[78-L] Shortest 78

[Erwin Kluwer]

"Esultate" by Francesco Tamgano on a 12 inch !!  disc: with a piano
introduction of 22 seconds and a vocal portion of 44 seconds!

It was issued with the special (read; high) celebrity price and sold pretty
well...

Erwin

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:44 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> 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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