[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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