Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In its 75 years in operation, United Record Pressing in Nashville has survived 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, Napster, iPods and streaming services. The country’s oldest vinyl record maker went from filling jukeboxes, to helping DJs spin, to stocking shelves despite a pandemic. When Mark Michaels bought the company in 2007, it mostly made singles for rap artists, often promos for clubs. Today, United Record Pressing runs a newer factory six times bigger than what Michaels bought, with about 125 employees who make up to 80,000 records a day. Six decades ago, it pressed the Beatles’ first single in the U.S. and made more than 1 million records a month.
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