[78-L] Unusually long 78RPM sides

[Philip Carli]

The English seemed to have been more interested in longer sides in general -- I've mentioned the National Gramophone Co.'s Marathon discs from the mid-teens before, which were vertical-cut and could run up to 8 minutes/side in the 12" size.  They sound very good as well.  PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of David Lennick [dlennick at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:19 PM
To: 78L
Subject: [78-L] Unusually long 78RPM sides

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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