[78-L] Shortest 78

[David Lennick]

But there were some very short early 78s, like General Pershing's speech on 
Nation's Forum (think that one is less than thirty seconds). And there are a 
couple of classical albums where the last side is barely a minute, since it's 
the conclusion of a movement and otherwise they'd have had to add a filler or 
leave it blank.

I think one of the Buchanan-Goodman break-in records has a flip side of just 
over a minute.

The shortest 45 side I can think of is Shel Silverstein's "26 Second Song". 
This came in handy when I was at a station where the commercials had to fit a 
clock pattern..I played it whenever I played Harry Chapin's "Taxi".

dl

yves francois wrote:
> andrew
> i would think about a minute and a half, some early rock and roll pop songs were about that long
> good question
> don't think any regular 10" issues were (generally) less than that
> all the best
> yves
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Andrew Homzy <homzy at vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
>> From: Andrew Homzy <homzy at vax2.concordia.ca>
>> Subject: [78-L] Shortest 78
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:20 PM
>> So what was the shortest amount of music issued on a
>> standard 10-inch  
>> 78?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrew Homzy, Montréal
>>
>>
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