[78-L] RCA Victor Double Feature series -- 46-xxxx

[David Lennick]

Interesting..I don't remember the posting about the double-track Double Feature 
issues, but that explains the really wide band separating the tracks.

As for the Victor K- albums, they did indeed change the color between black and 
teal. I've seen a few albums such as "Allegro" in both colors.

dl

On 3/3/2012 10:28 AM, Glenn Longwell wrote:
> Coming back to this...
> I came across some more of these 45-xxxx series this past week.  Some were in the 0015-0018 range and were the black label.  The others were 0041-0045 (album K 11) but were a blue label.  Just pointing out that the label either changed color at some point or just for this album - in case anyone cares.
> Glenn
>
> --- On Fri, 6/24/11, J. E. Knox<rojoknox at metroeast.org>  wrote:
>
> From: J. E. Knox<rojoknox at metroeast.org>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] RCA Victor Double Feature series --  46-xxxx
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 6:56 PM
>
> Greetings from FixitLand!
>
> agp wrote:
>
>> Continuing RCA Victor questions, over at Glenn Longwell's site he has
>> an RCA Victor disk in a series called 'Double Feature' -- catalogue
>> 46-0002. The A side looks to be Al Goodman with two tracks --The Girl
>> that I Marry and  Who Do You Love I Hope.
>>
>> I'm curious about this series and don't see any listing for it at
>> Steve's site.
>>
>> I did some looking in Billboard back issues and the only mention I
>> saw of a Double Feature series was on in 1948/1949 on Universal
>> Records. They used a technique they called 'Quality Control' (an odd
>> name) to jam 5 minutes a side, with a pitch of 132 grooves per inch
>> over the standard 96 (I think). It was two song, and gap or 5 seconds.
>>
>> Supposedly the big deal was acceptance by jukeboxes requiring a
>> retrofit thingie (electric eye!) to get you the track you wanted and
>> ONLY that track. The benefit to jukeboxers was you could double the
>> songs in the box and in theory increase the collection of nickles. In
>> practice this probably didn't work as give the constraints of time
>> and being able to only to listen to one song at a time!
>>
>> In any event, I could find any info on RCA's Double Feature series.
>> Any one know about it
>
> RCA Victor's "Double Feature" series (45-0xxx on 10-inch, 46-0xxx on
> 12-inch) originally "doubled" the featured artists (rather than
> offering extended playing time or anything like that). For example,
> the common 45-0002 combined Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington; side A
> was "The Minor Goes Muggin', Duke Ellington featured with Tommy
> Dorsey and his Orchestra, while side B was "Tonight I Shall Sleep",
> Tommy Dorsey featured with Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra.
> Series started at 45-0000 (which I have, but don't recall here at
> work), and ran only a couple years or so. Some of them were issued in
> albums, either in the P-xxx popular series or in a K-xx series of
> "original cast" albums. I checked Ty's site for a listing but it
> appears they aren't in the Abrams Files. Now that I think of it,
> 45-0000 is a Victor, rather than RCA Victor, as are the first eight
> or 10 or so, meaning the series started late in 1945. I haven't
> looked at those records in some time.
>
> The 45-xxxx series was partitioned a few years later, and the 45-5xxx
> series was assigned to children's records. There are Spike Jones
> items in that series.
>
> Here's a link to a 1948 Billboard RCA Victor ad listing a few of the
> 45-00xx Double Feature records:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6hdl3hk
>
> Take care,
>
>
> J. E. Knox "The Victor Freak"
>
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