- basically, what was the first #1 single that was not pressed on vinyl (or if it was issued as a 45 rpm was only so issued in a strictly limited format) or any of the predecessors of vinyl. I’l accept answers form the US, UK or Australian charts.
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Thomas Edison’s Mary Had A Little Lamb on waxed cylinder?
That would be covered by the “predecessor of vinyl” clause
I’m sorry, your OP baffled me with it’s sentence structure and parenthetical statements. Probubly just me.
So you’re asking for the first hit to be issued only on a newer format such as CD, 8-Track, Cassette or DAT? Correct?
According to “The Billboard Book of Number One Hits” the first American #1 single not available on vinyl was Roxette’s “It Must Have Been Love”, which topped the charts in the middle of 1990.
Hey, give credit where credit’s due. At least he acknowledged there WAS something before vinyl.
Edison’s recording of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was actually made on tin foil. Wax cylinders were years away.
Off on a tangent, anyone want to hear the world’s earliest playable sound recording? It’s from an experimental talking clock made in 1878. Click on the “excerpt” and you’ll hear inventor Frank Lambert saying, "Four o’clock, five o’clock, six o’clock, seven o’clock, eight o’clock . . . "
Your link is blank. I hope you can fix it. I’d like to learn more.
The world’s earliest playable sound recording, from 1878. One year after Edison invented the phonograph.
:eek:
That is eerie.
Why is that so eerie?
It sounds almost… disembodied.