[78-L] Shortest 78

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 18:56:14 PST 2009


Didn't Les Paul and Mary Ford have a two second B side on one of their
Capitol singles in the 1950s?

On 2/13/09, Erwin Kluwer <ekluwer at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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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