How the Hippies Hijacked Vinyl

A pretty interesting/fun article in The Atlantic. Starts with classical and describes the evolution of the long playing record...all the way to the present.

How the Hippies Hijacked Vinyl - The Atlantic
How the Hippies Hijacked Vinyl (The Atlantic)

 

Not "Old Blue Eyes"?!?!
Not "The Pelvis"???

Come on!!! A little sense of history would help!!

Bing Crosby "changed" the "Record Industry'!

 

"The Greatest Scents in History" by Cyranose

 

Off:

Funny, thought the OP meant to put the other "H" word in the title...
"Hipster"!

 

I didn't put anything original. Just copy and paste.

 

Off:

That was a joke...
on me!


Clearly saw the title to the article in link & on the article itself.
Nothing personal.
Just Joking

 

Breezy read,but the old fart that I am was struck by there being a soundtrack to The Days of Wine & Roses,"featuring the saccharine title song by Andy Williams." There was never a soundtrack to this classic Jack Lemmon drama(based on a pretty good TV version) and Andy was never heard in the movie. It was just a Columbia Andy LP headed by the title song. Since Andy had so much success with the Mancini/Mercer Moon River from Breakfast At Tifffanys,this was a natural. And Mercer writing "saccharine" lyrics? Lennon & McCartney should be so lucky to possess the talents of Johnny Mercer.
Further down in the article,notation is made of the existence of liner notes inside of those shiny gatefold covers. Ahh,where? Gatefold covers were used for more artwork-images replaced words,at least from pop/rock/r&b titles dominating that charts.

 

Hippies?

Read the Sam Phillips biography by Peter Guralnick and get a sense of where vinyl was in the 50s.

 

That's just the title of the article.

I get the distinct sense that some people aren't bothering to read it. Too long, I guess, though I think it would be right down this forum's alley, so to speak.

 

No, I read it. Too much credit to the sixties for the surge.

 

The entire story of popular music post-60s.

 

The link doesn't work for me, I just get some weird "read this in Apple News" message and no way to get to the Atlantic article (and I used to be a subscriber). Anyway, Bing Crosby cannot be overestimated when writing about the recording biz, don'[t know why someone has a problem with him being given credit for moving things along starting way before Frank or the Big E.

 

Err, he is somewhat downplaying the 700% increase in record sales since 2008. Anyway.