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From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
> Back in ye really olde days, 78
> era, timekeeping was important so as not to run out of wax.
>
I have a very few 78's on which part of a line...usually four or
eight bars...has "gone missing" in the last chorus! I often have
visions of a "recording director" somehow frantically trying to
signal "Hey! Wrap it up, guys...I'm running out of room!"

Steven C. Barr