[78-L] Unusually long 78RPM sides

[David Lennick]

Forgot to mention that this is a ten-incher, Columbia 5341.

There will now be a pause for Mike Biel to say "It just SEEMS like ten minutes."

On 11/7/2011 3:19 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> We've discussed this many times, and double-length 78 playing times were common
> in the 50s..as well as in the early 30s with Hit Of The Week and Columbia's
> Longer Playing Records. But I've never encountered an English Columbia side
> from the 1920s that pushes 10 minutes until now, especially since UK Columbia
> in particular went to rather shorter sides when electrical recording came in
> (causing Holst to conduct his Planets much faster than he had on the acoustical
> version). A pair of electioneering speeches by Ramsay MacDonald in 1929 runs
> 4:50 and 4:56 and they didn't have to shrink the labels.
>
> dl
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