Hello friends I was searching for some facts for my book, but there are no information available! I will post any information I can get, and your responses will works for my book and for Forum as well. Any help it will be very appreciated. This is the info requested: 1.-On early eighties when the CD did born, Columbia/Sony put on the market the first CD's, actually if I'm right, the first one was the 52nd Street by Billy Joel along with other fifty titles, what are they?
http://www.geocities.com/tengreatestalbumsofalltime/article_introduction_of_the_cd.htm http://www.geocities.com/tengreatestalbumsofalltime/article_history_of_cd_technology.htm at the bottom of the articles is a link to the original site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-20/h5.html
Thank you Babba I will to compile the lists, meanwhile here's the second question: 2.-Every early realease was pressed without bar codes? On seventies those bar codes were posted on products, actually the Wriggley's chewy gum was the first one in 1974, when were posted on CD's? and it was the same in Japan as the WG market?
No, according the information found. It seems that were two Billy Joel albums: 52nd Street and Nylon Curtain.
from fellow members: http://www.keithhirsch.freeservers.com/index.html http://www.ralphscomiccorner.com/cdjwg2.htm These guys can answer a lot of your questions I think.
Not the first, but it is generally credited as the "break-out" CD that created (or solidified) a financially successful and prosperous market for CDs as a musical 'delivery format' and commercially viable product.
OK the titles I found on the links Babba posted are: Billy Joel-52nd Street Billy Joel-Nylon Curtain Simon & Garfunkel-Bridge Over Troubled Water REO Speedwagon-Hi Infidelity Michael jackson-Off The Wall Any others?
First the cds were packed in longboxes, these had the bar codes on it. http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/bsnpubs/vpost?id=833267&trail=30 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4332/is_199204/ai_n15136310
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-20/h5.html In addition, while Sony was launching the CDP-101, CBS/Sony launched the world's first fifty CD titles, the very first one being 52nd Street by Billy Joel. The first fifty titles included classical, popular and rock releases. CBS/Sony took the opportunity to sell not only to audio fans but also to a wide range of people. Until then, electronics companies had only targeted such high-end audio products like the component stereo system representing 5% of audio fans. After the second and third set of CD titles were released, the total number of titles at the end of the year reached approximately one hundred.
Getting the info friend, many thanks. On Keith's page appears the first pressings but they are in alphabetical order, you know if they have a chronological one?
Yeah, I saw that site before was there where I found the fifty titles..... And as you quoted, there is other one hundred list to compile.....
Some nice facts are mentioned on this site: "The first Beatles CD, Abbey Road, for example, was deleted immediately after its release in Japan in 1982 due to copyright issues". http://www.foxdigital.com/cgi-bin/tame/cds/ccdpg2.faq.tam?cart=04H13fak.opd&l...
Another question: 3.-Smooth jewel cases. Those ones determinates the early pressings, but whe were take off the market? There are info about this?
One of the first titles to be released on CD was "Ghost in the Machine" by Police. There were lots of Telarc titles also.
OK thanks, but there are at least fifty first titles realesed under the Columbia/Sony label, I will search on Telrac.
Probably a result of manufacturing change. Once they knew how to make the case, the race was on to make it cheaper, using less material and stronger. Ribbing the edges makes them stronger. The manufacturers are constantly playing with the material mix. They can make the cases more resistant to shattering when dropped, for example, but this can make the case more expenisve to make. It's all economics! One amusing piece of information you don't see in the standard references: the center hole in a CD is exactly the size of an old (pre-Euro) Dutch 10 cent coin (or dubbeltje).
I thought it was because the smooth ones were more dificultly to open, the ridged ones were designed to faciliate their open. But yes the heavy would be other reason.