For those born much later than I, this cartoon was drawn before the arrival of the CD. It fact, this cartoon preceded the introduction of the tape cassette. We listened to music on phonographs that played records. In order to do so, a needle was required which scratched along grooves in the record surface while it spun on a turntable.
My first records were on a hard vinyl at 78 rpms. The seventy-eights had a small hole in the center for holding it to the turntable. Then came smaller records called forty-fives (45 rpm), but they had a bigger hole in the center, much bigger. By the time I drew this cartoon, we had advanced to the thirty-three and a third rpm record. These were bigger than the 78s, but were back with the small hole.
Another version of the same cartoon gag.
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