45 Rpm facts
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45 rpm record players were offered in cars
Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely?", celebrating the birth of his daughter Aisha, did not chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 -- despite being very popular and receiving much airplay -- because Stevie would not allow it to be released as a 45 RPM single despite being asked to do so by Motown.
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The hole on a 45 rpm record comes from RCA, who was trying to compete with Columbia with stackable singles versus single LPs.
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33 RPM records and 45 RPM singles are the remnants of an old format war
