to buying an album of 10-15 78s as pictured below but suddenly they could buy a single 33⅓ LP instead. But the album had been welded into the collective subconscious so the album continued to be used for the latest release of a new collection of songs but it changed the way the world perceived and listened to music forever!  Although the Read more [...]

On This Day 68 Years Ago – The LP was born!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 18th June 1948 Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new 33⅓-rpm long-playing phonograph record in New York City. The development team had exceeded by 5 minutes the 17-minute objective set by the president for a product on which could be recorded 90% of all classical music and therefore be seen to qualify for the description: long-playing record. Philco was the first to produce a marketable phonograph to play these new records. Columbia's president, Edward Wallerstein, presented a Read more [...]