----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"Quintuplets' Lullaby" by Bill Barry is a prime example.Back in ye really olde days, 78 era, timekeeping was important so as not to run out of wax.
I have a very few 78's on which part of a line...usually four or eight bars...has "gone missing" in the last chorus! I often have visions of a "recording director" somehow frantically trying to signal "Hey! Wrap it up, guys...I'm running out of room!"
Steven C. Barr