[78-L] Unusually long 78RPM sides

[Michael Biel]

From: Philip Carli <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
> 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

I'm surprised that nobody brought up the many 8-inch British labels like
Broadcast and Radio which played 10-inch length.  And of course when
they did issue actual 10-inch pressings they also were of extra long
length.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com   
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From: David Lennick [dlennick at sympatico.ca]
>> 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