[78-L] Shortest 78 ^

[David Lennick]

There was "A Evening with Marcel Marceaux" (deliberately misspelled) which was 
two sides of silence ending with rapturous applause, and John Denver sang "The 
Ballad of Spiro Agnew" and "The Ballad of Richard Nixon", one of which was a 
blank track, but I'm not aware of a Reagan blank disc.

dl

Andrea Walsh wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>