What year did the first record album come out?

Answer 1

That's All Right / Blue Moon of KentuckyRelease: Sun 209 That's All Right / Blue Moon of Kentucky (45) and (78)

Artist: Elvis Presley

Release Date: 7/19/1954

Answer 2

In 1888 and improved but ended in 1983 it was also invented by a guy named Emile Berlier. But ended because the Cd's were invented.

***Correction from another user*** in 1983 they did not STOP making vinyl, they still press vinyl to this day

also The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison NOT 1888

Answer 3

You have to go back to the earliest recordings of musical works that would not fit on one record. For a while they were sold separately, but record stores also sold blank albums that had pockets for a dozen records or so. By 1925 the Victor Talking Machine Co. was selling large works like symphonies in specially printed albums, but the practice may be earlier than that date. When the vinyl LP was first marketed in 1948, Columbia wanted to avoid the notion that a single record wasn't worth four or five times as much as the usual records, so they referred to LPs as "albums" and the word stuck forever. You may be thinking of vinyl LPs, but actually large works like operas were marketed in albums with pockets just as the old records were.