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

[Michael Biel]

From: Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
> You mean to say there were 4 tracks per side, instead of two,
> on those 45rpm Extended Play EPs?? Be exactly precise.
> Or precisely exact. Up to you.  Mal

What in the world would make you think that I was saying there were four
tracks on each side of an English EP??????????????  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  




On 6/5/2010 4:53 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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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