[78-L] Longest 78

[David Lennick]

This is true..I forgot about those tightly cut 78s.

dl

Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> I have Polydor or Archiv Produktion 12-inchers exceeding 8 minutes per 
> side (from the '50s)
> 
> 
> BC
> Le 12 févr. 09, à 00:32, David Lennick a écrit :
> 
>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>> In the late 40s Decca reissued some of their 12-inch albums like Porgy
>>> and Bess Vol 1 and Ginger Rogers'   "Alice in Wonderland" as vinyl
>>> 10-inch sets.
>>>
>>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>> "Once in Love with Amy" ran about 4:20, I think..this was with a heavy 
>> bass
>> cut. Decca's twelve inch 78s routinely ran 6 minutes from 1950 till 
>> they
>> stopped making them. Album sets like "The Consul" and "Death of a 
>> Salesman"
>> were issued on 78 along with the LPs..not often encountered.
>>
>> dl
>>