Record Albums: I'm sure that many of you, like me, know why LP record albums are called "albums."...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm sure that many of you, like me, know why LP record albums are called "albums."

RRS Loc: Not sure

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure that many of you, like me, know why LP record albums are called "albums."

Sure do! A Happy New Year to you and yours and enjoy listening to a few of your albums, I will on one of my turntables. There are young people today that don't know what I'm talking about.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure that many of you, like me, know why LP record albums are called "albums."

Well, for those who don't here is the answer but I am not giving it away directly in this post. Ya gots ta looky it up yerself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album

I think vinyl and turntables are making a bit of a comeback for audio enthusiasts. My son is really into old technology; he even has three 8-track recorders (not just players).

I still have my Technics SL-1300 direct drive turntable from the '70s, with Stanton cartridge (I still have the wooden box it came in), which connected to a preamp of my own design (with appropriate RIAA equalization, of course), custom tone control circuits, feeding twin SWTP Universal Tiger 125 W RMS kit-built power amps. I put a humungous set of capacitors onto the power supply to eliminate ripple; when I power it up the lights in the house dip in brightness momentarily, and when I turn it off it plays for about 15 seconds!!!

Fun times, those good old days. Thanks for the reminder and memories.

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

Why is a collection of photos, in a binder, called a 'photo album'?

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Michael Hartley wrote:

Why is a collection of photos, in a binder, called a 'photo album'?

The answer to that lies in the definition of "album".

Etymology
From Latin album ‎(blank white writing tablet), from albus ‎(white).

Noun

1. A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
2. A collection, especially of literary items.
3. A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
4. A jacket for such a phonograph record; an album cover.
5. A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

As a kid, I remember adults paging through record albums. It was an actual album containing sleeves full of 78 RPM records - before the age of vinyl. You dropped it, you broke it. Instead of having one vinyl 33 1/3 RPM disc with a dozen songs, you would buy a large, heavy album with twelve individual records, each with just one song.

Today, we still call an individual LP an album, just as we say we are dialing a phone number on a cell phone, or going sailing on a ship powered by something other than sails.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure that many of you, like me, know why LP record albums are called "albums."

An album is a collection of recorded songs. Are they not albums any more if they are on cassettes, CDs, or on an ipod?

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I remember all of them. I played 78's for years on a very cheap "record player". My favorite albums were the Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma & Carousel. Remember 45's?? I literally wore my records out. I played trumpet and would practice while playing my jazz records. I'd play a record 10 - 15 times a day. Eventually, my Dad bought an Emerson TV/"stereo"with an automatic turn table. Way cool!! For my 40th birthday, my wife gave me a Denon turntable. (I still have it, but don't use it). I gave away most of my 33 1/3 vinyls, but kept about 50 of them. Every now and then, I'm tempted to connect the Denon to my Yamaha receiver, dig out the box of 33 1/3's and play them.

Good memories!.
Thanks Jerry.
Mark

jerryc41 wrote:

I'm sure that many of you, like me, know why LP record albums are called "albums."

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jerryc41 wrote:

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I remember those! And yes, my brother and I broke a few.

richard-sports Loc: New York City

JohnFrim wrote:

I think vinyl and turntables are making a bit of a comeback for audio enthusiasts. My son is really into old technology; he even has three 8-track recorders (not just players).

It is not a bit of a comeback. It is much more than that.
Record companies cannot find equipment fast enough to produce vinyl.
I do not believe that new equipment has been made to produce records so the companies have to find old equipment which is getting to be very, very difficult.

texaseve Loc: TX, NC and NH

I have no idea what you're talking about ;-)

I still have all that that were my parents and grandmother's. Bought an old standing Victrola and a couple other old LP players. Love them!

sands Loc: Jacksonville, FL

RRS wrote:

Sure do! A Happy New Year to you and yours and enjoy listening to a few of your albums, I will on one of my turntables. There are young people today that don't know what I'm talking about.

I still prefer LP albums and purchase vinyl any chance I get. Vinyl is definitely making a resurgence. I have a completely manual Linn Axis turntable from 1984 and use it daily to play my collection of approximately 400 LP's. Great stuff!!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

richard-sports wrote:

It is not a bit of a comeback. It is much more than that.
Record companies cannot find equipment fast enough to produce vinyl.
I do not believe that new equipment has been made to produce records so the companies have to find old equipment which is getting to be very, very difficult.

Right. Record production is way up, as are sales of players. I posted an article saying that the most popular audio purchase this holiday season was a $50 turntable with USB output.

http://gizmodo.com/the-holidays-most-popular-home-audio-gadget-was-a-cheap-1750309090

RRS Loc: Not sure

jerryc41 wrote:

Right. Record production is way up, as are sales of players. I posted an article saying that the most popular audio purchase this holiday season was a $50 turntable with USB output.

http://gizmodo.com/the-holidays-most-popular-home-audio-gadget-was-a-cheap-1750309090

I'm thinking about getting one but only to be able to go digital with all my albums and be able to listen to my music anytime or anywhere.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Got my 19-year-old son a record player for Christmas.
He was really excited and went to the basement to rummage through the LP's from my dad and the combined collection from my wife and myself.
I forgot about some of the albums we had. I have a player that converts to MP3 I got a few years ago, but never used. Now I'm fired up as well.

Getting back to photography, I love some of the images on the album covers.
Pink Floyd had some great ones. Keep in mind- they started out with a film image.