[78-L] Shortest 78

[Glenn Longwell]

I clocked this Pershing speech at 29 seconds.
 
Most of these though are records that at least have another side to them.  Going through a collection I brought home recently I happened across a Pol Plancon record yesterday that was about 90 seconds.  While not short compared to what we've discussed here, this Red Seal Victor is only one sided, the grooves only covered half of that one side and cost $2 new.  So these Red Seals were the worst for amount of music per dollar.  Having said that I know there were Red Seals that cost a lot more so the ratio would be even worse.


--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Shortest 78
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 9:03 PM

Somewhere on the 'Net I heard a dub of the Pershing record; I think it
was only 31 seconds or so.

On 2/18/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I think the General Pershing disc on Nation's Forum that I cited
earlier is
> even briefer.
>
> dl
>
> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> A number of the records mentioned wouldn't qualify as the shortest
78,
>> first of all because, as has been mentioned, they aren't 78s and
secondly,
>> if they have a 30 minute silent groove then the record is 30 minutes
long.
>>  If the disc has no groove, then it's not a record at all,
it's just a
>> plate.
>>
>> The shortest 78 I ever came across is a speech by Leo Tolstoy.  That
10
>> inch record has about an inch, (2.2 cms.) of groove area and the rest
of
>> the surface has the signature of Tolstoy.  It plays for about 47
seconds.
>>
>> db
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