[78-L] RCA Victor Double Feature series -- 46-xxxx

agp agp2176 at verizon.net
Fri Jun 24 15:24:54 PDT 2011


Continuing RCA Victor questions, over at Glenn Longwell's site he has 
an RCA Victor disk in a series called 'Double Feature' -- catalogue 
46-0002. The A side looks to be Al Goodman with two tracks --The Girl 
that I Marry and  Who Do You Love I Hope.

I'm curious about this series and don't see any listing for it at Steve's site.

I did some looking in Billboard back issues and the only mention I 
saw of a Double Feature series was on in 1948/1949 on Universal 
Records. They used a technique they called 'Quality Control' (an odd 
name) to jam 5 minutes a side, with a pitch of 132 grooves per inch 
over the standard 96 (I think). It was two song, and gap or 5 seconds.

Supposedly the big deal was acceptance by jukeboxes requiring a 
retrofit thingie (electric eye!) to get you the track you wanted and 
ONLY that track. The benefit to jukeboxers was you could double the 
songs in the box and in theory increase the collection of nickles. In 
practice this probably didn't work as give the constraints of time 
and being able to only to listen to one song at a time!

In any event, I could find any info on RCA's Double Feature series. 
Any one know about it

T



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