Last month, with little fanfare, the LP turned 70. A bona fide Baby Boomer, the LP was born June 18th, 1948, when The Wall Street Journal broke the news that “A 12-inch phonograph record that will play as much music as an album of six or seven conventional records will hit the market soon.”

The oldest Boomers, still in diapers at the time, heard their parent’s albums, most likely classical, a Sinatra release or the soundtrack to a Broadway musical like “South Pacific” or “The Flower Drum Song.”

Fast forward 20 years–from 1948-1968– the year’s biggest albums included The Beatles’ “White Album,” the soundtrack of “The Graduate” and one from a rising superstar, 26-year-old singer/guitar player Jimi Hendrix.

And the world was never the same.