This 75-year-old vinyl record plant survived Napster, CDs and 8-tracks and is busier than ever

(29 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 11 July 2024
1. Tight of a puck of vinyl being pressed in a machine
2. Tight on a machine cutting off excess vinyl and dropping record onto a stack of records
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Michaels, CEO of United Record Pressing:
"When I bought United Record Pressing in 2007, vinyl was was was a dying species."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Michaels, CEO of United Record Pressing:
"A lot of what the company did was it made 12-inch singles for rap, hip hop artists."

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Los Angeles, 21 December 2006
5. FILE: Man pulls record album from shelf

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Michaels, CEO of United Record Pressing:
"It was primarily audiophiles and aficionados that clung to the, you know, the experience of vinyl."

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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Michaels, CEO of United Record Pressing:
"You had a lot of independent artists that really embraced that thesis and supported it, and they wanted their music on vinyl and they really insisted on it and their fans embraced it. And so all the sudden now there there was a whole generation of fans that were discovering this this beautiful format that that had been forgotten."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 11 July 2024
8. Tight on two album covers for White Stripes and Iron Maiden on display at United Record Pressing
9. Wide of a worker stacking stickers for a Pearl Jam album
10. Zoom out on an AC/DC vinyl record on display
11. Tight on a sticker for an album by SZA

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dallas – 18 April 2024
12. FILE: Customers looking through selection of records at Josey Records in Dallas

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Stockholm, Sweden – 29 April 2024
13. FILE: Various of Taylor Swift vinyl records on display

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 11 July 2024
12. Wide of an employee looking closely at a machine pressing the vinyl record
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Michaels, CEO of United Record Pressing:
"Today we have about 125 employees. As demand fluctuates throughout the year, we have the capacity to make as much as 80,000 records a day."
14. Medium of a machine dropping records on a stack
15. Tight of a record playing
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Michaels, CEO of United Record Pressing:
"A record, you get to pick it up and you look at it and you experience setting on the platter and putting the needle, setting the needle in the groove and having an experience and opening it up and reading the liner notes and understanding the history and all the work that went into it and the people that played on it."
17. Wide of an employee inspecting a record and putting it in a sleeve
18. Tight on levels on a soundboard moving
19. Wide of an engineer at United Record Pressing listening to a record
20. Wide of Tyler Bryant, quality control lead, turning up the record player to listen to a Johnny Cash song
21. Wide of exterior of United Record Pressing

AP Video by Kristin M. Hall
STORYLINE:
United Record Pressing in Nashville has survived 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, Napster, iPods and streaming services.

Six decades after it pressed the Beatles’ first single in the U.S., the country’s oldest vinyl record maker has rebounded so dramatically thanks to new generations of younger vinyl fans.

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