The Vox were all classical.
Roger
--- On Sat, 10/3/09, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Presence promo copies
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 4:25 AM
I read an article about 16 2/3 RPM LPs, I think in an old High Fidelity or HiFi Review. It was a
short fad, right? I think Prestige and some other jazz labels reissued very old mono titles in
discounted double-length records. If I recall the article correctly, Rudy Van Gelder was the guy who
cut those records, and he talked about how it was somewhat of a challenge but do-able. The reviewer
agreed that old mono jazz could successfully be reissued in that medium.
Anyone know how long that fad lasted and how many records were issued in that format?
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Nelson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Presence promo copies
The Seebug juke box company made a "library" unit that played 12" lps. The unit was designed to
play 33s or 16 2/3 rpm music discs.
16rpm 12" discs were released by Decca records, mostly bacground music type.
dnw
--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Presence promo copies
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 12:49 PM
> Hi Larry:
>
> That sounds like a cool toy! Wow, that must have been a
> 70's thing, the golden age of albums. When you sat down and
> listened to an album one side at a time. We're back to the
> pre-album days again in popular music, one song at a time.
>
> Music servers are slowly becoming a mainstream component.
> There will be a day when someone combines something like
> that into a genuine jukebox interface and they'll have
> themselves a nice niche product. There are already plenty of
> virtual jukebox interfaces, but I'm talking about the real
> thing, including the neon lighting and the pushbuttons.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry S Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Living Presence promo copies
>
>
> Tom,
> Do you know about LP jukeboxes? Not the kind
> that plays 7-inch 33-1/3 discs, but the type that plays
> full-sized 12-inch LPs. I've encountered only a
> couple, one in a long-gone restaurant near the Mizzou campus
> called the Agora House. Not only were the enchiladas
> good, for, I believe, a quarter, I could hear an entire side
> of 'The Doors" or "Surrealistic Pillow." Probably not
> the sort of thing you'd want to put your shaded dogs on, but
> if you had a Dynaflex re-issue of something, who
> cares? By the way, I think it had a Shure cartridge.
>
> Larry Miller
>
>
>
> For a long time, I had dreams of a classic 45-singles
> jukebox, but then when I started shopping for
> a well-restored one, it turned out they mostly sound like
> crap due to both mid-grade to low-grade
> phono pickups and also the fact that most singles sound
> like crap from Play One. So net-net, I
> decided that they're great for noisy bars and diners but
> not so much for focused listening at home.
> I admit still being thrilled when I come upon one that
> still works in a bar or diner. The first
> thing I do is feed it dollars so I can sample its contents.
> Nowadays, if you find it working, it's
> usually on its last legs and the records are circa early
> 1990's or earlier. No interest in or use
> for CD jukeboxes; I remember when those first came out,
> higher prices per play and less fun to use.
> Plus much less frequent switch-ins of music, at least in
> the upstate NY market, so the whole purpose
> of a jukebox was being defeated. It went from a
> music-discovery machine to an oldies and stale hits
> machine.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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