The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Col. 9572A times at 4:17; 50103-D times at 4:27 (actual running time of the music, as timed on my Telechron 1H1308). Both of these versions have the same musical content as my 35667, which times at 4:22. Avakian states in his liner notes that the short version (which is evidently not the version on my copy of 35667 from album C-29) was achieved by "merely dropping the florid introduction." The intro. on 50103-D is approx. 48 seconds long. What is the timing on a truncated version of 35667, I wonder? The math tells us that it should be around 3:30, which is close enough to phonojim's 3:35 ("close enough for jazz," as musicians say!) to indicate that we're on the right track in the ballpark here, to mix a few metaphors.

Thanks, everyone, for all the input. "Mystery" solved (disclaimer: I'm not raising the topic of slightly differing lengths of all the various takes, since I don't have that information at hand; assuming that they are not due to changes in musical content, such discrepancies are almost always the result of tempo fluctuations in the recording studio, or slight differences in playback speeds on our machines.)