[78-L] Early 2LP Album 1950

[David Lennick]

Vanguard was using this format as late as 1953..just looked at "May Night", 3 
lps in fold-over pockets, 78 type album. The libretto was printed in 1953.

dl

On 2/23/2013 9:01 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
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> IIRC, An Evening with Will Shakespeare issued by THEATRE MASTERWORKS was in that format as originally released,
> later as a box set and reissued by Continental.
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> Best wishes, Thomas.
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> Vox and Vanguard also used that format into the early 50s. Columbia and Decca
> went to box sets with the pages attached to a dowel post by some weird kind of
> paper that dried out, shrank, cracked, broke, disintegrated or whatever.
>
> dl
>
> On 2/23/2013 7:25 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
>> Ebay 180850806855
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> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bruckner-Sym-6-A-min-Vienna-Swoboda-1950-Westminster-WL-5055-6-2-LP-Set-EXC-/180850806855?pt=Music_on_Viny
> l&hash=item2a1b8c5047&nma=true&si=kz3%252FosxMAVLOCpfLvyPAVfPR5Qw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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>> shows a 1950 2LP album (Bruckner on Westminster),
>> which still has the layout of a 78rpm album.
>> Can't remember if I have seen such before.
>>
>> han enderman