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KHOU I (E> KTRK 1 SB O KUHT o KTBC O KCEN o KBTX KPRC Midwest Community Movie-. "Tt« Electric Horseman" Sneak Previews This OM House Business Report Sounthern Gardening “Carmen The Osmonds At The Ohio State Houston Weekly Cousteau Basketball Doctor In The House Dick Cavett ABC News ABC News ABC News David Letterman David Letterman You Asked For It Alfred Hitchcock David Letterman come in more speeds, sizes Records United Press International NASHVILLE, Term. — Buying a record has become as complicated as deciding whether to invest in money mar ket funds or All-Savers Certifi cates. It used to be simple. There were just the singles and the LFs. A 7-inch single had a song on each side and was played at a speed of 45 revolutions per mi nute. It lasted about three mi nutes, maybe less. The "A” side of the single was what was play ed on the radio to promote the album. A "long playing" album had up to 12 songs a few years ago, but that has dwindled to about Thursday Sports EVENING 9:30 CD NBA BASKETBALL Hous ton Rockets vs. Utah Jazz 12:00Q3 WEEKEND HEROES “Dan Pouts” Thursday Movies MORNING 11:30 CBN ★★ “Mexicana” Tito Gui- zar, Constance Moore. AFTERNOON 3:30CBN ★★ “Torpedo Alley” (1953) Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone. After being grounded a 10. At first, it was played at 78 rpm. Now the standard is 33 rpm. A visit to today's record store would confuse even the most learned discophiles. The singles are tucked away in a separate section, arranged according to popularity, with brightly colored name tags de scribing the groups and the songs. Pop groups still put their top commercial song on the "A" side of the single and dump some other tune on the "B" side. Having two hits on the same single record is avoided. A re cord company makes more money selling two singles than one. An adaptor is required to fit flier proves his heroism in the sub marine service in Korea. EVENING 1:45© ★★★Vz “Life With Father” (1947) William Powell, Irene Dunne. A woman and her four sons manage to manipulate their otherwise tyrannical patriarch. 2:00© AAVz “Raw Wind In Eden” (1958) Esther Williams, Jeff Chan dler. A couple on their way to join a luxury yachting party crash on a small island occupied by a peasant, his granddaughter and a mysterious American. 4:00© ★★★ “Fancy Pants” (1950) Bob Hope, Lucille Ball. A dignified man brings culture to the Indians. Thursday Specials AFTERNOON 3:00© RICH MAN, POOR MAN: BOOK I Tom Jordache (Nick Nolle) is jailed for statutory rape and Rudy (Peter Strauss) decides to date his boss's daughter for busi ness reasons. the big hole of the 45 to the stan dard phonograph spindle. The punk rock groups, true to tradition, take a different approach — an EP single, or ex tended play. They've been slap ping two songs on each side of the single and changing the speed to 33 rpm. No adaptor is necessary because the hole on the punk single is the same size as the hole on the standard album. There's also something called a disco disc. Even Dolly Parton released one of those. A disco disc is a 12-inch, long playing album, but there's only one song per side. "They were made for disco clubs," explains Barry Mayer, manager of Discount Records in Nashville. "They were much easier to handle than singles and had more music. But then the consumers started wanting them for parties." The disco disc may already be going the way of the 78 rpm album. Disco's death has a lot to do with that. An album is supposed to be 12 inches in diameter, right? Not punk. Groups like Cheap Trick started a punk trend by putting out a 10 inch disc. (CBS Records called them "New Discs" but that didn't stick). The price of the short EP is less, but you get less MPP — that's music per pennies. "There's less music and the fidelity is less because of the smaller size," Mayer says. "It's just a shorter album at a smaller price." Then the Pretenders did Cheap Trick one better — they released a 12-inch EP, or ex tended play album. The differ ence between an LP and an EP is price, the amount of music and the quality of the fidelity. The width of the grooves on the re cord has a lot to do with fidelity. The wider the groove, the better the sound, or so the argument goes. "I listened to an album and I didn't notice any difference," says Mayer. "Maybe the musi cians themselves can tell. I sup pose if you really had sensitive ears " Finally, there's the high- priced audiophile record. Some groups, dissatisfied with the quality of sound on standard, mass produced LPs, decided to eliminate one step from the recording process and press records directly from the master recording. The result is much better and more accurate sound that can be heard over normal speakers, normal stereo equipment with normal ears. Audiophile records include half speed masters, direct discs and digital records. For the first time ever, singles will cost more than $2 this year, thanks to a price increase by RCA Records that was quickly picked up by other record com panies. That's a far cry from the half-dollar a single used to cost a decade ago. An extended play 12-inch album costs about $5.99, but you get less music. List price for a standard 12-inch album is about $7.99. An audiophile record costs from $16 to $23. Prices, of course, are subject to change. GENERAL PUBLIC $5.00 TAMU STUDENTS $3.50 MSC CAMAC PRESENTS “EL CURRO” Y “LOS FLAMENCOS de SAN ANTONIO” A DANCE TROUPE MARCH 9, 1982 RUDDER AUDITORIUM 8:00 P.M. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MSC BOX OFFICE IN RUDDER.