> [Original Message]
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: 9/19/2006 2:27:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Some 'interesting' Victor 10 inch 78's?
>
>
> 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
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