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

[Michael Biel]

From: Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>


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


That explains it.  I meant to put parentheses around EP to show it was
the abbreviation for those who's world revolves only around 78s and do
not know from those newfangled 45s and think they might just be smaller
United discs.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

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On 6/6/2010 3:55 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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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