Re: [ARSCLIST] Blank grooves at end of a Capitol FDS lp

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [ARSCLIST] Blank grooves at end of a Capitol FDS lp
> Capitol P 8270, Felix Slatkin: Carnival of the Animals/Divertissement, has a
> band of blank grooves at the end of side 2, separated by 1/4 inch from the
last
> music track. Anyone know the purpose of this? Was it for the HiFi nut to check
> rumble or noise? There's no reference to it anywhere on the jacket, although
> the FDS blurb is displayed prominently and a paragraph in red points out that
> your cruddy equipment may not handle this here swell recording (my cruddy
> equipment handled it just fine). I don't recall seeing this blank track on
> other Capitols.
>
Perhaps it was intended to provide a summary of the intellectual content
of life in the nineteen-fifties...?!
:-)

Steven C. Barr
(I vuz dere, Sholly...?!)