[78-L] Length of jazz recordings

[David Lennick]

Not that there's any comparison with actual jazz, but Edison Diamond Discs and 
later Hit of the Weeks could hold close to 5 minutes and many of them should 
have stopped at 3. Ditto that twelve-inch George Olsen Columbia.

dl

On 7/11/2013 10:19 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Perhaps Shaw was right about Eddie on both fronts.  I am hard pressed to recall any Eddie Condon solos that stand out in any way.  "It's not how long you make it, it's how you make it long," said the old smokes TV ad.
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> There is also a quote/paraphrase from Earl Hines somewhere in The Swing Era (Time-Life book&  record set, 1971) that the three minute limit always stimulated him to give it his best shot without wasting time.  I think in that same set there was also a reference to that topic in a discussion of the rise of the LP and some/one of the older guys said much the same.
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> Rodger
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> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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>   From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
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> I mentioned Eddie's Bix comment to Artie Shaw and he said, "Poor Eddie. He must have been really hard up."
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> Cary
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> On Jul 11, 2013, at 10:27 AM, "Julian Vein"<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>  wrote:
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>> On 11/07/13 16:08, David Weiner wrote:
>>> Eddie Condon once said that making 3-minute records was like making love
>>> on an escalator and having to finish by the time you got to the top!
>>>
>>> Dave Weiner
>> ======================
>> Eddie reduced many of his responses to sexual references ("Bix's playing
>> is like a girl saying 'yes'"). Perhaps his name should've have been
>> Eddie Condom? A former Chief Constable in London called Sir Paul Condon
>> has his name pronounced by broadcasters with the emphasis on the second
>> syllable and sounding like that! Eddie's name was usually pronounced
>> like "CONden".
>>
>>        Julian Vein
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