Word: lp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training for this week's cover, he put on stereo earphones ("so that only I would be driven crazy") and listened to so many folk-singing LP albums that "my ears literally have calluses," and he hopes the twanging sound in his head will soon go away...
Impresarios everywhere are trying to book her. She has rarely appeared in nightclubs and says she doubts that she will ever sing in one again; she wants to be something more than background noise Her LP albums sell so well that she could hugely enrich herself by recording many more, but she has set a limit of one a year. Most of her concerts are given on college campuses...
...with his audience through recordings. Then, because of differences with RCA Victor, the recordings also stopped, and the pianist's worshipful fans were left to guess the results of the painstaking restudy of piano literature that he had undertaken. Part of the answer is on a new Columbia LP. Officially released last week on the occasion of Horowitz' 58th birthday, it stirred such interest that it had sold some 15,000 copies by week...
Some prices have come down (most stereo tapes are $2 or $3 more than LP stereo records); the tape itself has been more or less standardized-and the market has begun to boom. RCA's pre-recorded-tape sales are up 50% over last year, and the Harrison Catalogue of Stereophonic Tapes lists 2,782 releases. As for tape machines, their sales increased by some 27% in two years-from 435,000 to 550,000-and some manufacturers predict an annual sale of 1,000,000. Last year $50 million in new tapes was sold...
...suave, flippant score was just right for the genteel hipster hero it accompanied, and with its reed melodies and assertive, five-piece, rhythm-section backing, it was distinctive enough to be heard by itself. In fact, an LP record of Peter Gunn themes has sold an astonishing 750,000 copies...