While vinyl records have been around since the 1930s, 45 RPMs (or 45s as we usually call them) didn't come onto the scene until 1949. Only 7" in diameter, 45s are compact but powerful records that ...

When Taylor Swift said she’d be the man, she didn’t mean it quite like that. Over the past few days, as Swifties have gotten their $49.99 four-disc vinyl sets of Red (Taylor’s Version), there has been ...

Spokesman-Review photojournalist Jesse Tinsley recorded his own rendition of a 1910-era song titled, “Sunny Old Spokane,” which celebrates the splendor of our great city. The words and music were ...

An analog audio recording pressed in vinyl. The 45 RPM record holds one song per side, while 33 1/3 RPM "Long Play" records hold an entire album (see LP). With the sound literally "carved" in a spiral ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: January 10th, 1949, 67 years ago today ... the day RCA Victor unveiled a new breed of phonograph record -- the 45. Just seven inches across, with a ...

If you’re a vinyl record collector — especially an avid one, with hundreds or thousands of titles in your collection — you’ve likely ran into the never-ending push and pull between storage and display ...