[78-L] ANTA album of Stars (Decca)

[David Lennick]

On 12/30/2011 10:54 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Thomas Stern"<sternth at attglobal.net>
>> Was the SECOND Volume of this recording released on 78rpm (the LP was DL 9009) ???
>> [Volume ONE (DL 9002) was issued on 4 12" 78s in album DAU 730.]
>> Thanks! Happy New Year, Thomas.
>
> The 1953 Decca catalog only lists the first one having a 78 album issue
> -- surprising that there were no 45 issues for either.  Ruppli also
> lists only the first with a 78 set.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
They'd have had to break up the sides for 45s..six and a half minute twelve 
inch sides were possible on 12" Decca 78s by this time but I don't know if 
anyone had cut a 45 longer than 5:15 or 5:30. Volume 2 was recorded in 1950 and 
I think even those tracks were too long for 78s, or Decca had noticed that 
nobody bought the 78 issues of Death Of A Salesman or The Consul.

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