1948 - Columbia Records introduces the 33⅓ rpm LP

1948 Youtube vids

TV - Superman serial trailer vid
Perry Como - With A Song In My Heart vid
Nat king cole - Nature Boy vid
The King Cole Trio - "Killer Diller" excerpt vid
Marlene Dietrich sings Black Market ("A Foreign Affair") vid



1948 Music Events

-Columbia Records introduces the 33⅓ rpm LP (“long playing”) record at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, featuring 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the 78 rpm record, the previous standard for gramophone records wiki: LP
-Al Jolson is voted the "Most Popular Male Vocalist" in 1948 by a Variety poll vids
-Patti Page becomes the first artist to use the technique of multi-track overdubbing (later popularized by Les Paul & Mary Ford) wiki: overdub