1948 in music

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Events

• Aldeburgh Festival is founded by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears.
• Al Jolson is voted the "Most Popular Male Vocalist" in 1948 by a Variety poll
• Patti Page becomes the first artist to use the technique of multi-track overdubbing (later popularized by Les Paul & Mary Ford).
• Perry Como has his first television Christmas Special
• Columbia Records introduces the 33⅓ rpm LP (“long playing”) record at New York's Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, featuring 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the 78 rpm record, the previous standard for gramophone records.
• Otis Rush's musical career begins.
• Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft meet for the first time.
• Quartetto Cetra dubs the choruses for the Italian release of Disney's Dumbo.