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We got A sides and B sides, so that makes two songs to a record. We lived with that format for decades, and some swell years those were, too - 'cause even though every record was the same size, and spun for the same three minutes or so, there was, cats, infinite variety in what made them spin. These were the days when the rest of the world found out what the blues was all about; when jazz was falling out of the skies like pennies, to the point where the 1920s are remembered as the Jazz Age; and when, children, all God's chillun started to swing.
And swing they did, with that same variety - from Benny Goodman to Cab Calloway, from Glenn Miller to Duke Ellington, from the Boswell Sisters to the Andrews Sisters, and on and on and on. |
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 etro T-shirts inspired by 78 RPM record labels from the days of swing, jazz, big bands, and the blues. Stay in the groove, hepcats, with the tees from times gone by! |
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etro T-shirts inspired by 78 RPM record labels from the days of swing, jazz, big bands, and the blues. Stay in the groove, hepcats, with the tees from times gone by!
And what about today's cats and kittens? 'Cause, you know, whatever else you can say, there's still no question about what don't mean a thing.
Baby, we've got you covered.
That's right - whether you're a Hepcat or a Jitterbug; whether you've embraced your Inner Floozy, or whether you get all hopped up about it when the word's bandied around; whether you swing high and loose, or tight and fast - we've got the goods to wrap around you.
So what're you waiting for? Get happy!
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nce upon a time in a joint far, far away, records were... records. Come to think of it, radios had tubes, too - but that's another story.
78 would run for just over three minutes. That's how we decided how long a popular song ought to be, and mostly, we haven't changed our minds.
id anyone even pay attention to the labels? Graphic artists in the twenties and thirties were working from a tradition of hand lettering and design that doesn't even exist today.
ou've got just about any sort of design, whether it hailed from art deco or the five and dime - and though the pressures of the business led often enough down a trail to the land of what's cheap, these nameless artists still managed to squeeze in some flights of brilliance and wonder. 
