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Thread #173083   Message #4197060
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
12-Feb-24 - 12:58 AM
Thread Name: Rhapsody In Blue at 100
Subject: RE: Rhapsody In Blue at 100
And just to frame all the expert opinions of that famous debut 100 years ago... nobody, no-body really knows exactly how long it ran or how it sounded played straight through without gaps.

That level of playback tech would not exist until the 1940s LP era. Every earlier recording is a "radio edit" style, cut-down short version. The shortest of them clocked in at just under three minutes... on a paper piano roll.