ADJECTIVE
- (used of records) playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records
How To Use long-play In A Sentence
- Columbia Records, purchased by CBS in the 1930s, became an industry leader and introduced the long-playing record in 1948.
- For good measure, he also played a key role, a few years later, in designing the original packaging for the long-playing 33·-r.p.m. discs that redefined the term "record album. NYT > Home Page
- The night before he called, my wife Brenda and I had been in town and we had bought a long-playing record.
- The long-player will mix original material with traditional songs and is due out late next month.
- They quickly became the de facto world standard recorded-music carrier, and long-playing records and pre-recorded cassettes were discontinued in all but specialized markets within seven years.
- Whereas most artists are content to recycle successful albums with the odd bonus track for extra sales revenue, this particular musical genius has re-visited and remixed his latest long-player in the form of Guerolito.
- The combination of the transistor and the long-playing records was the greatest achievement in the history of the musical industry, because music as a commodity could easily enter anyone's home.
- After several decades' reliance on the 78-rpm single as their standard format, music companies introduced the 33-rpm long-playing album in the late 1940s.
- Landowska, Tureck, Gould, and the long-playing record, I believe, did much to bring this monument to public attention.
- Enamored of his prose, I snatched up a long-playing record of the author reading those two stories at an antiquarian book fair several years ago, even though I didn't own a record player.
