[78-L] Length of jazz recordings

Don Cox doncox at enterprise.net
Wed Jul 10 03:38:27 PDT 2013


On 09/07/2013, Royal Pemberton wrote:

> Wasn't there a few Commodore 78s in the early 1940s that were part
> 1/part 2? Or did those records simply take a break at where they knew
> they were running out of time on a 12" side?
> 
Ellington - Tiger Rag - 1929 - spread over two sides
Reminiscing in Tempo - 1935 - four sides

I don't know if these were the earlist, but they must be among the
earliest.

Regards
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Don Cox
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