[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 27, Issue 31 - Columbia EP numbering System was Wingy On Columbia

[Ron L'Herault]

Having had a 45 player at an early age (and destroying that center post, I
kind of remember what's in it.   However, the player, center post stuff etc
was part of a planned system.  The record size was not chosen merely to
provide an area to put in the changer mechanism.

Ron L

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System was Wingy On Columbia

The large hole was for the spindle on the RCA changer which had some of the
changing mechanism within it, that helped it have that very short change
cycle.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:

> I remember reading somewhere that the RCA 45 player was designed with a
> very
> quick changer to minimize interruption in long programs and that the large
> hole meant that music would not be played back from close to the center of
> the disk where the sound would deteriorate.
>
> Ron L
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Robert M.
> Bratcher
> Jr.
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> System was Wingy On Columbia
>
> Any idea why RCA, Columbia (& perhaps other companies in the 50's) put out
> classical on 45 rpm sets instead of just doing it on LP's? And yes I have
a
> few
> 45 rpm classical sets in my collection which I bought used years later
> after
>
> they were released.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nigel Burlinson <burlinson at orange.fr>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 8:21:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 27, Issue 31 - Columbia EP numbering
> System
> was Wingy On Columbia
>
> The A series of EP's below A.999 are generally derived from
> the MM series and are mostly classical box sets.
>
> >From A.1000 to about A.1120 they continue as Box sets
> but the catalog numbers bear no relation to an Lp or 78rpm  equivalent.
>
> The B. series began as the EP equivalent of items in the old 'C' series of
> 78rpm albums (up to about B.548 or so) but the C series had petered out
> by C.516/C.517/C.518 (Fess Parker)
>
> Beginning with B.1500 they are all single EP's and if the selections
> were:
> Classical... they took an "A" prefix
> Childrens.. they took an "J" prefix
> Country.....they took an "H" prefix
> all in the same number sequence.
>
> The highest # in this block is B.2157
>
> There is a separate block B.2500-2644 "Hall of Fame" series
> and for the "Country & Western Hall of Fame" series the
> numbers are B.2801-2837.
>
> Numbers between about B.672-1 and B.1568-3 (last issue)
> are derived from the equivalent CL "Pop" series;
> sometimes the whole album was issued as three
> separate EP's (B.1568-1-2-3 Mitch Miller), sometimes just
> a single EP was issued (B.1370-1 Charles Mingus)
>
> The numbers written thus:  B.15681, B.15682, B.13701)
>
> Nigel Burlinson
> burlinson at orange.fr
>
>
>
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