[78-L] re-issues

[Royal Pemberton]

When did LES AND MARY (Capitol W 577) come out?  It's 8 songs per side too.

On 7/5/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Thomas Stern wrote:
>> What were the first 8 track per side LPs ?
>
> Not claiming that these are the first, but RCA LPM 1364 (Duke Ellington: In
> a
> Mellotone) and LPM 1503 (Fats Waller: One Never Knows, Do One) have 8 tracks
> per side. Issued in 1956 and 1957 respectively. I don't know why I
> associated
> Grauer and Keepnews with these..they were producing RCA reissues, but on "X"
> and for the 10-volume alphabetical Encyclopedia of Jazz.
>
> The Hylton was slightly more generous than I thought..5 tracks on one side
> and
> 4 on the other.
>
> dl
>
>> I remember one of the Columbia Odyssey albums had 2 or 3 LPs with 6 cuts
>> per
>> side, the last disc with 8 per side - and a
>> note in the booklet indicating that advances in technology permitted
>> including more tracks.  Always seemed strange (maybe not
>> considering the precarious financial returns on these series -
>> re-mastering
>> might have been considered too expensive) they didn't
>> re-do the 6 track discs.
>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
>> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:50 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [78-L] re-issues
>>
>>
>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>> On 7/5/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Except at Victor where the first 12" pop albums contained a measly 5
>> tracks per side.
>>> I have the 1951 album BUNNY BERIGAN PLAYS AGAIN (RCA Victor LPT 1003,
>>> 12") and it only has 4 songs per side.  On the plus side, all the
>>> songs are presented in wonderfully un-futzed-with sound
>>> quality....quite like hearing them the way the 78s really sound,
>>> without the 78s' shortcomings.
>>> _____________________________________________
>>
>> I think the Jack Hylton album also had only 4 tracks per side, although
>> some
>> had been twelve-inch.
>>
>> Then Grauer and Keepnews came along and produced those great jazz reissues
>> on
>> RCA with 8 tracks per side, which became the norm for the Vintage series a
>> few
>> years later.
>>
>> dl
>>
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