![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The date of the very last 78-rpm record is not known, although some claim that the last one issued in the U.S. However, sales of 78-rpm discs fell off during the 1950s, and the last records were issued by about 1960. Many people hung on to their record collections, and most record players had a ’78’ setting until the 1980s. This 45-rpm disc doomed the older records, which were now known, like the ’45’ by their speed of rotation– 78 rpm. A new disc introduced by RCA in the late 1940s began selling well. It was not until after World War II that new technologies displaced the old.
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