Re: denotation of "album"

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Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:

> Bubele,
>
> I personally use "recording" in conversation.  When I say "album" amongst 
> people
> much younger than I they look at me funny, like the RCA dog.  What was his 
> name,
> Sparky?

Nipper.

Wolf

>
>
> Lorele
>
> Robert Cohen wrote:
>
> > Do folks on this list--and, I guess more importantly, do music lovers/buyers
> > out there and the industry generally--(still) accept "album" as a term
> > including CDs (and cassettes) in its scope?  (E.g., if a band has issued 10
> > "records"--which I imagine is a less useful/narrower-scope term--of which
> > some were LPs and/or cassettes and others were CDs and/or cassettes.)
> >
> > I realize that the word used to be used in re LPs--but bear in mind that it
> > had *no* actual coherence w/ respect to that usage at all--just a holdover
> > from its use for sets (i.e., albums--as in photograph albums) of 78s.  Its
> > continued usage in re LPs was a fascinating example, I thought, of a word
> > whose usage (to mean LPs) was accepted by all w/out any thought, though
> > few--only older folks, actually--could explain, if asked, why a long-playing
> > record was referred to as an "album."
> >
> > Anyway, do you think I can use it (e.g., on [CD] liner notes) to refer to
> > CDs as well as LPs and cassettes?  *I* always (informally) use it thus, but
> > ... should I?
> >
> > Thanks to all --
> >
> > Robert Cohen
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