Volume 16 , Issue 17

NW Okie's Journey

Sixty-five years ago we find the small, colorful RCA vinyl 45rpm record coming on the scene with Eddie Arnold's Texarkana Baby with the flip side Bouquet of Roses, 31 March 1949.



As the story of the invention of the 45 rpm record by RCA goes, it was a new development in direct answer to Columbia Records' introduction of the 33 "LP" (Long Playing) record. It was a Battle of the Speeds. It was RCA's development of a new lightweight vinyl record, with it's own 45 record changer.

Remember the different colors to correspond to different types of music? But the colors faded away into the the standard old Black vinyl. Keep your eyes on the lookout for the following vinyl colors:

Green - Country & Western
Popular- Black
Classical - Red
Popular Classical - Midnight blue
Children's - Yellow
Blues and Rhythm - Cerise
International - Sky blue

Through our Saturday weekend garage sale trips we have collected the old 45rpm, 78 and 33 1/3 RPM records. Also, we have accumulated and added some of the records you play on the old wind-up phonographs. But I have not of yet find any of the colorful 45 RPMs that RCA put out. I will just have to keep my eyes open at the next garage sales, huh?

To change the subject, I have just reached the six month marker of "Stage1a" breast cancer survivor. I use the word survivor, because I do not, and have never seen myself as a victim of anything.

Cicero once said, "To be ignorant of the past is to remain as a child."

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