This timing coincided with the launch of the stereophonic phonograph record. Victor is dictating a script (to a phonograph record). These audiophile albums were recorded in real time directly to the phonograph record cutting lathe. The company's phonograph record interests were subsequently sold. "I'm So Glad" on the then standard 10-inch 78rpm shellac phonograph record in 1931. Emile Berliner invented the familiar lateral-cut disc phonograph record in 1888. Earlier technologies were sound-on-disc, meaning the film's soundtrack would be on a separate phonograph record. Upon release, reviewer Lester Bangs of "Phonograph Record" described the album as "a real dud". Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie the Moocher' for 75 cents.