In a message dated 9/18/2006 6:47:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Single sides were the early records that most companies made. After all, why give the customer a double measure for his money? Then, in the early 1900s, some rat-fik began making records with recordings on both sides. It wasn't long before the major companies had to go along with the two-sided thing. Later, many of the old single siders were re-pressed as two siders, so I understand. Many were also re-recorded in the electrical era on 2 sides. Wasn't Columbia the first major record company the first to press 2-sided records in 1908? I understand Victor quickly followed suit but maintained the Red Seals single-sided to about 1920 or so, to underscore exclusivity. My two needles worth, : ) Edward
