Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> steven c wrote:
> > > Weren't those so-called "albums" actually 33RPM 7" discs containing 3
> > tracks per
> > > side? I also have a number of 33rpm juke box singles with ONE stereo
track
> > per
> > > side, along with 7-inch album slicks to display in the juke box. I'm
sure
> > > patrons couldn't wait to listen to Roger Williams and the Ray Charles
> > Singers in
> > > stereo while they downed their cheeseburgers. DL
> > >
> > True...again IIRC! You put in a quarter instead of a dime, and you
> > could play three tracks off of a "hit"(?) album instead of a single
> > record...
> > ...stevenc
> One thing I remember hearing about but never actually encountered was
"Three
> Minutes of Silence". Were there actually discs with blank grooves made for
this
> purpose? Aside from blank-groove pressings used as flip sides on promos,
the
> "Marcel Marceau" LP (which was 18 minutes of silence followed by 2 minutes
of
> applause on each side) and Jim Tuck's "Nothing Record" (which not only had
blank
> grooves, it had titles and separate tracks).
>
> Wonder if the "3 Minutes of Silence" was cut in stereo? Wonder what it
sounded
> like when it began to wear out? Wonder if John Cage sued over the editing
of his
> "4'33"?
>
> Inquiring minds have nothing better to do.
>
Well, I recall having seen a record (but not the details thereof) that
had sound on one side, and blank grooves on the other...so if one played
the "B side" one got nothing but silence (except for the shellac noise...)

Steven C. Barr