The Language of Vinyl

Ever hear of a butt splice? A cover? An iron mother? A biscuit? These were terms used in the heyday of vinyl records, from 1949 to the mid-1980s. This colorful and almost forgotten language was once used by record producers, label owners, disc jockeys, jukebox operators, record distributors, and others in the music industry. Their language is collected in this dictionary. Each entry offers both an explanation of a term’s meaning as well as its context and use in the history of the record business.

Randy McNutt is a freelance writer and record producer in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Randy McNutt
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 271
Bibliographic Info: 20 photos, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2021
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8572-4
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4365-6
Imprint: McFarland

Preface  1
The Dictionary  5
Bibliography  249
Index  255

“Entertaining and useful…I expect I will turn to this well-done volume with some frequency to better understand the subtleties of industry jargon and trends in past decades, and also to provide a more complete historical understanding of the world of recordings as they developed across that last century.”—Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal