From 78’s to 45’s and LP’s, it was a revolution

If you began in radio in the 60’s or 70’s, chances are you remember well 45’s, slip pads and bent styli.

Go back a decade to the 50’s and you might remember when the heavy and breakable 78’s were used.

Within a few years stereophonic records would be released.

Next week on 2RRR, Brian Crabbe goes back to the 50’s and 60’s when the Coronet record label was launched in Australia in the middle of recording industry upheaval as they moved from 78’s to 45’s and LP’s.

Brian talks to Mel Meyer who joined the Australian Record Company at the beginning of the 50’s and spent his entire career with the company and its successors, now Sony.

Hear Brain and Mel on Ryde Hunters Hill community radio station, 2RRR 88.5 FM from 3 to 4pm next Tuesday, 4th September and repeated from 11am to 12noon on Friday, 7th September.

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