DBASE IV AND ACCESS97 FORMATS 

(Email me and I can upload you a copy)

HI! OLDIES FRIENDS & COLLECTORS 

IT TOOK MANY YEARS COMPLETE AND LOTS OF RESEARCH FINDING THE DATES. 

THE RELEASE YEARS THAT THE RECORDS CAME OUT. NLST MEANS I RESEARCHED 

THE 45RPM RECORD AND COULD NOT FIND A YEAR LISTED FOR THAT RECORD. 

I USED MUSIC MASTER THE 45 RPM DIRECTORY (FIRST EDITION), BUT 

FROM WHAT I HEAR NOT ALL THE YEARS ARE CORRECT. ALSO IF THE YEAR 

WAS LISTED ON THE LABEL, I USED THAT YEAR. 

ON SOME RECORDS I GUESSED BY USING 

A HIGHER/LOWER RECORD NUMBER WITH THERE YEARS LISTED. 

THE  TEXT FILES ON MY WEB PAGE (The Truck) CAN BE VIEWED 

COPIED, AND PASTED INTO YOUR WORD PROCESSOR. PLEASE CLICK ON

(In the LINKS web page) COPY - PASTE BUTTON FOR HOW TO DO THIS.. 

THIS IS HOW MY 45RPM DATABASE IS SET UP : 

   FIELD NAME      FIELD TYPE       LENGTH OF FIELD 
1  GROUP           CHARACTER        40 
  2   LABEL           CHARACTER        23 
3   YEAR            CHARACTER        4 
    4   SIDE_1          CHARACTER        53    
 5  SIDE1TIME       CHARACTER        5 
  6   SIDE_2          CHARACTER        53    
7  SIDE2TIME       CHARACTER        5 
 8   RECORD_NUM      CHARACTER        13      

WHAT DO THE FIELDS CONTAIN? 

LABEL - THE 45RPM RECORD LABEL (RECORD COMPANY) 

GROUP - THE GROUP OR RECORD ARTIST 

SIDE_1 -SIDE 1 TITLE OF THE 45RPM 

SIDE_2 -SIDE 2 TITLE OF THE 45RPM 

RECORD_NUM -THE NUMBER OF THE RECORD LISTED ON THE LABEL 

YEAR -THE YEAR THE 45RPM CAME OUT (USED REFERENCE BOOK) 

SIDE1TIME -LENGHT OF SIDE #1 OF RECORD 

SIDE2TIME -LENGHT OF SIDE #2 OF RECORD 

IF YOU ARE 

GOING TO PRINT OUT MY DATABASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A MEGATON 

OF PAPER ON YOUR PRINTER.
Check out My Copy and Paste   TUTORIAL. 

WHY WOULD I WANT A DATABASE OF 45RPM RECORDS ?. 

IF YOU COLLECT RECORDS A LOT OF TIMES YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW 

THE YEAR OF A RECORD OR MAYBE YOU HEARD OF A SONG BY A GROUP 

AND WANTED TO CONFIRM THAT IT EXISTS. YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL OF 

THE RECORDS THE PLATTERS MADE. WHAT DIFFERENT GROUPS PUT OUT 

THE SAME SONG. INSTANT INFORMATION ON OLDIES. TRIVIA QUESTIONS. 

FLIP SIDES OF RECORDS. OBSCURE RECORDS. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF 

THE REASONS FOR THIS 45RPM DATABASE. 

{ALSO IF YOU OWN A LOT OF THE RECORDS ON THIS DATABASE YOU CAN 

PRINT OUT LABELS FOR YOUR RECORDS} 

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. E-MAIL ME

jhurray@verizon.net 

YOURS IN SOUND   JIM HURRAY (YOUNGBLOOD) 
{MAGIC MUSIC MACHINE WYEP FM PGH.)
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