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

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Your seat on the Department of Redundancy Department is what I was 
commenting on.
Extended Play Extended Play records? Thus 4 tracks per side instead of 
two? Get it?
Sheesh.
Mal

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On 6/6/2010 3:55 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Malcolm Rockwell<malcolm at 78data.com>
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>> 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
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> On 6/5/2010 4:53 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
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>> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr."<bratcher at pdq.net>
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>>      
>>>> 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>
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>>> 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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