Mother Day 65 years ago.

This blog takes as break in the forward progress of the story of the 45rpm to reminisce and pay tribute to mothers everywhere on the blogosphere. Sixty-five years ago it was Sunday May 8th, Mother's Day. The 45rpm had been out for a little over a month and most records were still on 78rpm. The number one song on May 8, 1949 was Riders In The Sky by Vaughn Monroe. It had been at number one for eleven weeks, released on both 78 and 45. Only RCA VICTOR was issuing 45rpm singles. Columbia would begin releasing seven inch singles at 33 1/3rpm soon. Mothers everywhere could for the first time watch the Emmy Awards on television. A few lucky mothers received the first ever Polaroid Camera as a Mother's Day gift.  South Pacific was on Broadway and Mother's Day tickets would have been a very special  gift. If mom was receiving that new RCA VICTOR Victrola phonograph as a gift, she had a wide range of records to choose from, even though they were all from RCA.  The next year would bring many more 45s from a few more companies to choose from for that special Mother's Day gift. This year I hope all the mothers received great gifts from their children, spouses and relatives. I'd like to thank Thomas Edison's mother (posthumously) because without that first tin foil phonograph in 1877, the 45rpm may never have arrived when it did. To mothers everywhere Happy Mother's Day.