[78-L] Shortest 78

[Andrea Walsh]

I know it wasn't a 78, it was an LP- but wasn't there a "Wit and Wisdom Of
Ronald Reagan" album released in the 80's that was completely blank on both
sides?

Andrea

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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