[78-L] re-issues

[David Lennick]

Is that one that's claimed as "Two Complete Albums"? Capitol did quite a few of 
those.

Capitol also issued many of its classical albums in ten- and twelve-inch 
format, putting single works on the ten-inchers and combining them on twelve. 
These were issued simultaneously and the numbers are consecutive.

Columbia tried double formatting for a while..Victor Borge's Comedy In Music 
was issued as one twelve-inch and two ten-inch discs. A few other CLs were done 
this way, but it didn't last long and the ten-inchers rarely turn up.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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.
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>