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Curt A wrote:The 33 ⅓ record is what I am curious about. Was this an initial attempt to change the standard from 78 to 33? It has a Victor back like an early one sided red label record...

Victor issued several "long" playing records in the early 1930's. But they were not a huge success, commercially, because they requiered special playback equipment.

I have two of those records, each side plays about 10 minutes. Here's one of them.



https://app.box.com/s/y3t75h4keok4jyl1yi9t

I don't know the age of this one. Most likely post Orthophonic era.

That demo disc with Richard Crooks is from 1937.

Sean