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  • When I was a sophomore and had a date with an angel, I put these lush and lugubrious Jackie Gleason 33 rpm's on the turn table -- Music to Make Her Change Her Mind, and Music to Make Her Misty -- heard in the film L.A. Confidential, sandwiched in with a cut or two from Johnny Mathis's Heavenly.

    James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011

  • When I was a sophomore and had a date with an angel, I put these lush and lugubrious Jackie Gleason 33 rpm's on the turn table -- Music to Make Her Change Her Mind, and Music to Make Her Misty -- heard in the film L.A. Confidential, sandwiched in with a cut or two from Johnny Mathis's Heavenly.

    James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011

  • When I was a sophomore and had a date with an angel, I put these lush and lugubrious Jackie Gleason 33 rpm's on the turn table -- Music to Make Her Change Her Mind, and Music to Make Her Misty -- heard in the film L.A. Confidential, sandwiched in with a cut or two from Johnny Mathis's Heavenly.

    James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011

  • In high school, I juggled Rock n' roll, Jazz and American Popular Standards, 45 rpm's and long playing albums...

    James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011

  • In high school, I juggled Rock n' roll, Jazz and American Popular Standards, 45 rpm's and long playing albums...

    James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011

  • In high school, I juggled Rock n' roll, Jazz and American Popular Standards, 45 rpm's and long playing albums...

    James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011

  • Like the record albums of our childhood, spinning 78 rpm's in a 33 1/3 world.

    Three Mississippi Sally Houtman 2011

  • Just as radio, television and 33 1/3 rpm's shook opera and operetta out of the public imagination during the decades of the last century, so modern societal and technological advances have altered the way songs are written.

    Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

  • Just as radio, television and 33 1/3 rpm's shook opera and operetta out of the public imagination during the decades of the last century, so modern societal and technological advances have altered the way songs are written.

    David Finkle: Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To 2010

  • I drove the entire distance both trips in 4th gear, keeping rpm's at about 3000 or a little over sometimes which averaged a speed of 69 or 70 mph. (this 4th gear towing is recommended by Toyota) So far my tranny and engine are behaving as if new, and this vehicle has over 100,000 miles.

    Towing a trailer, Morelia to Patzcuaro 2005

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