Virginia Atter: A Television Personality with a Little-Known, Short-lived Music Recording Career
Virginia Atter: A Television Personality with a Little-Known, Short-lived Music Recording Career Virginia "Ginny" Atter. Courtesy of News4Jax.com In 1949, after Columbia Records forever changed recording technology with the introduction of LP, microgrove, and vinyl technologies, RCA-Victor introduced the vinyl 45-RPM disc. Known for its relatively small size (7"), enlarged center hole (1.5") ,and light weight, it became symbolic of 1950s popular singles as 78-RPM discs were on the way out. Several Arab American singers and musicians of the late-78-RPM era, never recorded on shellac because the format itself was a dying breed. While people like Hanan , Fadwa Abeid , Kahraman , Paul Anka, Mohammed el-Bakkar , and Lila Stephan and a few others managed to release records on 78 and 33 ⅓ or 45, others like Nick Anthony and Dick Dale seem to have never recorded on 78 and only on 33 ⅓ or 45. One such musician was unknown to us at the time we officially launched Midwest ...