[78-L] Unusually long 78RPM sides

[Royal Pemberton]

So this record has the larger label size usually found on pre-1930 records,
not the smaller more or less 3" label first used on longer records and then
later adopted as standard?  Those grooves must be rather like those on a
Polydor 10" 78 I have from the early 1950s, a pair of medleys by Lale
Andersen.  Both sides are well over 5 minutes long, cut with variable
pitch, and with grooving fine enough that they could have easily got 6
minutes on each side.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:22 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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