There was a label: D&R, which was supposed to have meant: "Double and Reversible" I read somewhere that it was the first double sided record. Nothing nto quote, though.
> [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 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
