[78-L] 16 2/3 RPM

[Royal Pemberton]

Most infamously were the series of sermon albums made by Jimmy Swaggart in
the late 1960s/early 1970s that were 16 2/3 rpm.  I have one of them,
pressed by RCA's custom division (and it feels like a typical Dynaflop
pressing of the very early 1970s).


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:20 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> For sure..record players had 16 on them for years in the 50s and probably
> into
> the 70s, since Listening Library lp sets were in circulation in public
> libraries for that long a time.
>
> dl
>
> On 8/5/2013 7:14 PM, Sammy Jones wrote:
> > Thanks for the info.  I've passed it along...
> >
> > Was 16 2/3 ever available as a consumer format except for those in-car
> > turntable systems?
> >
> > Sammy Jones
> >
> > David Lennick wrote:
> >> 16 2/3 was used for spoken word recordings as well as for some really
> >> long-playing jazz and popular albums from about 1952 (even some
> classical,
> >> I
> >> think) but certainly not for radio transcriptions. However, Victor
> >> recorded a
> >> few discs at 16 in the early 30s, and these are in the ARSC discography
> of
> >> 33rpm masters. So the speed must have existed at the time. The Talking
> >> Books of
> >> the 30s played at 33rpm although England cut them at 24.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 8/5/2013 1:09 PM, Sammy Jones wrote:
> >>> Somebody over on the International Jack Benn Fan Club Facebook page
> asked
> >>> me if I had any radio transcriptions cut at 16 RPM.  I told him I did
> >>> not, and that 16 would be a pretty uncommon speed for radio recordings.
> >>>
> >>> He said when he worked at a radio station they had Gates turntables
> that
> >>> could play at 16, and the speed was marked "transcriptions."  What
> would
> >>> have been the purpose of that?  Compatability for recorded books for
> the
> >>> blind?
> >>>
> >>> I'm reminded that there were records intended for in-car use cut at 16
> >>> 2/3...
> >>>
> >>> DL, were those Sherlock Holmes radio shows/talking books from the early
> >>> '30s cut at 16 2/3?
> >>>
> >>> Sammy Jones
> >>
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