[78-L] Unusually long 78RPM sides

[David Lennick]

On 11/7/2011 5:51 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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

No more than 4 minutes though, and with mini-labels. These Columbia sides could 
have gone another half minute.
dl
> ________________________________________
> 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
>
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