Glee Beats Elvis

In a technical sense.

February 17, 2011 at 3:58PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Let it be noted that if you wanted a song in the Elvis era, you had to leave the house, find a store, buy it, take it home, and use a transcription-decoding machine called a "record player." Now you can push a button and it's in your machinery automatically. So perhaps Elvis still has the record for the biggest number of singles whose purchase involved the use of one's legs. Or the number of singles people might actually want to hear 50 years later.

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