Re: [ARSCLIST] Can 78s sound better than LPs?

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
> I think some other guys would just splice-edit down to 3 minutes, similar
to what came to be common
> practice for rock in the mid and late 60's (ie keep the full
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" for the LP but
> edit out a few verses to fit a 4-minute 45RPM single).
>
This was mainly done for AM radio...whose commercial-content requirements
(ads paid, music didn't...) made 3 or 4 minute singles a necessity. In that
era,
FM stations (and the occasional late-night AM show) made a point of the fact
that they played "album-length versions!" (which were often paired with the
short versions on promo 45's).

Steven C. Barr