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 ...

Last time, I talked about how the weight of a vinyl doesn’t necessarily impact the quality of how it sounds. Okay, so what ...

Before streaming services and digital downloads, millions of people got their music fix from the 45 rpm single. First rolled out by RCA in 1949, the 7-inch wax disc with its distinctive large central ...

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 ...

I’m sitting in the living room, listening to the Jackson 5 on a 45 RPM vinyl record. No this is not the 1970s. But the music is taking me back to that era, for sure. This is 2023, and I’m using the ...

As a throwback to the old days of the two-song 45 rpm vinyl record, the iTunes Store launched a new “D45†section Tuesday, featuring discounted prices on packs of two digital song downloads. Just ...