long-playing record

long-playing record

A vinyl phonograph record 25–30 cm in diameter that plays at approximately 33 revolutions per minute, designed to hold a full album of music (compared to an EP, or "extended-play record," which typically only holds four or five songs). Usually abbreviated "LP." The band only ever put out one long-playing record, but it's considered by many to be a milestone in their genre.
See also: record
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

long-playing record

A 33 1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph record. Abbreviated LP, a long-playing record that was played at 33 revolutions per minute held more music than did a 45 rpm extended-play record or their 78 rpm shellac and later vinyl predecessor. A 16 rpm record never achieved much popularity.
See also: record
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  • licorice
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  • on wax
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Several titles had companion long-playing records of illustrative music examples released through CBS (England) Records and Sa ydisc/Matchbox labels.
As Keegan writes: 'Churchill, in his shapeless siren suit and comic stovepipe hat, signatory cigar wedged between flabby fingers, looked wholly unsoldierly.' But marooned in a chic New York apartment in the summer of 1957, he found The War Speeches of Winston Churchill among the long-playing records, put them on the turntable and was 'electrified' by what he heard.
Vinyl long-playing records are making a comeback if they are of blues or early jazz.
Many post-war homes still had wind-up gramophones with their tins of steel needles, and long-playing records which revolved at 33rpm were relative newcomers ( brittle 78rpm offerings formed the major part of most music collections.
1948: The first successfullyproduced long-playing records were unveiled by Dr Peter Goldmark of Columbia Records.
2 STAN THE MAN A MAN who played top flight league football, aged 50 - and still set up Stoke's equaliser against Fulham - Stanley Matthews carried on playing for Hibernians in Malta until he was 55, The Wizard of Dribble broke long-playing records wherever he went.
1931: Long-playing records (33rpm) were demonstrated in New Yorkby RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players, and the first real microgroove records did not appear until 1948.
Every lotus-sitting, wouldbe guitarist wanted to be Davey Graham and his long-playing records lay in the racks for all to see.
Strangely, Merseyside has proved the final resting place of three previous long-playing records. In August 1969 Don Revie's Leeds had gone 34 First Division matches without defeat before losing a Goodison Park thriller 3-2.
1931: Long-playing records (33 rpm) were demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players, and the first real microgroove records did not appear until 1948.
Cabaltera: When we opened Remnants in 1994, pawala na yung mga long-playing records. That time, pag meron nag-offer ng OPM, tinatangihan ko.
1931: Long-playing records (33rpm) were demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players, and the first real microgroove records did not appear until 1948.
As a child who saw how my elder brothers meticulously cleaned their long-playing records, the idea of having songs to play on my mobile phone was unimaginable.
Other challenges came as the music industry evolved, and Cohen provides fascinating details on everything from copyright issues to the economic factors that scuttled big bands and the impact of the development of long-playing records, all in relation to their impact on Ellington and his work.
1931: Long-playing records (33rpm) were demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but failed because of the high price of the players: the first real microgroove records did not appear until 1948.