Who produced the first pre-recorded tapes?
PRE-RECORDED TAPES were first offered for sale by Recording Associates, New York in 1950. Their first catalogue listed eight recordings on plastic tape, of which No. 001 was titled Cocktail Time and featured 11 popular songs.
In Britain the first were six HMV recordings on 7 in spools, four of the Philharmonia Orchestra under various conductors and the others of the London Mozart Players under Henry Blech and the Covent Garden Orchestra under Robert Irving, which went on sale on 3 September 1954.
