the man who invented the LP couldn't stand very elegantly and didn't
smile when people took pictures of him.

one day a man took a picture of him and he was next to an 8 foot stack of
78 RPMs and he was holding an equivalent amount of music under this arm
in the form of 33 1/3 RPMs "long- playing records" and he had a pen
clipped in his jacket breast pocket. he also looked his he was perhaps
tapping his foot.

the first LP was mendelssohn's violin concerto, and it was there,
somewhere in his little stack. the first recording EVER was edison's
"mary had a little lamb" on a foil-covered cylinder which fell apart
real quickly but I don't think that this was in either the 78 or the 33
1/3 stack because they appear to be classical music repertoire only and
besides, the original fell apart. fell apart. I love to say that. mary
had a little lamb fell apart. dr. peter goldmark no longer stands next
to stacks of 78s in an inelegant fashion; he is dead now. he fell apart.
I wonder if his mother could stop him from crying when he was a little
baby by singing mary had a little lamb before she, then he, fell apart.
they fell apart.

they did.