The covers of these bound books were wider and taller than the records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, and suspending the fragile records above the shelf, protecting them. (The name "record album" was printed on some covers.) These empty albums were sold in both 10- and 12-inch sizes. (It is not indicated what the specially designed package was.) The practice of issuing albums does not seem to have been taken up by other record companies for many years.īeginning in the 1920s, bound collections of empty sleeves with a plain paperboard or leather cover were sold as "record albums" (similar to a photograph album) that customers could use to store their records. German record company Odeon pioneered the "album" in 1909 when it released the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky on four double-sided discs in a specially designed package. Records could be laid on a shelf horizontally or stood upright on an edge, but because of their fragility, many broke in storage. Generally the sleeves had a circular cutout allowing the record label to be seen. These were invariably made out of acid paper, limiting conservability. The 78-rpm records were issued in both 10- and 12-inch diameter sizes and were usually sold separately, in brown paper or cardboard sleeves that were sometimes plain and sometimes printed to show the producer or the retailer's name. Cover for Bing Crosby's 1941 compilation album Crosbyana issued on six 78 recordsĪround 1910, 78-rpm records replaced the phonograph cylinder as the medium for recorded sound.
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