Crazy Words - Crazy Tune (Vo-Do-De-O) (Palabras locas, tono loco), “The digitization will make this less commonly available music accessible to researchers in a format where it can be manipulated and studied without harming the physical artifacts.” “We aim to bring to light the decisions by music collectors over the decades and a digital reference collection of underrepresented artists and genres,” the Great 78 Project says on their website. Confrey- thegreat78project August 23, 2017 Performer: Zez Confrey and His Orchestra, Harry Akst, Mr. As the decades marched on, those vinyl records endured among collectors while the mass market turned its tastes to 8-track cartridges, then cassette tapes, then compact discs, and now the digital format into which these old treasures are being converted.
These 78s, of course, eventually gave way to the 33 ⅓ long-play LP in the 1930s, and the 45 rpm ‘single track’ record that became popular in the 40s.
Performer: The Modernaires, Paula Kelly, Mitchell Ayres, Stillman, McGrane- thegreat78project August 23, 2017 (Record speeds were not standardized until 1925.) Performer: Jack Fina, Fina- thegreat78project August 24, 2017įor those of you who are not enrolled in AARP, 78s or “78 rpm records” were records made from the 1920s and 30s that played according to the first standardized speed of phonographs, which was 78 revolutions per minute. Via Laughing Squid, we learn that something called the Great 78 Project is collecting old 78 records by the hundreds of thousands, digitizing them, and posting them so you can stream them.
Fans of old vinyl records will not hiss at this news: The Internet Archive and the Archive of Contemporary Music are attempting to preserve and digitize every single remaining 78-rpm vinyl album, and they're putting each of these recordings online, for free.