[78-L] Fred Waring Christmas Album

[David Lennick]

Agreed, some of Decca's EPs can sound pretty good. My warning about editing is 
because the 6 minute maximum side length caused problems..I don't know if Decca 
ever tried to get 7 minutes onto a 45. Reissues from ten-inch LPs and 78 sets 
shouldn't require editing but when the EPs had to duplicate twelve-inch LPs, 
something often had to go, and of course the levels were going to be lower than 
for single sides.

Decca's first LPs were cut and pressed by Columbia, interestingly enough.

dl

Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> David,
> 
> With regard to Decca, I am partial to their EP configurations during the
> early LP days. I have no idea what they were pressing their LPs on, but I
> once won complete sets of two Victor Young LPs on EP and the sound was
> glorious (yes, they were pressed on vinyl). One of them subsequently was
> issued on Mike Dutton's Vocalion label, but the other one .....(well, I
> still have my tape).
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
> 
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:09 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> Decca probably left the two sides as originally recorded, with no
>> pause..they
>> weren't noted for trying innovative joins. "Munchkinland" on the Wizard of
>> Oz
>> LP was a two-parter as well and even when I had that LP at the age of 7, I
>> thought that was a strange thing to do in the middle of a track.
>>
>> The EP is PROBABLY the same as the 4-disc set since nothing would have run
>> long, but EP sets are notorious for being edited.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>