[78-L] Length of Durium Hit of the Weed recordings?

[David Lennick]

Depends on the kind of weed, man....

Exhale.

(Couldn't resist!)

And yes, Hit of the Weeks began to run well over 4 minutes once they went into 
the letter+number system of cataloguing.

dl

On 1/29/2012 5:15 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> I'll start with, Thank You to all who suggested how to play a warped,
> excellent condition Durium paper recording.
> All the advice I got was helpful. Clothespins popped off, and other
> solutions didn't quite work. What did work, was
> clamping the disc down overnight with a 10" reel to reel hub, which took
> out most of the warp. Then, I recorded it. Seemed a little slow, but not
> bad. When the recording reached five minutes, I wondered what's going on
> here. How can this paper disc be so long?
>
> Then, concerning long playing time for 78s, today's 78-l posting provides
> the following about squeezing music onto a 78 rpm recording:
>
> "Not that difficult if they filtered the bass and used a tight groove
> pitch. Hit of the Weeks ran over 5 minutes in the last year, and last week
> I sold an ARC Theatre Use Record from 1931 that played over 5'."  dl
>
> Does anyone know the actual time of the Vernon Dalhart's, "Letter Edged in
> Black, on Durium, #9-2. Even shortened to what I think is pretty close to
> actual time it is well over four minutes, and now I'm thinking maybe the
> five minute recording was really five minutes. Help!
>
> Dennis
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