{"id":367,"date":"2018-01-31T19:48:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=367"},"modified":"2018-01-31T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:49:04","slug":"why-they-are-called-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/why-they-are-called-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Why they are called Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason we call our records “albums” goes back a long time to the early days of records. This fine example of Gilbert and Sullivan “the Gondoliers” illustrates why.<\/p>\n

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Gilbert and Sullivan The Gondoliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This recording was supervised by Rupert D’oyly Carte, no less. It is recorded at 78 rpm on 12 inch records. You can only get four or five minutes onto a side of such a record. That’s plenty for me, but\u00a0If you can handle 2 hours of Gilbert and Sullivan without reaching for the kitchen knife, then there was a solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Notes inside the front cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to 1948, when the 12 inch microgroove 33 rpm LP was invented, the only way to get long play time was to have lots of records.\u00a0Here we have 12. At 8 to 10 minutes per record that’s about 2 hours.<\/span>\u00a0 It is a credit to their popularity <\/span>that\u00a0people were <\/span>willing\u00a0to sit through this and change records ever five minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The album pages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To package this lot the record company produced these books, or Albums, to safely store the many records which made up the full composition. When the LP took over in the 50’s the term Album was still used, though now it referred to just one record in a cardboard sleeve. Double and triple Albums came shortly after.<\/p>\n

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HMV Nipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This album is from “His masters voice” which still lives on as HMV and uses the logo of nipper the dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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