[78-L] Did The English Take Better Care Of Their Records?

[David Lennick]

The ten-inch LP lasted much longer in Europe as well, and sometimes contained material dropped for the American release. A couple of years ago I found a ten-incher of Khachaturian conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, containing one piece that wasn't on the 12-inch Angel LP, "In Memoriam". And Arthur Wilkinson's "Beatle Cracker Suite" was a mono 45 EP in England, not issued there in any other format as far as I know. Lucky Canadians got it as a stereo LP from Capitol over here.

 

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> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:53:02 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Did The English Take Better Care Of Their Records?
> 
> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
> >> The English 45's might be in better shape but I honestly don't 
> >> know if they are or not as I really don't look for English 45 rpm 
> >> issues of American records although I do own a few from the 60's & 70's.
> 
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> > No...45's were primarily owned by teen-agers...who took them to
> > friends' houses as well as "record hops"...but who DIDN'T take a
> > lot of care of them, especially the songs on them were no longer "hits!"
> 
> 45s were slightly different in England than in the U.S. -- at least as
> far as Extended Play EPs were concerned. The era of the E.P. in the
> U.S. was nearly over by the early 60s, but in England that format was
> still going strong. Most of the time in the U.S. the E.P. duplicated
> what was issued on LPs, but in England many E.P. had unique material not
> available in other formats. Thus these would be treated with as much
> respect as their LPs would. There are many classical and operatic
> recordings in England that were on microgroove only on E.P., and some
> pop compilations were also mainly on E.P. 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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