Anyone ever heard of 16 rpm albums before? I ran across one today while researching baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams:
This was news to me. I'd never seen one before, and not too many tables would play one. But it turns out there are more of them than I would've thought:
http://www.16rpm.com/
i guess it was a marketing gimmick ("Get 1-1/2 hours on an LP!") that never caught on. The sound was probably pretty bad, and very few people could even play them.
Incidentally, side one of the Pepper Adams album above was reissued as "Dakar" under John Coltrane's name, and side two as "Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes With French Horns." Funny that none of the original session leaders are even mentioned.
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