Long-playing record (LP)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

Long-playing record (LP) · In 1948, Columbia presented the long-playing record: a vinyl disc with finer grooves that turns at 33⅓ revolutions per minute. One side held well over twenty minutes of music instead of three. At first the LP was intended mainly for classical music, but jazz musicians used the space for long improvisations and singers such as Frank Sinatra made albums built around a single mood. In the 1960s, the album became an art form in rock: a coherent whole with a sleeve, a running order and sometimes a concept.

Listening

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  In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning · Frank Sinatra, 1955
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  So What · Miles Davis, 1959
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  A Day in the Life · The Beatles, 1967

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See also

• Stereo
• 45 rpm single
• Technics SL-1200 and scratching
• Compact disc (CD)
• Gramophone and the 78 rpm record
• Cool Jazz and modal jazz
• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Singer-songwriters